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Methods in Motion: Challenging the Narrative
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Challenging the Narrative

...human rights and involved in destabilising activities across the globe. It is possible to draw from this a comparison with the narcissistic echo chamber that is so often decried in relation to social media, a place where we only read and hear what friends that we share stuff with think. Similarly, it appears that governments like the UK swallow the same tired discourses...
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To restore or not to restore?
History & The Arts

To restore or not to restore?

...human beings that we value artefacts simply because they have been around for a very long time. We value them for their history; for their story. When they were first constructed, we can imagine them shiny and new. Then over the centuries, they take some knocks, get put to different uses, and eventually end up bearing the patina of age as we see them today. If we...
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The Special Adviser’s Tale, or Political Storytelling in the Time of Covid
Languages

The Special Adviser’s Tale, or Political Storytelling in the Time of Covid

...Humans tend to act in response to a number of primal emotions, and storytelling – especially when used for persuasive purposes – taps into these. The original aim of the government’s narrative was to justify Cummings’s actions by foregrounding one emotional rationale over another. Okay, so maybe he’d bent the rules ever so slightly with his trip (yes, this was a...
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The experts who put storytelling, language and better paid teachers at the heart of early education
Education & Development

The experts who put storytelling, language and better paid teachers at the heart of early education

...human mind works. According to Bruner: We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us. The mind that drives science, art and sense of self, he said, is not linear and logical, but narrative. People think in stories and are able to imagine the world only through stories. It is an idea that has influenced...
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How can you tell that you're not experiencing a delusion?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can you tell that you're not experiencing a delusion?

...humans, we are all susceptible to experiencing anomalous mental states such as this. In everyday life, for example, mentally healthy people distort reality to enhance their self-esteem and maintain beliefs about their self-agency. When faced with negative, ambiguous or unsupportive feedback, we often respond with exaggerated perceptions of control and unrealistic...
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Ordinary dying and the Queen: Reflections on a case study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ordinary dying and the Queen: Reflections on a case study

...humanities to raise some questions about what ‘ordinary dying’ might mean. For example, social scientists would ask: who decides what gets to become ‘normal’ or ‘ordinary’ and how does this then come to shape understandings of how someone should die or what gets called a good death? So, we too were drawn to reflect upon whether the Queen’s death should be...
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How is identity data creating headaches for large companies?
Money & Business

How is identity data creating headaches for large companies?

...human form spraying water] Leaking identity data can cost companies Google might be in trouble for collecting the personal data of its users, but many companies have a growing incentive to rid their hands of the data that users entrust them with. This is because of growing costs of holding onto it. A major cause is the rising number of cyber attacks where hackers steal...
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If Wannacry caused so much disruption, how come it raised so little money?
Digital & Computing

If Wannacry caused so much disruption, how come it raised so little money?

...humans that are generally the weakest link when it comes to information security. The perfect crime? Ransomware is almost the perfect IT crime. If an online criminal can trick you into installing malware, they can then lock your files and hold them ransom until you pay them a release fee. Only a secret encryption key, which they hold, can release the files. It is simple,...
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