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Can design by committee work? Making a case for open source design
Science, Maths & Technology

Can design by committee work? Making a case for open source design

...artificial constraints are harder to learn and conform to than the constraints of a programming language. While constraints and standards in technology are the mother of creativity, in design they can often feel artificial and oppressive. Beyond that, within a collaboration, when Bob tries to argue for the merits of his design, unlike in the case of Alice’s code he...
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Why has Antonin Scalia's death set off a battle for the US Supreme Court?
Society, Politics & Law

Why has Antonin Scalia's death set off a battle for the US Supreme Court?

...intelligent rhetoric and landmark opinions, and the court has lost a larger-than-life personality. His death has also prompted a fierce debate, with US presidential candidates and elected officials already at loggerheads over what happens next. [Justice Antonin Scalia Speaks with Staff at the U.S. Mission in Geneva] Justice Scalia Ordinarily the president would choose a...
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How can authorities plan for an unexpected terrorist tactic?
Society, Politics & Law

How can authorities plan for an unexpected terrorist tactic?

...intelligence and protective personnel, but they don’t install highway barriers – that is not their thing. How focused, fast and effective was the liaison between homeland security and highway authorities? The fact that the terrorist on 22 March could mow pedestrians and cyclists down across the whole length of the bridge is not reassuring. Learning lessons quickly...
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Can animals be courageous?
History & The Arts

Can animals be courageous?

...intelligence or charm. These traits can help us achieve our goals. But they are not, just in themselves, morally good traits: they can be put to bad ends as well as good. Alternatively, we might view courage as a moral virtue. On this view, courage can be classed with other moral virtues such as honesty, fairness, generosity or kindness. Having these moral virtues (it...
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Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need
Health, Sports & Psychology

Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need

...Intelligence in a Challenging Workplace. References American Psychological Association, Presidential Task Force on Evidence-Based Practice in Psychology (2006) American Psychologist, 61(4), pp. 271–85, doi: 10.1037/0003-066X.61.4.271. Harris, R. (2006) ‘Embracing your demons: an overview of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy’, Psychotherapy in Australia, 12(4), pp....
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Killers or carers?
Nature & Environment

Killers or carers?

...artificial ‘eggs’ are neatly sliced onto a conveyor belt from a sausage-shaped raw material, fed into the machine by a human worker wearing a comical egg-shaped safety helmet. Negative consumer suspicions of McDonalds’s products being ‘unnatural’ are skilfully defused, with hens themselves taking centre stage. [Young lambs] Two young lambs in a field Taking the...
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How the sausage links us together
History & The Arts

How the sausage links us together

...intelligent, handsome boys should avoid eating sausages before having sex. The origins of the sausage lie, then, in the very origins of human cookery yet retain currency as a barometer of cultural and political activity. Its independent emergence in different parts of the world reminds us that human creativity itself did not emerge from a single place such as the Fertile...
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OpenLearn's response to the pandemic
Education & Development

OpenLearn's response to the pandemic

...intelligence and effective communications. I'm a carer for an autistic 25 year old recently diagnosed. I wanted to help understand her and help her understand herself too. You may have saved her life. …I feel empowered to support people more confidently through my work. Before Covid I didn't have the time to do a course this in depth … this course is amazing and I get...
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