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Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake
Science, Maths & Technology

Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake

...paradox because the great physicist Enrico Fermi thought through all of the thinking which is behind all of this business and realised that at least the idea that many civilisations in space and that they’ve become very advanced and he would expect that some of them would have embarked on space travel and visited here or perhaps even colonised the Earth. And as far as...
Taking a Fresh Look at Managing Employee Engagement and Wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Taking a Fresh Look at Managing Employee Engagement and Wellbeing

...paradox, with both greater levels of engagement, and negative emotions that impact on wellbeing, demonstrating the extremely polarizing work-life experiences resulting from the pandemic! This is an important insight for leaders when managing remote teams: when capitalising on the advantages of having employees who work from home, there must also be mechanisms in place to...
Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...paradoxically, this freedom is accompanied by a form of illegitimacy vis-à-vis the struggle for power, since it is existence beyond accountability. This is also the paradox of anonymity: it only exists as a collective ensemble of sociality (beyond itself) once it registers within the parameters of control, even if it does so as disruption. Which is why we not only want...
Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...paradox of choice. ...Making creativity and innovation happen: Introduction - Creativity and innovation address ways of doing things better and differently. This free course, Making creativity and innovation happen, focuses both on individual creativity – where it comes from and how it can be developed – and organisational creativity and the related concept of...
Will a new European law mean YouTube has to monitor your uploads?
Society, Politics & Law

Will a new European law mean YouTube has to monitor your uploads?

...paradoxically, seem designed to legally compel voluntary action by platforms. One important vehicle for this change is a draft revision to the Audio Visual Media Services (AVMS) Directive. The draft AVMS Directive expands broadcast-style regulations to video hosting platforms. It gives them major, but ill-defined, new duties to prevent users from sharing videos that...
Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list

...Paradoxically, if they are to be preserved they may have to be suspended. The very ideas of progress, emancipation and improvement are no longer part of the political discourse. It is hardly surprising. Insecurity and uncertainty are becoming endemic, even if the chances of actually being directly affected by such events remains vanishingly small. Read: The Nice attack...
Will we ever be able to trust an AI sports coach?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Will we ever be able to trust an AI sports coach?

...Paradoxical tensions related to AI-powered evaluation systems in competitive sports’, Inf Syst Front, 24, pp. 897–922. Available at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10796-021-10215-8. Sperlich, B., Düking, P., Leppich, R. and Holmberg, H-C. (2023) ‘Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats associated with the application of artificial...
A modest liking for Liverpool
History & The Arts

A modest liking for Liverpool

...paradox, and I was not overjoyed by the inevitable ugliness of the brick villas of the suburbs into which these obdurate streets decayed. But then, after divers tram changes, came the consolation of beautiful riverside beaches, thronged with people who looked gay at that distance, and beyond the Mersey rose the Welsh hills, blue, blue. III At the end of the tram-line,...