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Why is the iPhone X a thousand-dollar gamble?
Money & Business

Why is the iPhone X a thousand-dollar gamble?

...social construct. People will pay what they think is appropriate, if they can afford it. Apple has traditionally pushed the boundaries of customer sense of pricing appropriateness. In terms of affordability, in countries where mobile operators offer package deals, the incremental cost over the $699 iPhone 7 for example will amount to a couple of cups of coffee per month....
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Why Brexit would be bad for employment rights
Society, Politics & Law

Why Brexit would be bad for employment rights

...social issues. Even if Brexit left the UK free to dismantle employment rights, a Conservative government wishing to be re-elected might see little political advantage in removing rights to parental leave or allowing employers to discriminate against people because of their religion or sexual orientation. It is highly likely, however, that the EU’s working-time...
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Porn licensing isn't the answer
Digital & Computing

Porn licensing isn't the answer

...social network sites that a company doesn’t want to see used in work hours. A popular trick is to scan the contents of data packets via deep packet inspection and deciding how this traffic may be handled as a general rule. Services such as Skype for example, are often an unpopular use of corporate network traffic as, in Skype’s case, it shares the services of a...
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Horror and politics
History & The Arts

Horror and politics

...social equality that we hold dear today. The cast of assembled characters – Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, Mary’s step-sister Claire Clairmont, and Byron’s personal physician John Polidori – were living embodiments of the liberal ideals that were causing such an affront to the conservative and patrician values of the ruling classes in the early...
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Irish Women’s Poetry: Colette Bryce
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry: Colette Bryce

...social codes. As with the rope trick, the car wash is a clear, everyday image. At the same time, it stands for complex ideas about public and private lives. [Photograph: inside a car wash] ... and between expression and suppression ‘“Say nothing” is still a powerful rule in Northern Ireland’, Bryce tells Alex Pryce: it’s difficult to be outspoken in tight-knit...
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A Clockwork Orange: ultraviolence, Russian spies and fake news
Languages

A Clockwork Orange: ultraviolence, Russian spies and fake news

...social landscape shared much of the mood and outlook of the post-war period in which Orwell was writing. But the world that Bowie ended up imagining arguably has as much to do with Burgess’s “world of adolescent violence and governmental retribution” depicted in A Clockwork Orange. Coincidentally, Sonia Orwell also played a bit part in an incident which was...
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EdTech Evidence: What works and why
Education & Development

EdTech Evidence: What works and why

...social skills should be prioritised. Despite their differing priorities, both perspectives recognise that a balanced education system incorporating both what is easy to measure as well as life outcomes is key to fostering well-rounded, capable individuals. To preserve the richness of learning educators need to critically engage with several existing frameworks to address...
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How India reacted to Sundar Pichai's new role at Google - and what will he do?
Science, Maths & Technology

How India reacted to Sundar Pichai's new role at Google - and what will he do?

...social media when India-born Pichai ascended to the most powerful job at the world's biggest technology company Google. Looking forward to interviews with neighbors of Sundar Pichai and scenes of sweet distribution at his native village. — greatbong (@greatbong) August 10, 2015 Sundar Pichai Became Google’s New CEO And The Indian Internet Could Think Of Only One Joke...
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