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					<description><![CDATA[Smart phones are an important part of all our lives. But are we controlling them – or are they controlling us? A group of students at Aldridge University Technical Collage @MediaCity in the UK volunteered for a week-long experiment to live without their phones to find out. This film looks at their experiences of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Does what we eat affect how we think and learn? The fourth film in the series looks at the recent evidence from experimental and longitudinal studies suggesting how a combination of ultra-processed food and increasingly inactive lifestyles are damaging brain development and function – and impacting on our ability to learn and remember. So how [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Brain Explained: 4. Food For Thought?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The fourth film in The Brain Explained series looks at the relationship between brain function, diet and exercise using expert commentary by neuroscientist&#160;Dr Guy Sutton,&#160;Director of&#160;Medical Biology Interactive&#160;– a name that will be very familiar to teachers and students of A-level Psychology. It’s well-known that a processed fast-food diet and sedentary lifestyle are not good [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Conversation with Claude</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 11:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago a couple of AI-related things caught my attention. The first was a report that in some ChatGPT conversations the AI was convinced it was “a goblin” and responded to all enquiries accordingly. The second was that Richard Dawkins, the well-known evolutionary biologist, concluded that, after conversing with Anthropic&#8217;s Claude and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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