Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2011 - Episode 4: Sex, Drugs, the Internet and Juries Is it true that juries rarely convict defendants in rape cases and are more likely to convict ethnic minority defendants than White defendants? And why can’t jurors resist going home at night and googling the defendant or tweeting about the case – against the express instructions of the judge. This lecture reveals the truth behind a number of widely held beliefs about juries in this country and examines why the internet may now be the biggest threat to our jury system. Vintage Podcasts - Lunch Hour Lectures

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9/12/2023

We are promised a decentralized future online, particularly thanks to the diffusion of blockchain technology (e.g., via cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and DAOs). But what is decentralization exactly, and how can we tell how decentralized a given digital platform is? Is Instagram more decentralized than TikTok, or Bitcoin more than Ethereum? In this interactive session JP Vergne will provide an overview of these issues and offer some counter-intuitive answers.

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UCL has launched an online tool to help people whose sight has been damaged by stroke to learn to read again. A medical and technological collaboration between the UCL Institute of Neurology and UCL's Multimedia team has developed 'Read Right', a therapeutic website designed to help people with Hemianopic Alexia (HA) to improve and test their reading ability from their own homes. Read-Right Therapy Website: https://www.readright.ucl.ac.uk

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