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Investigating environmental futures through speculative design
Society, Politics & Law

Investigating environmental futures through speculative design

...Technology in the Netherlands. The workshop brought together academics and designers from various disciplines to explore how ‘thinking through making’ might allow us to investigate potential future ways of life that are more responsive to contemporary social and environmental challenges. [Empathy tree memory box] Empathy Tree: a memory box (left) and bio-sensing...
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Ageing, health inequalities and person-centred care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ageing, health inequalities and person-centred care

...technology means that some interventions may not be used by older people at all. Inequalities can also exist where older people do receive treatment. A previous article in this series highlighted the poor evidence that exists for some drug therapies in older people. Even where the evidence base in older people is better, it may still be skewed in certain population...
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Fake news in Wales
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Fake news in Wales

...technology – and the influence it has on society – along with the perennial tendency for those in power to twist the truth to their own ends, which has created today’s particular crisis. The many forms of fake news Defining exactly what ‘fake news’ is can be a tricky business. This is partly to do with the term itself. On the face of it, it seems quite...
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Recycling: Putting consumers to work
Society, Politics & Law

Recycling: Putting consumers to work

...technological and labour-intensive systems and local authorities have to pay to use them. Whether they benefit from the sale of the processed materials depends on the terms of contract they have with the private company. Twin-stream systems offer a compromise, with the consumer doing a basic sort into two boxes and collection operatives then sorting the waste into...
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The Middle East conflict has swiftly exposed economic vulnerability in the region
Society, Politics & Law

The Middle East conflict has swiftly exposed economic vulnerability in the region

...technology in Qatar’s energy sector, and a vast AI campus in the UAE. It is these kinds of projects which led the World Bank and the World Economic Forum to publish glowing reports on the region recently. Both organisations agreed in late 2025 that oil wealth was being wisely invested for the future. The general view was that the GCC was a place of economic stability...
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Trump and Brexit: What do they owe to economists?
Society, Politics & Law

Trump and Brexit: What do they owe to economists?

...technological futures, and new era stories influence behaviour and become instruments of power in markets and societies; and it argues that the market impact of shared calculative devices, social narratives, and contingent imaginaries underlines the rationale for a new form of narrative economics. Particular attention is paid to how central banks expend huge efforts on...
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Foreign games consoles finally enter the Chinese market
Money & Business

Foreign games consoles finally enter the Chinese market

...technology. Free trade zone offers new hope Planned since 1997, Shanghai proclaimed that the Free Trade Zone to be China’s first economic experimental area in September 2013. The Chinese government issued a notice that welcomes foreign game companies manufacturing and selling game devices, after approval by the Ministry of Culture (in accordance with the guidelines of...
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Taking a Fresh Look at Managing Employee Engagement and Wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Taking a Fresh Look at Managing Employee Engagement and Wellbeing

...technology, and a multi-generational workforce. Coupled with the pandemic, these changes drive productivity and new business operating models, supporting innovation; delivery of business processes; virtual customers and suppliers; and virtual employee communication and engagement. There is also an increase in the use of contractors, virtual teams and homeworking, flexible...
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