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Lifecycle of the Car Industry
Money & Business

Lifecycle of the Car Industry

...world but no cars, and to this day I don't understand why. Sometimes an idea that's perfectly viable doesn't happen even though people have the technology, have the means of doing it – it just doesn't happen, it just comes along too early in some respects." It was the invention of the internal combustion engine that saw what economists call the introductory phase of the...
Exploring the icy moons
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the icy moons

...worlds, very different to Earth. I want to explore those alien worlds, to understand what they mean for the potential for life and what they can tell us about our own origins. If we find that the icy moons, the ocean worlds like Europa and Enceladus, don’t have any life and never did, that tells us something. It tells us that our understanding of how life originates is...
Reimagining professional learning: conversations across perspectives
Education & Development

Reimagining professional learning: conversations across perspectives

...worlds rather than reflecting on what already exists. New conversations The implication is clear: professional growth happens not primarily through formal interventions, but through the informal textures of professional practice. It is found in the conversations over coffee, the chance hallway encounters, the small kindnesses within communities where we feel, recalibrate...
Rio 2016: A short Paralympics reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: A short Paralympics reading list

...world's stage in Rio. But just the opportunity to compete isn't enough. We need more media coverage of athletes with disabilities. We need more education about the opportunities for children with disabilities to get involved with sports. We need more than just 66 hours of coverage of the Paralympics. Read the full article at Upworthy: Why #FillTheSeats is about more than...
Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter
Society, Politics & Law

Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter

...world are coping with the impacts of environmental change. In part 1, we join a research expedition in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, to explore how geography matters to people's 'common-sense' understandings of safety and well-being. Dr Johanna Wadsley is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Geography Department of the Open University. This article is based on research...
Could Bernie Sanders be the next American President?
Society, Politics & Law

Could Bernie Sanders be the next American President?

...world which it has dominated and largely controlled since World War II. It is now desperately trying to compensate for its declining power and influence worldwide by becoming a fortress dedicated to battling forces of change inside and outside of its territory. We must make America great again, in the words of Donald Trump. The Republican Party has been trying to slam the...
Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change

...world is doing and how well the models are describing it, so it is cherry picking really. RH: You can understand their point of view, though. The world is about to spend or commit to spend trillions of dollars on clean energy to avoid climate change, and the Lukewarmers are saying, ‘Well, maybe we don’t need to avoid that much of it. Maybe in fact some degree of...
‘Rule Britannia, Britannia Rules the Waves’: From fishing patriotism to pragmatism
Nature & Environment

‘Rule Britannia, Britannia Rules the Waves’: From fishing patriotism to pragmatism

...heritage and island mentality of ‘bloody foreigners stealing our fish’. On top of that, the fishing industry has had its expectations raised, probably unfairly, by promises of ‘total control’, exclusion of other fishing fleets, and increases in fishing quota available to them. But can Brexit deliver? Is the fate of the UK fishing industry going to be the litmus...