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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....
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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,...
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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 We accessed more than 5,000 pages of historical documents such...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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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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