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Keeping the spark of the 60s alive: Neil Young and a sense of place
History & The Arts

Keeping the spark of the 60s alive: Neil Young and a sense of place

...social activism. [Neil Young playing Mainz in 2014] Neil Young in 2014 Professor Martin Halliwell from the University of Leicester’s Centre for American Studies has just published Neil Young: American Traveller, the first book to systematically focus on the importance of place and travel in the songwriter’s music, films, memoirs, and social activism. The book claims...
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Ads of our time – are teens susceptible to food ads in digital media?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ads of our time – are teens susceptible to food ads in digital media?

...social media in the lives of young people are frequently discussed. One topic that gets less of an airing is teens’ exposure to extensive marketing and advertising in digital media. Should this be a concern? Aren’t young people sensible enough to be aware of what ads are trying to do – and savvy enough to know how to ignore them? The World Health Organization has...
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Can comedy change your life?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can comedy change your life?

...social function, from breaking taboos to holding those in power to account. Avner Ziv, who has written numerous books about humour, explores this theme extensively. As he writes in Personality and Sense of Humor, “comedy and satire possess a common denominator in that both try to change or reform society by means of humor. The two forms together constitute the best...
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How can Facebook decide who you really are?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can Facebook decide who you really are?

...social network is overstepping its boundaries by demanding proof of identity without having proper policies in place to protect its users...My friend Sands Fish is a data scientist and a grad student at MIT, and, like most people in his demographic, he uses Facebook. But Sands took an unplanned break from the platform this summer when Facebook sent him an automated...
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Using art and creative methods to interrogate identity, citizenship and migration
Society, Politics & Law

Using art and creative methods to interrogate identity, citizenship and migration

...socially significant questions of the moment. This will be of interest to you if you are studying the arts or social sciences, particularly if you are interested in thinking about what participation means today, what national, supra-national and local identities mean, and how research is relevant for our everyday lives. This connects to many of the current and future...
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Buddhist Economics
Society, Politics & Law

Buddhist Economics

...social objectives or profit maximisation – or are they even compatible? During a trip to Burma in 1955, Ernest Schumacher pioneered the concept of Buddhist Economics, a set of principles based on the belief that the function of business is to supply goods and services for need and true well-being. Schumacher argued that Buddhist Economics could serve as a vehicle for...
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Design Essentials: are you sitting comfortably?
Science, Maths & Technology

Design Essentials: are you sitting comfortably?

...social responsibility: Gerrit Rietveld’s Crate Chair Designs don’t just have utilitarian or aesthetic functions they can also have economic, social and political ones. Here Emma Curtis, of the Design Museum, discusses examples of designs that are driven by social responsibility. Semantics and form: Tom Dixon’s Crown Chair By the end of the 60s, modernist principles...
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Birth of the Welfare State
History & The Arts

Birth of the Welfare State

...social welfare was William Beveridge. His report, Social Insurance and Allied Services was compiled as the war at its height. In it Beveridge set out a plan to put an end to what he called the 'five giants' - Want (today we could call it poverty), Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness (unemployment). The centrepiece was a state-run system of compulsory insurance. Every...
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