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One of the most ambitious and exciting scientific theories ever posed -- one that may be the long-sought "Theory of Everything" - gets a masterful and lavishly animated explanation that will...
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Incorporating illuminating historical background and examples, this book brings together basic concepts from geometry, algebra, trigonometry, and calculus to uncover the ellipse as the shape of a planet's orbit around the sun.
The Emotion Machine
By creating their own paper ‘robot face’, students learn about how high-level language is translated into low-level machine instructions. The resource, created by Paul Curzon and Peter McOwan of the CS4FN team, covers sequencing in programs, compilers and interpreters. A detailed instruction sheet guides the...
The Emotional Computer
Can computers understand emotions? Can computers express emotions? Can they feel emotions? This video, from the University of Cambridge, examines the research of Professor Peter Robinson exploring how emotions can be used to improve interaction between humans and computers.
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The discovery of mirror neurons has caused an unparalleled wave of excitement among scientists. This book describes the key experiments that make us realise just how deeply this discovery changes our understanding of human nature, showing we are not mere individuals but an inter-connected, social mind.
The enactment of lesson study by science teachers in English schools
Published in May 2016, this empirical study explores the enactment of Japanese Lesson Study by science teachers in four secondary schools in England. The aim of the study is to develop a deeper understanding of Lesson Study (LS) as a model of teacher professional development (PD). Lesson Study (jugyou kenkyuu)...
Will fundamental science come to an end and are there ultimate limits to what we can know about the Universe? This book looks at the biggest questions of science - physics at or beyond the Big Bang; quantum mechanics; consciousness - to weigh up whether they might one day be solved. A celebration of science,...
This book calls for the responsible and informed stewardship of the human genome. It provides an overview of what we do and do not know about human genetics looking at some of the complex, yet largely unexplored, issues we must be most careful about as we move into an era of increasing numbers of parents exercising...