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Peter Tuddenham On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Peter Tuddenham On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...for the American Society for Cybernetics. He is currently developing a transdisciplinary appreciation of the need for ocean, earth, water, self-health knowing and systems literacy. Peter resides with his wife Kristina Bishop in Northern Virginia where they juggle work, play, travel and interest in the lives of six children and their spouses and fourteen grandchildren....
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Invasion of the killer pumpkins
Money & Business

Invasion of the killer pumpkins

...children, and increasingly ourselves, dress up as the dead and the damned to consume this tacky stuff once a year, often at the hands of complete strangers against a faint but persistent aura of menace? Some thank American television for this cultural import alongside baseball hats and junior proms. Others might go further, explaining it as the eruption of some deep...
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An introduction to computers and computer systems
Digital & Computing

An introduction to computers and computer systems

...centres to house thousands of special computers and data storage devices to store your data. Access to the data is made possible by the internet, which you will look at later in this course. You might think a cloud as an anonymous, unknown location that is shared by many unrelated users. The location is owned, managed and operated by a business, or academic or government...
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How many different types of smile are there?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How many different types of smile are there?

...researcher into smiles over the past 30 years has been Paul Ekman at the University of California. His 1978 Facial Action Coding System, written with Wallace V Friesen, seeks to create an atlas of nearly all possible human expressions. Ekman says, in his book Telling Lies, that their technique for measuring the face can distinguish over 50 different smiles. Confused?...
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Statistics: What is it or what are they?
Science, Maths & Technology

Statistics: What is it or what are they?

...research organisation MORI interviewed 1,955 adults across the UK. Of the 949 of these who said they would be certain to vote if there were an election the next day, 39% said they would vote Conservative, 35% Labour, 19% Liberal Democrat, and the rest for other parties or candidates. These numbers are statistics in the plural sense; they are facts about what the...
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The lifelong political engagement of the Silent Generation
Health, Sports & Psychology

The lifelong political engagement of the Silent Generation

...glorious past, ‘they didn’t live through it’. As the research progresses, it is clear that citizenship and political engagement is lifelong. Just because official information gatherers do not recognise the value of the opinions of our oldest citizens does not mean their voices should be silenced. They have important things to say, and we should be listening....
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OpenMinds: Open and Shut Cases – Professor Simon Lee’s Inaugural lecture
Miscellaneous

OpenMinds: Open and Shut Cases – Professor Simon Lee’s Inaugural lecture

...research from the USA on whether judges, lawyers, law students and the general public think differently and he will question how we can encourage students and the wider public to be open-minded. Finally, he will reflect on Allan Bloom’s challenging book, The Closing of the American Mind from 1987 and the battle-cries of ‘post-truth’ and ‘fake news’ in 2017. He...
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Dialogues Across Borders
Society, Politics & Law

Dialogues Across Borders

...research on smartphones and refugees and the poetry and photo exhibition she co-created with refugees at Pikpa Camp formed the basis of two of the workshops. Elena’s travelling exhibition which she took to many cities across the world as part of Play is Hope project forged new relationships with refugees and artists and some of them joined us at the Tate by videolink...
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