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Posted by: Rob Ashton
30 / 01 / 23
If you’re ever feeling down about what you’ve achieved in life, this surprising fact might cheer you up. You managed to rewire your own brain before you were ten years old. There – feel better now? You should. Mozart may have composed his first symphony when he was eight, but he has nothing on you. […]
Posted by: Jessica Swales
08 / 06 / 17
The ‘Face with Tears of Joy’ emoji. Whether you love it or scorn it, you’re probably familiar with its ecstatic expression. You might even know that this symbol was crowned the Oxford Dictionaries Word (yes, word) of the Year 2015 – and is still the most popular emoji used today. But is it appropriate to […]
Posted by: Catie Holdridge
08 / 05 / 17
Is e-learning really in a perilous state? There are some who are suggesting its death knell has all but rung. And you might believe it too, if you saw the provocative LinkedIn Pulse post entitled ‘RIP online learning …?’. Its author, Laura Overton, founder of learning and development advisory service Towards Maturity, had asked LinkedIn […]
06 / 04 / 17
If you’re not yet using a chat system to collaborate with your colleagues at work, you probably will be soon. Apps like Slack (the most popular) are rapidly redefining how we communicate. And the market for such tools was estimated at a staggering $4.5 billion last year. But do they actually make life better for […]
Posted by: Doug Nel
21 / 03 / 17
In the 1991 blockbuster Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the time-travelling Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) reveals in deadpan tones how artificial intelligence (AI) put in charge of America’s weapons will deliberately trigger nuclear Armageddon. ‘The system goes online August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defence. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It […]
Posted by: Paul Thomas
09 / 02 / 17
What is a full stop (period) for? Well, surely it’s how we tell one sentence has ended and a new one is about to begin. To many people, that would seem straightforward enough. But could there actually be a more sinister meaning lurking behind this small, seemingly innocent piece of punctuation? ‘Punctuation mark may be […]
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