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Creating a different world: Celebrating Ursula K LeGuin
History & The Arts

Creating a different world: Celebrating Ursula K LeGuin

...attention spans, this is a major achievement. Challenging race and gender norms But Le Guin’s beautifully crafted prose also had a sharp edge. She consciously set off to question what came before her in fantasy and science fiction, especially in terms of race and gender. She was outspoken about the “colour scheme” of her Earthsea series. She wrote: I didn’t see...
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About the stroop test
Education & Development

About the stroop test

...Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD. Psychologists have developed tests that help us to assess an individual’s inhibitory control. Usually, these tests require someone to suppress an automatic response in order to perform the task correctly. A classic example of such a test is the Stroop test. The Stroop test uses word reading as an automatic process. Most of us find it...
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How is Italy reinventing the co-op?
Money & Business

How is Italy reinventing the co-op?

...attention to everyone’s stories.” Open Group is just one of many social cooperatives that are branching out from caregiving to explore other ways of providing public services and boosting the common good. In Forli, a center for agricultural cooperatives 40 miles southeast of Bologna, the For.b cooperative handles trash hauling, recycling, pest control, park...
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‘It’s Just Banter’: Women and Sexual Harassment in the Hospitality Industry
Society, Politics & Law

‘It’s Just Banter’: Women and Sexual Harassment in the Hospitality Industry

...attention. Working in bars at that time was too often distressing and dangerous for me. As a young student, I worked there out of necessity, rather than choice. The everyday sexism and sexual assault I was subjected to has never completely left me. It is never just banter. Night at the Hotel – A Poem by Hilary Jones Hilary Jones worked in the hospitality industry from...
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How can governments ensure their cybersecurity is strong?
Digital & Computing

How can governments ensure their cybersecurity is strong?

...attention and accolades from federal partners, other state government executives, researchers, and information technology professionals. But more so than the good press and accolades, the importance of the CDRP, and the broader Cyber Disruption Response process that it is part of, are indicative of some of the reasons that Michigan’s approach to cyber security seems...
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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?

...attention to itself and could indicate an artificial origin. However, some natural processes can give rise to periodic signals too. The pulses could be due to something like solar flares coming from the red dwarf star (a small and relatively cool star). Such stars are indeed prone to this type of activity, but the researchers say the radio pulses are unlike anything ever...
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COP26 Glasgow and questions of environmental and social justice
Society, Politics & Law

COP26 Glasgow and questions of environmental and social justice

...attention on the city. In recent decades Glasgow has been portrayed as an example of a city that has undergone a successful ‘transformation’ from an industrial hub to a vibrant ‘post-industrial’ centre. The complex, uneven, conflicting and ever-changing entanglements of Glasgow’s social and economic needs with matters of environmental health and wellbeing are...
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Mo Mowlam and The Good Friday Agreement
Society, Politics & Law

Mo Mowlam and The Good Friday Agreement

...attention at the moment as the world marks the 25 year Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. I wrote a piece in 2018 in which I insinuated that Mo’s name seemed to be being overlooked at some of the most public facing celebrations of the 20 year anniversary by key figures and leaders and it would be wrong of me not to note now how much recognition she and many of...
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