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What does the AKP victory mean for Turkey?
Society, Politics & Law

What does the AKP victory mean for Turkey?

...public broadcaster, the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT), which once again displayed blatant favouritism toward the government and Erdoğan. More worryingly still, reports are circulating of vote-rigging. The news agencies announced the results very rapidly. The election was called for the AKP within only a few hours, despite the fact that many votes were...
Blade Runner: What's the balance between science and fiction?
Science, Maths & Technology

Blade Runner: What's the balance between science and fiction?

...public acceptance of real science. These issues should not be addressed by scientists alone. We need to create opportunities and unique collaborations that encourage broader community engagement beyond fictitious portrayals on the big screen. Yet, as Science in the Cinema shows, that’s certainly a great place to start the conversation.[The Conversation] This article was...
Why did poorer people vote to leave the European Union?
Society, Politics & Law

Why did poorer people vote to leave the European Union?

...public was even more of one mind was in their awareness that the NHS has a funding problem. To find out where those left out of rising prosperity differed from the rest, however, we need to look at other survey questions. These introduce two important caveats to the popular narrative: that at least until the eve of the referendum campaign, poor Britons were not sure that...
Sartre & de Beauvoir, Guevara & Castro: When the existentialists met the revolutionaries
History & The Arts

Sartre & de Beauvoir, Guevara & Castro: When the existentialists met the revolutionaries

...public beach being developed for internal tourism. They are given warm soft drinks. Castro asks why there is no ice. Because, replies one of the three slightly dazed workers, the refrigerators do not work. Castro cannot tolerate such un-revolutionary lethargy and bangs around the machines trying to get them to work, animating the workers to take the initiative. Sartre...
Did Donald Trump ride a tide of anti-feminism to the White House?
Society, Politics & Law

Did Donald Trump ride a tide of anti-feminism to the White House?

...public office, Trump was reworking a theme common in the anti-feminist rhetoric of the post-war period. Writer Philip Wylie’s 1942 best-selling polemic, Generation of Vipers, excoriated American women for disempowering their husbands, emasculating their sons, and leaving a once great American nation on its knees. You don’t have to look hard to see shades of Trump’s...
How Trump tweets
Society, Politics & Law

How Trump tweets

...public statements from the president-elect. Bulletins from the top. Naming them for their means of delivery (Twitter) doesn’t help. They can’t be ignored any more than an announcement on whitehouse.gov can be disregarded. Who Trump follows At the time of writing, Trump has 23.3m twitter followers – and, while clearly a great many of these will not be supporters...
Do enforced language tests help migrants integrate more smoothly?
Languages

Do enforced language tests help migrants integrate more smoothly?

...public wants to see an increase in the English language requirement, they want to see people meet Australian laws and Australian values”. However, there has been widespread opposition across the community to the changes in the English language requirement and the opposition Australian Labour Party has decided to oppose them, too. There is no evidence that introducing...
John Perry Barlow: An Appreciation
Science, Maths & Technology

John Perry Barlow: An Appreciation

...public began to engage with a primitive, sluggish, expensive Internet. In 1996, when the Declaration was published, there were perhaps 36 million Internet users. Today, there are 3.7 billion – more than half the people on the planet. In 1996, Amazon was just seven months old; in Stanford, California, two unknown students called Larry Page and Sergey Brin were working on...