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Money & Business

Managing my money for young adults

...research and teaching centre of excellence based at The Open University Business School, funded by True Potential LLP. For more information go to True Potential PUFin. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material...
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Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview
Society, Politics & Law

Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview

...Research Projects Agency (DARPA)Information Awareness Office (IAO), brought his Total Information Awareness programme to Congress where even the congress-critters eventually rejected it. Yet the intelligence agencies went ahead and essentially built and operated the infrastructure of mass surveillance in secret anyway. When the NSA, both considered, ditched the...
What is happening in Brazil?
Society, Politics & Law

What is happening in Brazil?

...Research Institute at two recent protests in São Paulo (one pro-government and the other against), anti-government demonstrators were 13 percent more likely to earn above US$27,600 annually. Anti-government demonstrators were also less likely to be civil servants, and more likely to own their own businesses. But at both rallies, nearly 80 percent of demonstrators were...
Promoting equality through the Arts
History & The Arts

Promoting equality through the Arts

...research. The Democratic Set Originally devised and designed by Artistic Director Bruce Gladwin, The Democratic Set is one of those residency models. It is an approach to creating short films and performances that, when edited together, capture a unique picture of a community at a particular moment in time. Using a custom-made film set – a neutral room with two opposing...
The Rise of Museums
History & The Arts

The Rise of Museums

...research and popular education remain a vexed problem for museum administrators everywhere. 'History is other people's junk', a sign in the CheckPoint Charlie Museum in Berlin reads. Fortunately the Victorian obsessions with 'junk' associated with archaeology, anthropology and Empire and natural history resulted in 'cathedrals to science'. Of course the order has moved...
England’s Historic Battlefields: the Wars of the Roses
History & The Arts

England’s Historic Battlefields: the Wars of the Roses

...Research on these sites is ongoing, evident in the fact that the board states the battle took place on 26 July, although historians now generally agree it took place two days earlier! (Graham Evans) Historic battlefields matter today as part of our public history and sometimes they can arouse quite heated debates. In 2021 Royal Mail issued a set of stamps commemorating...
Fossil evidence for evolution
History & The Arts

Fossil evidence for evolution

...research now is to investigate under what circumstances such differences obtain – a continuing and fascinating challenge. It is sad, though perhaps not surprising, that creationists (including the re-branded 'Intelligent Design' lobby), resolutely ignore such carefully conducted studies, preferring instead to keep re-cycling an already falsified picture of the fossil...
Homo Economicus, the East India Company and industrial espionage
Society, Politics & Law

Homo Economicus, the East India Company and industrial espionage

...researcher Sara de Jong on the intersections of identity and citizenship with economic history and language...[Plant by Laura Malacart] Sara: What were the sources of inspiration for developing your current installation for the Who Are We? Project? What discoveries did you make in the process that have found a place in your artistic intervention? Laura: I addressed the...