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Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...public pressure)? What practices does an innovative organisation engage in with respect to environmental management? Systems ideas are used to explore and develop critical perspectives on innovation in relation to environmental management by organisations. A systems approach raises the question of perspective: who decides what is innovation, what boundary judgements are...
Creating open educational resources
Education & Development

Creating open educational resources

...publication of high quality educational materials, organised as courses. In 2001, MIT was the first university to work on putting many of the teacher-defined support materials from its undergraduate and graduate courses online, in MIT OpenCourseWare. The term ‘open educational resources’ was coined by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation...
Intermediate French: 14 July
Languages

Intermediate French: 14 July

...publics (free dances open to everybody). In this section a variety of people explain how they celebrate Bastille Day and what it means to them. Vitrine de confiseur décorée pour le quatorze juillet...Intermediate French: 14 July: 1.1 Les avis sont partagés - What exactly does the average French person celebrate on Bastille Day? As you will see, opinions can differ...
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No Pause for Thought? Brexit, Bias and Political Manipulation
Health, Sports & Psychology

No Pause for Thought? Brexit, Bias and Political Manipulation

...difficult for an inner circle to seal itself off from wider opinion. Alternatively, being on the campaign trail may be an opportunity for the general public to remind their prospective MPs that there are many shades of opinion between Hard Brexit and Hard Remain, and that no one party that has all the ideas for representing British interest in future Brexit negotiations....
How did music influence Virgina Woolf?
History & The Arts

How did music influence Virgina Woolf?

...in ‘intermediality’ with the Modernists, including T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein and Katherine Mansfield, too. She spoke, then, for many of her contemporaries when she wrote in a letter of 1899 that music, rather than literature, seemed to her the ‘nearest to truth’. This article originally appeared in the Public Domain Review under a CC-BY-SA licence...
What do you need to know about Donald Trump's nominee to oversee US banking?
Money & Business

What do you need to know about Donald Trump's nominee to oversee US banking?

...publicized, everyone from Wall Street to Main Street who cares about interest rates would be able to predict how the Fed is going to react under such a rules-based approach. The Taylor rule While Quarles has not specifically referred to which rule he would favor, a frequently cited one is called the “Taylor rule.” It is named after Stanford economist John B. Taylor,...
How network science can unravel Al Capone's criminal associates
Science, Maths & Technology

How network science can unravel Al Capone's criminal associates

...public fascination with Capone’s wealth, moxie, and violence dating back to the 1920s meant that thousands of pages of documents related to Capone’s organized crime were preserved in Chicago archives. We combined big data thinking with old school gumshoe-like archival work with Al Capone as our informant. We accessed more than 5,000 pages of historical documents such...
Review: Building and Dwelling - Ethics for the City
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Building and Dwelling - Ethics for the City

...publics until the moment when the professionals ‘exit’ and the community takes over. In Part Four of the book, Sennett considers the timeframes in which the city is produced. Climate change is a long-term danger to the city and a ‘malign threat’ is particularly posed by water: we face an era of floods and droughts. Sennett proposes the ‘adaptive berm’ to think...