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...open to host the world through these events. But the ongoing doping scandal around Russian sports continues to do damage. It culminated with a ban on Russia’s participation in the 2018 Winter Olympics under its own flag and had been preceded by the doping controversy surrounding Russia’s most internationally recognisable athlete and celebrity, Maria Sharapova. Her...

...opening of Queen Victoria’s reign until the last decades of the 19th century, men, women and even children were amused by images and descriptions of murder and mutilation which would today be regarded as shocking and unfit for public consumption. Take, for instance, the popularity of increasingly elaborate pictures of execution. Some very crude depictions of hanging...

...Open University economics professor Mariana Mazzucato (2013) suggests that most of the technology in smart phones started, not with private business, but with the government (mainly through research for the defence industry). The private sector has a role to play in innovation, but often takes a short-term view, focusing on a quick return to shareholders, and will not...

...Open University modules. As the module title suggests, sharing in a broad sense is a central concept in DST206 Environment: Sharing a Dynamic Planet. More specifically, non-market sharing and other forms of informal and diverse economies in the food system are explored in Block 5: Food, most prominently in Chapter 7 Beyond the ABC model: from biotechnology to ‘grow your...