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If Infinity Wars had peer review instead of script editors
Science, Maths & Technology

If Infinity Wars had peer review instead of script editors

...account how advances in technology offset expansions in population). Thus, his justification to vanquish fifty percent of life from the Universe is deeply flawed. If the Infinity Stones grant the power to eliminate life with the snap of the fingers, why didn’t Thanos use this power to expand the available resources in the Universe to accommodate the growing population?...
Book, comic and animation - What is the fear collection?
Science, Maths & Technology

Book, comic and animation - What is the fear collection?

...account of fear I was looking for so my research progressed and so did my book. On reflection, I found researching and writing about fear – from the personal to the planetary – exhausting and scary. I had to go into some areas which I found personally worrisome and at times found myself anxious and fearful. Fear was not easy to tie down and studying it meant looking...
What is the 2015 Autumn Statement all about?
Society, Politics & Law

What is the 2015 Autumn Statement all about?

...account deficit) and when the private sector is investing less than it saves. Over the past five years the UK has continued to run its traditional current account deficit, and private investment has only belatedly started to recover from its post-crisis slump. Meanwhile, the amount that companies are stockpiling on their balance sheets is on the up. So unless investors or...
What is a password manager - and should I be using one?
Digital & Computing

What is a password manager - and should I be using one?

...accounts will be secure? [A padlock holds paperwork together] How secure are your important documents online? What is a password manager - and how can a password manager help me? A password manager is an application running on your computer that stores passwords for you. Very simple password managers allow stored passwords to be copied and pasted into log-in boxes. More...
Kant on trust
History & The Arts

Kant on trust

...account of the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, who placed honesty and trustworthiness at the heart of his theory of how we should live. Kant (1724-1804) spent his whole life in Königsberg, in Prussia, and taught at the local university. He produced some of the most profound works of philosophy ever written, in metaphysics and aesthetics as well as in ethics, and is...
Why it is a huge mistake to get rid of parent governors on school boards
Society, Politics & Law

Why it is a huge mistake to get rid of parent governors on school boards

...account – will be done by “professionals”. The proposals to remove the requirement to have elected parent governors on boards risks alienating the very communities whose interests the board purports to represent. It is a grave error of judgement on the part of the government. The role of parent governors Defining what elected parents do for a board is not easy, but...
Studying design at The Open University: a rewarding journey
Science, Maths & Technology

Studying design at The Open University: a rewarding journey

...account of studying design at The Open University (OU). While studying with us, they also played a key role in co-designing the new Bachelor of Design (BDes) qualification during their Virtual Internship. I am certain one of the proudest moments in their internship was planning this video, from writing the storyboard and script to recording the video in the OU studio....
Three weeks in June and one night in November
Society, Politics & Law

Three weeks in June and one night in November

...accounts, prone to lengthy tangential diversions and Gothic imagery. Both occupy a weird space between unsettling truths and darkly sprawling nightmares. Curtis’s HyperNormalisation plots the period from the mid-1970s to the present day and reminds us that the phenomenon of post-truth politics is not new. His impressionistic account has a common reprise – that we have...