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Welcome to nowhere special
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Welcome to nowhere special

...opening up of lifestyles to new experiential spaces and horizons” as Adam Jaworski shows in a 2015 paper entitled “Globalese.”. One linguistic form that banal cosmopolitanism may take is the excessive use of new letterforms, punctuation marks, diacritics, and tittles. Their use, particularly in brand and shop names, serves to create “novel, foreignized,...
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What are the challenges and opportunities of urban artificial intelligence and robotics?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are the challenges and opportunities of urban artificial intelligence and robotics?

...open data, data streams from both key infrastructure networks (energy, transport, water) and other relevant sensor networks (e.g. weather and pollution data), data crowdsourced from social media and mobile applications. First, smart city developments provide data to human actors in urban governance networks for decision-support purposes. In contrast, AI-based technologies...
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Is the blue plaque scheme still relevant?
History & The Arts

Is the blue plaque scheme still relevant?

...that blue plaque schemes can help open up conversations about what we want to remember and what we may need to forget. On the 160th anniversary of the blue plaque scheme, it’s a good time to rethink what legacy each plaque leaves behind. As well as what legacies are still missing from the heritage landscape so that it represents the rich and diverse world we live in....
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What happens ‘When East Meets West’?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens ‘When East Meets West’?

...open and accepting attitude towards others. The second group are the staff who work tirelessly to teach and support students from all different cultural backgrounds. By better understanding the experiences of those we teach, we can better serve them. The third group are the institutions - encouraging staff and students from all different backgrounds to join forces e.g....
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A Clockwork Orange: ultraviolence, Russian spies and fake news
Languages

A Clockwork Orange: ultraviolence, Russian spies and fake news

...Nixonian, “with no shred of optimism in it”. He concluded: “America prefers the other, more violent, ending. Who am I to say America is wrong? It’s all a matter of choice.” [The Conversation] Philip Seargeant, Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, The Open University This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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Music and mental health: the parallels between Victorian asylum treatments and modern social prescribing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Music and mental health: the parallels between Victorian asylum treatments and modern social prescribing

...a range of social, emotional and intellectual needs. Given what we know now about the benefit of music on mental health, it’s no wonder doctors are making use of it again.[The Conversation] Rosemary Golding, Senior Lecturer in Music, The Open University This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article....
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Recovery at the Rugby World Cup
Health, Sports & Psychology

Recovery at the Rugby World Cup

...opening match against South Africa. Consequently sports performers often employ recovery strategies to speed up and maximise their recovery between matches. Three commonly used strategies are cryotherapy, compression clothing and massage. Cryotherapy Cryotherapy can be defined as the lowering of tissue temperature in order to achieve a therapeutic objective (in this case...
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Paris Attacks: Social media is the villain of the piece, and the hero of the hour
Digital & Computing

Paris Attacks: Social media is the villain of the piece, and the hero of the hour

...open expression online, free of the mediation of journalists – were at the heart of the wave of attacks in Paris. As events unfolded, witnesses reflexively got out their cellphones and shot live coverage of what was happening before their eyes. These amateur images were then relayed by media both online and on TV. Thus the first images of the Bataclan attack, filmed...
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