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  1. Bauhausworld: The Utopia (2019)

    Director
    Lydia Ranke
    Subject
    Architecture; Design

    How has the Bauhaus school of architecture and design, Germany’s best-known art school, shaped the world we live in today? This is a three-part documentary to mark the 100th anniversary of the opening of...

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  2. Bauhausworld: The Effect (2019)

    Director
    Lydia Ranke
    Subject
    Architecture; Design

    How has the Bauhaus school of architecture and design, Germany’s best-known art school, shaped the world we live in today? This is a three-part documentary to mark the 100th anniversary of the opening of...

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  3. Speech Processing: How to Wreck a Nice Peach (2018)

    Subject
    Information technology

    Alexa, Siri and Cortana are among a number of voice-enabled digital assistants that can not only speak to us but understand us. Sci-fi films had talking computers many years ago. Why has it taken so long to...

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  4. Deep Learning: Miracle or Snake Oil? (2018)

    Subject
    Information technology

    Machine Learning has had several excitements over the years with machines that are modelled on the human brain. The invention of the perceptron and artificial neural networks were followed by intense...

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  5. It from Bit: The Science of Information (2018)

    Subject
    Information technology

    Physicist John Wheeler asked the famous ‘It from bit?' question: what if at its heart the universe is not a collection of particles, forces and fields but rather a collection of bits? If this is true, it...

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  6. I’m Dyslexic (2018)

    Director
    Thom Davies
    Subject
    Education

    Documentary for school age dyslexics. Being dyslexic himself, this is the documentary filmmaker Thom Davies wishes he could have seen at that age: a positive and upbeat mix of comic sketches, animation and...

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  7. Health, Safety and Environment Test for Operatives and Specialists 2018 (2018)

    Subject
    Civil Engineering & Building; FE; Health & safety
    Distribution
    Sale, CD-ROM, £13.75

    Revision material to prepare for and sit the CITB Health, safety and environment test for operatives and specialists. Content has been updated for 2018 to reflect industry and legislation changes alongside...

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  8. Epidemics, Pandemics and How to Control Them (2018)

    Subject
    Medical sciences

    Some infections come in repeated epidemic waves, others are new to human populations. A known human threat such as influenza may mutate or a new infection jumps the species barrier from animals to humans:...

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  9. Becoming (2018)

    Director
    Jan van Ijken
    Subject
    Biology

    A short film about the genesis of animal life. In great microscopic detail, we see the ‘making of’ an Alpine Newt in its transparant egg from the first cell division to hatching. A single cell is...

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  10. All That is Solid Melts into Air: The Politics of Hope in a Time of Fragility (2018)

    Subject
    Politics & government; Social sciences
    Distribution
    Audio (Download)

    Right wing populism stalks Europe and has a representative in the White House. Our politics are destabilised by uncertainty while our economies are undermined by uncertainty. In this podcast, journalist Gary...

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