News and coming events

• Nymbl - An ACC app to help to reduce your chances of falls

• Short Internet Safety Video from Netsafe - Spot the Scam
• Short Internet Safety Video from Netsafe - Tips for safer Social Media
• Short Internet Safety Video from Netsafe - Two factor authentication
• Internet Safety Advice from Netsafe - Staying Connected
• Internet Safety Advice from Netsafe - Secure Your On-Line Devices
• Internet Safety Advice from Netsafe - User Friendly Devices
• Internet Safety Advice from Netsafe - Shopping, Banking etc
• Internet Safety Advice from Netsafe - Spot a SCAM
• Internet Safety Advice from Netsafe - Glossary

• Lunchtime Music in May at First Church

• Inaugural Professorial Lectures 2024

• Artificial intelligence: Four debates to expect in 2024

• Questions about language models like ChatGPT

• Sunday TV Programme - Inside Milton Prison

• Middle East Conflict - an explainer

• Bugs capable of recycling plastic? Guardian article

Call For Volunteers

Friends of the Medical School

U3A Members are exactly the right group to help the trainee doctors in their studies. “Friends” help students with interviewing and sharing experiences about coping with situations - of which we all have much know-how by this time in our lives.

• Please have a look at the poster here
• Register Here

Volunteers Wanted for Research Projects at University

• Chronic Back Pain Study

Recruiting volunteers now...

• Knee Osteoarthritis - Physiotherapy and anti-inflammatories may be better when used together
• Find out more about the study

• Sleep Napping Study - Please see the Poster
• Sleep Napping Study - Please see the Information Sheet

Volunteers Wanted for the Hospice

• Further information here

Supporting People in times of Stress and Crisis

• How to Cope following a Natural Disaster
• Tips for supporting family friends and colleagues
• Supporting Children after a Natural Disaster
• Building Resilience
• Coping with Anxiety
• Dealing with Grief

Help from National Library for Dealing with Damp Items

• From the National Preservation Office
• Caring for Collections
• From Australian Librarians - including taking photographs and documenting for insurance purposes

Lectures via Podcast or Video

• Stephen Fry on How to use AI as a force for good September 2023
• Going Infinite, by Michael Lewis Available to 8th November - BBC podcast review
• A 1955 interview with J Robert Oppenheimer and Edward R. Murrow
• A 1964 lecture by Robert Oppenheimer
• A 1965 CBS Interview with R. Oppenheimer
• Alexander Gillespie of Waikato University, reported in The Conversation
• Why AI is Incredibly Smart—and Shockingly Stupid
• Shakespeare by Numbers
• Dealing with Chatbots
• North Korea, The Triad Connection
• Discussion on the War in Ukraine
• Otago Medical School - Lectures Past
• Towards Net Zero - Excellent BBC Series
• Collapse of Globalisation? Peter Zeihan in conversation with Jesse Mulligan
• James Webb Super Space Telescope pictures released
• Lecture on Remarkable History of Afghanistan - Part 1
• Lecture on Remarkable History of Afghanistan - Part 2
• Beethoven’s Ninth: Symphony for the World (be sure to turn captions off)
• The power of New Zealand’s Alpine Fault
• Acast - Wide range of podcasts
• The Economist - Wide range of podcasts
• Intelligence Squared - a wide range of topics on video
• BBC Reith Lectures - podcast
• BBC - In Our Time - Melvyn Bragg - podcast
• BBC Reel - wide range of short film clips
• Pandemics - Origin of the Black Death
• AI for Speech Improvemnt
• Three things to know about Long Covid
• Is our science being contaminated by commercial interests?
• Experiment with Macaw - a high-performance question-answering (QA) model