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Latitude and Longitude
History & The Arts

Latitude and Longitude

...world. The eclipses of Jupiter’s moons were timed in Paris using a pendulum clock. In 1681, Cassini travelled to the island of Goree in the West Indies to repeat his measurements. Absolute time was found on the island by observing the eclipses, and this was compared to local time (obtained using the sun), so enabling the island’s longitude to be calculated. The...
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The Great Resignation: temporary blip or more enduring labour market trend?
Money & Business

The Great Resignation: temporary blip or more enduring labour market trend?

...world’ and says they basically ‘should not exist’ (p. 9). And they are not, perhaps surprisingly, mundane, low-skilled, badly paid and/ or precarious. Instead Graeber suggests that ‘bullshit’ jobs include those held by ‘private equity CEOs, lobbyists, PR researchers, actuaries, telemarketers, bailiffs, or legal consultants’ (p. 9). His argument is that, were...
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The role of business development in AstrobiologyOU
Science, Maths & Technology

The role of business development in AstrobiologyOU

...world. What kind of skills did you learn in academia that have transferred to business? From research in the physical sciences, I learned how to structure my thinking, how to ask good questions and to look for the big picture among details and leads, how to be a critical thinker and how to write well. I also learned how to collaborate with people from different...
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Why books are a lifeline for prisoners
Society, Politics & Law

Why books are a lifeline for prisoners

...world that such things should be regarded as privileges which prisoners would have to earn. Receiving books from outside will no longer be allowed. Those core nostrums of Tory values – economy, security and punishment – have been invoked. How I wish that Mr Grayling had been present at the sessions last week at HMP Magilligan, a sprawling former barracks situated on...
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Asexuality 101: Isn’t that for plants?
Education & Development

Asexuality 101: Isn’t that for plants?

...Worlds; Florence, in Sex Education; Reyna Avila Ramírez-Arellano, in The Heroes of Olympus etc; Ruby Hale, in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D), many new books and studies being released, podcasts (Sounds Fake But Okay) and George Norman became Britain’s first out asexual politician in 2015. The Other One Percent Asexuality is still so little known and little understood by anyone...
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Can quotas make gender equality happen in politics? Lessons from business
Society, Politics & Law

Can quotas make gender equality happen in politics? Lessons from business

...world for many years. Her research is as clear as can be in its conclusions – significant change doesn’t happen without quotas and, even then, progress in increasing women’s representation can be rolled back quickly. The same is seen in conventional workplaces. British business leaders have long resisted the imposition of quotas for executive boards, despite...
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Why do we need free speech?
History & The Arts

Why do we need free speech?

...world today, like China, Russia and Turkey, governments are cracking down on free speech and protest through censorship, surveillance and mass detention. Meanwhile in the West, there have been worries that misinformation and disinformation spread through social media are undermining public trust in democracy. In January 2021, rioters stormed the US Capitol after false...
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Do people need Peeple?
Digital & Computing

Do people need Peeple?

...world views of Peeple’s creators who post about the supportive emails they claim to have received, and more or less everyone else commenting on their page. Comments include: This app is disgusting you have to be a sociopath to even consider wanting to do this. If you’ve ever been stalked online let alone bullied in real life you’ll know exactly how this is going to...
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