Once again this past week we’ve been busy scanning across the internet to find the latest information and Open University courses. This week we learn how GTA creators Rockstar found themselves in hot water over a coffee error, join in to the ‘Night of the Scientists’ and learn how poverty could be ended in just 15 years. Remember, if there’s a free course or bit of news on the agenda then hopefully we will pick it up and stick it on the next Open University news.

The Open University in Ra’anana will make it possible to sense how people with disabilities feel every day, and watch a “mental mathematics” act. Guests are invited to pick the mind of researchers during a ‘Night of the Scientists’.

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Getting into hot water over hot coffee. Why did Rockstar have to pay out more than $20 million in legal fees for some hidden code left in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas?

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Don’t Panic: How to end poverty in 15 years. The legendary statistical showman Professor Hans Rosling returns with a feast of facts and figures as he examines the extraordinary target the world commits to this week – to eradicate extreme poverty worldwide.

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