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What is openwashing - and how can you avoid it?
Digital & Computing

What is openwashing - and how can you avoid it?

...education resources, data, or government - but only for the kudos without making good on the open promise can undermine the whole movement. Patrick Masson from the software Open Source Iniative explores those whose doors say open, but their attitudes remain closed...It's great to see where open source software and the communities that support it are today. Many of those...
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Is cleaning a route to a better life for migrants?
Society, Politics & Law

Is cleaning a route to a better life for migrants?

...educated for the job they are doing. Kifibin moved to Finland in 2010 to study on an international Master’s programme in the natural sciences. He had completed his Bachelor’s degree and worked in the water industry in Uganda but then wanted to take his studies further. At that time, there were no tuition fees in Finland but the cost of living was high, so Kifibin...
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Why Bernie Sanders could determine the shape of America for years to come
Society, Politics & Law

Why Bernie Sanders could determine the shape of America for years to come

...educational background prevalent among the current occupants. It was a not-so-subtle anti-Washington dig, mobilising for conservatives and sending frissons of fear among women’s groups aware of the Supreme Court’s capability to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision that liberalised abortion. Any breadth in the list was the inclusion of Texas Supreme Court justice Don...
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Methods in Motion: Remaking self-help
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Remaking self-help

...educator, Justin Hancock: Enjoy Sex (How, When and If You Want To). Down into the bottom left corner, much of my self-help is informed by the research I’ve conducted over the years with members of gender, sexual, and relationship diverse (GSRD) communities. I’ve always felt that the common psychology question of how GSRD can be explained is a problematic one, and that...
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Why do voters allow corrupt politicians to stay in office?
Society, Politics & Law

Why do voters allow corrupt politicians to stay in office?

...education and social engagement. My results suggest one concrete avenue where greater political attentiveness may produce clear benefits – greater sanctioning of politicians who misuse public office for personal or political gain. This article was originally published by LSE USAPP blog under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence and is based on the paper, ’Uninformed Voters and...
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Selling Empire: Posters
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Posters

...education. [EMB East African Transport Old] 'East African Transport Old Style', by Adrian Allinson, from the 'Colonial Progress Brings Home Prosperity' series of posters; 60 x 40 ins, displayed December 1930-January 1931; Waterlow and Sons Ltd; EMB ref BR1; (TNA) CO956/211 Though many posters depict non-Europeans in much more flattering light than the above – some...
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Concussion in football: Is it time to get ahead of the game?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Concussion in football: Is it time to get ahead of the game?

...important lessons from the improvements made in other sports such as rugby. For example, the doctors are allowed a longer concussion assessment time, there are temporary substitutions, and the Rugby Football Union (RFU) has a comprehensive educational concussion awareness programme called HEADCASE. Perhaps football does need to raise its game, sooner rather than later....
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Proper men, proper women: Gender roles in contemporary UK society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Proper men, proper women: Gender roles in contemporary UK society

...review published in Feminism & Psychology Reclassifying upward mobility: femininity and the neo-liberal subject Valerie Walkerdine writing in Gender and Education 2003 15, pages 237-248 Why more and more women are using pornography by Tanith Carey in The Guardian, April 7th 2011 You might also want to look at Rosalind Gill's book Gender and the Media, published by Polity...
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