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Business Bursts: Branding
Health, Sports & Psychology

Business Bursts: Branding

...World’s Favourite Airline’, but they’re phrases or images we associate with a product, and which gives the company or organisation an advantage over its competitors, because it doesn’t need to communicate anything more than at brand values, or its image it’s presenting. Dr Terry O’Sullivan, Senior Lecturer in Management A product if you like is, if you could...
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Light: Wave-particle duality
Science, Maths & Technology

Light: Wave-particle duality

...world...Light is a wave. This fact is something that most people are familiar with and it’s been known since the experiments carried out by the English polymath Thomas Young in the early 1800s: [Thomas Young wave diffraction experiment] Thomas Young's sketch of two-slit diffraction of waves, 1803 When he wasn’t busy helping to translate the hieroglyphs on the Rosetta...
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Past-Time Lover: Lord Byron
History & The Arts

Past-Time Lover: Lord Byron

...whom. I have often spent beyond my means, and so a partner of relative means would be a considerable convenience. I am a man of some mystery and would like an open-minded partner with whom to share my thrilling world. If you are willing to relocate to Greece, please do write to me of your affections. Is Lord Byron the Juan for you? Cast your vote! Illustrator: Neil Arnold...
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Designing interactive systems for dogs
Digital & Computing

Designing interactive systems for dogs

...world around them, so when presented with different styles of switches, buttons and other controls it may be hard for them to realise that they have the same functions. Of course dogs also come in all shapes and sizes, so any design needs to be versatile enough to account for such a variety. The design of domestic appliances could be friendlier to dogs, particularly to...
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Business Bursts: Failure
Health, Sports & Psychology

Business Bursts: Failure

...world had to intervene and you now have a fiscal crisis, whereby there’s rising public debts, rising public deficits and governments have limited room for manoeuvre for boosting the economy. In particular, they're limited in their room for manoeuvre for creating opportunities out of, or new phoenixes out of the ashes of the recession. Now that brings us to a famous...
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David Bowie: identity is creativity
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David Bowie: identity is creativity

...world’ he portrays himself in ‘Lazarus’, eyes bound like a latter day Tiresias, floating inches above a hospital bed, singing ‘Look up here man, I’m in danger/ I’ve got nothing left to lose./I’m so high it makes my brain whirl.’ The prettiest star fallen to earth. The title of that final song (and album) Blackstar also throw light on his conception of...
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Holi: The festival of colours, the festival of diversity
History & The Arts

Holi: The festival of colours, the festival of diversity

...world by the Indian diaspora, and it has become a festival that brings people together, no matter what their age, gender or class. It gives people an excuse to sing, dance, feast and throw powder paint and coloured water on each other – a practice that would otherwise be frowned upon in polite society! Holi is an occasion to cherish and celebrate the diversity of...
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Non-speaking autism, embodiment, neurodivergence and access to communication therapies and devices
Health, Sports & Psychology

Non-speaking autism, embodiment, neurodivergence and access to communication therapies and devices

...who are engaged in the multi-million-dollar Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) industry, whose aim is to ‘correct’ autistic behaviours and ways of being. This current research project aims to give a platform to non-speaking autistic people, who may communicate independently over keyboard, to give insights into their lives within an overwhelmingly neurotypical world....
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