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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 We accessed more than 5,000 pages of historical documents such...
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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...
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What are your views about technologies to support and assess writing skills?
Education & Development

What are your views about technologies to support and assess writing skills?

...public good and supporting the remix culture (read/write society) through various methods, media and formats. Open licenses such as Creative Commons (with 1.4 billion licensed works) are a key component of shared culture. They present clear procedures for derivative works to give proper attribution to original works, titles, authors, sources and licenses. However, besides...
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Can science make you a better leader?
Money & Business

Can science make you a better leader?

...public, private and not-for-profit sectors, some interesting differences emerged. In those organisations where senior leaders offered a positive role model, then it was more likely that purposeful leadership would be widely diffused throughout the organisation. One person we spoke to at a retailer said: Our CEO is very, very visionary and everyone absolutely bought into...
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This is not a city: Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

This is not a city: Milton Keynes

...public sector organisations, a thriving local economy, a large shopping centre and a university. Several local organisations refer to Milton Keynes as a ‘city’: Milton Keynes City Football Club and Milton Keynes City Orchestra to name just two. Even the local authority, MK Council, does it. But, as you may have guessed by now, Milton Keynes is not a city. In fact,...
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The Silver Bridge Disaster: Eyebars in suspension
Science, Maths & Technology

The Silver Bridge Disaster: Eyebars in suspension

...public than did the fact that it was steel. Narrator But after barely 40 years, the design and materials used came to haunt them. On December the 15th, 1967, the bridge fell in less than one minute, with the loss of 46 lives. A 20 year-old eyewitness at the time, was Charlene Wood. Charlene Wood I was actually on the bridge when it fell that night. I was going home from...
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The Olympic torch: the truth
History & The Arts

The Olympic torch: the truth

...public imagination, that was ‘the carrying of the lighted torch from distant Olympia to the Stadium at Wembley’. Yes, it was a completely phony tradition and it was originally created as Nazi propaganda. But, these minor inconveniences aside, it had proven to be very popular, and that was precisely what the 1948 Olympic organising committee needed. On 17 July 1948,...
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How emoji are changing the shape of everyday English
Languages

How emoji are changing the shape of everyday English

...publicity stunt in reaction to the Unicode Consortium (the organisation who oversee all thing emoji) turning down their proposal for a condom emoji. And then there’s the company Eggplant Mail, which will anonymously send an actual aubergine, inscribed with a message of your choice, through the post to anyone you think might appreciate one. The purpose of this? For...
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