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Valuing death at home: making preparations
Health, Sports & Psychology

Valuing death at home: making preparations

...thinking about those similarities, as my daughter and I prepared for the birth of my granddaughter. We read the book Your Baby, Your Birth: the process of birth, how the body prepares, how to make plans and cope when those plans need to change. Where, I wonder, is a book about Your Death? [An elderly woman with a cup sitting outdoors on a terrace on a sunny day in...
Marketing in the 21st Century
Money & Business

Marketing in the 21st Century

...thinking intellectual challenge – thinking through complex organisational problems and developing strategies to support these working with smart people – because while the work is important to the company, you get to work with the smartest people (internally and externally) creativity – you are continually having to come up with new and innovative ways of doing...
Multiple Moonlets Maketh Mystery
Science, Maths & Technology

Multiple Moonlets Maketh Mystery

...system, which were unexplained by the pre-space exploration theories. Multiple impact Hypothesis However, like before, floors can still be found. It was Ringwood, the founder of the earlier disproved binary formation model, who exposed the flaws in the giant impact hypothesis and attempted to reimagine the theory. He stated in his 1989 paper “Collisions by much smaller...
The house doesn't always win
Digital & Computing

The house doesn't always win

...systems, to heating systems and lightbulbs can connect to the internet – either to receive content (such as movies and music), or to allow for remote monitoring (‘how warm is my house right now?’) or control (turn the oven on, I’m on my way home). The thermometer was used to monitor the water temperature in an aquarium and sent data over the casino’s wireless...
Difference and challenge in teams
Money & Business

Difference and challenge in teams

...think about what’s happening upstream. Water is gathered across a large area, rivulets spring up in very different places and meander along; they do their own thing for a while before converging. Where they meet there can be turbulence. Upstream, there will be sections of white-water, rapids and waterfalls. As with teams, the downstream observer doesn’t witness the...
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Fused deposition modelling (FDM)
Science, Maths & Technology

Fused deposition modelling (FDM)

...system. Three-dimensional structures can be formed by adding material onto previously deposited material...FDM cannot handle overhanging structures with much success. Therefore, systems are often equipped with a second extrusion head for depositing 'sacrificial' material. This is commonly dissolved in a solvent that does not affect the properties of the build material....
What is Blockchain?
Digital & Computing

What is Blockchain?

...system it is very open. In addition to the source code being openly available, a key feature of blockchains is that in principle every user has their own copy of the entire blockchain. In fact, there is no central or master copy, simply the multiple copies held by the volunteers in the user community. Volunteers are rewarded for their effort through a number of...
Social Science
Society, Politics & Law

Social Science

...systems of belief. Complementary approaches Comparing social and natural sciences, the need for both perspectives for full understanding. Influence of Social Science The impact the study of social science has had since the 19th century. Knowledge - what is it? The relative status of different kinds of knowledge, scientific knowledge and its supposed objectivity. The...
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