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Why are today's progressive political heroes still old white men?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are today's progressive political heroes still old white men?

...public engagement. She's looking off to the left of the image and dress in a black blouse and trousers. There is a man behind her also waving and smiling.] Spot the face of change. Reuters/Chris Keane Both have also had to confront serious questions about the inclusiveness of their “revolutions”. Corbyn’s laudable effort to make sure his shadow cabinet was...
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From boom to bust: the AI winter
Digital & Computing

From boom to bust: the AI winter

...public and private money are being poured into artificial intelligence research and the development of products. Economic experts predict that the adoption of AI might add between 13 and 16 trillion dollars to the global economy every year by 2030. These extraordinary figures have been driven in good part by a form of AI known as generative artificial intelligence which...
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‘Shut up and play’: a brief history of athlete activism
Health, Sports & Psychology

‘Shut up and play’: a brief history of athlete activism

...public criticised this decline, and Muhammad Ali, who had been chastised in the 1960s, was later championed as a human rights spokesperson and the model against whom modern athletes were vilified for their absence of activism. Although Craig Hodges and Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf used their platforms to engage in political activism in the 1990s, there was an undeniable slump, with...
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Decolonising the idea of culture in management studies
Money & Business

Decolonising the idea of culture in management studies

...public debate about the need to combat racism and ensure inclusion for minorities in order to bring about an authentic democracy. Celebrating Black History Month is one way to contribute to this. However, there is still some reluctance to acknowledge the profound link between our colonial legacy and the way that racism works. Because of this, what has been called a...
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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...
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An exploration of ‘doing’ ethics in design practice
Science, Maths & Technology

An exploration of ‘doing’ ethics in design practice

...public attention didn’t just shine a light on AI. It reignited a bigger conversation about ethics across the whole design and technology landscape. It felt that ethics had ‘regained traction,’ and designers started thinking more about the ripple effects of their work. But ethics is fuzzy One of the challenges with design ethics is that no one fully agrees on what it...
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Voluntary Gravedigging in the West of Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

Voluntary Gravedigging in the West of Ireland

...just by women. This article is based on my doctoral study: Voluntary Gravedigging in the West of Ireland, published by the Open University in December 2024: https://oro.open.ac.uk/101454/. All of the participants have been given pseudonyms in this article but they have all given permission for their full audio interviews to be accessible in a public Irish archive....
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How can you tell if a signal from space is an alien communication?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can you tell if a signal from space is an alien communication?

...public. Importantly, no response to the signal should be sent until international consultations have taken place. Whatever (if anything) is transmitted back in the direction the signal came from would indicate our presence, so we’d better be sure we want to announce our existence before doing so. [The Conversation]Maybe one day these protocols will be invoked, but until...
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