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Can design by committee work? Making a case for open source design
Science, Maths & Technology

Can design by committee work? Making a case for open source design

...think before rushing to declare the rise of “open-source architecture,” “open-source university,” “open-source democracy” and so on. [A convention held in a stadium] You can elect a presidential candidate with a massive committee - why can't a smaller group design a user interface? The Challenges Scratching an itch By going open-source, coders are fulfilling a...
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Queen Victoria on the Chartists
History & The Arts

Queen Victoria on the Chartists

...thinks the Baby, so like Albert. The accounts from Manchester are dreadful - such disturbances, as also in some other parts, near Sheffield, &c Drove out with Papa & Alexandrine, Albert & Ernest, &c, riding. We drove to the Stud & showed Papa all the horses. We also looked at the Hunters. I never felt anything like the heat On returning, found Sir Robert Peel & some of...
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Methods in Motion: Remaking self-help
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Remaking self-help

...thinking can be linked to new forms of investigation...My project is quite an unusual one for an academic. It doesn’t involve designing and conducting experiments or interviews, but it does include several different kinds of research. It fairly rarely involves me writing in academic language, but it does draw on academic theory. It doesn’t require much in the way of...
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Is ‘Barbenheimer’ going to save cinema?
History & The Arts

Is ‘Barbenheimer’ going to save cinema?

...think that Barbenheimer signals a reverse in fortune for theatrical screenings. But can Barbenheimer save cinema? What kind of cinema are we talking about saving? And does it really need saving at all? ['Barbenheimer' text in a pink Barbie branded font]Barbenheimer text in a pink Barbie-branded typeface. It’s important to note that most analysts believe Barbenheimer has...
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The Silver Bridge Disaster: The collapse
Science, Maths & Technology

The Silver Bridge Disaster: The collapse

...think public opinion would have overridden whatever they may have felt. Walter Carpenter They couldn’t get it out of their minds, the fate of this bridge was sealed. The National Transportation Safety Board had no other recourse than to say they had to condemn the bridge because they couldn’t prove it was safe, and they were no doubt right in coming to that...
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On Brexit, Hamsters & Hungry Pythons!
Society, Politics & Law

On Brexit, Hamsters & Hungry Pythons!

...think that the whole debate is little more than a blue on blue civil war and that progressive politicians should not even be sharing a platform with pro-EU Conservatives. The idea of a Tory civil war certainly seems credible after John Major’s extended and brutal assault on people in his own party on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show. Perhaps his most telling and harsh...
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Population ageing: a global health crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Population ageing: a global health crisis?

...systems, Making health care affordable to all And we can do this not just because we care for them, because we also care for those to come. Read more about aging in the June 2011 issue of Finance and Development, a publication of the International Monetary Fund. www.imf.org/fandd Produced by Babar Ahmed for The International Monetary Fund Original music composed by...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
What do historians do?
History & The Arts

What do historians do?

...think of a historian? Figure 1 shows Asa Briggs (1921–2016), an influential and successful historian, a Cambridge and London University graduate, former soldier, codebreaker at Bletchley Park and the third Chancellor of The Open University (1978–1994). Asa probably fits many people’s ideas of how a friendly historian might look. These days historians are more...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs