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Selling Empire: Film
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Film

...institutions to hire, but was also influential in the more general development of a British documentary tradition. Film makers and producers such as John Grierson (who is widely credited with coining the term ‘documentary’ in 1926) had the freedom to experiment, as in One Family, Song of Ceylon, and Grierson’s silent documentary Drifters (1929). Drifters in...
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Sofas, car seats and toilet seats: where are your tweets read?
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Sofas, car seats and toilet seats: where are your tweets read?

...institutions also promote their wares on Twitter and other social media. The holy grail? Engagement with potential customers / employers / employees / students... Research has been carried out into all sorts of aspects of using Twitter to engage people as well as to teach and learn among many other uses. We have a fair amount of data on how people engage with Twitter, how...
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The Italian Patient: Health care in Renaissance Italy
History & The Arts

The Italian Patient: Health care in Renaissance Italy

...institutions, to provide food, lodging, spiritual fulfilment and medical care for the poor. During the Renaissance hospitals came increasingly to specialise; some continued to look after the poor, others became orphanages. Santa Maria Nuova looked after the sick poor. Thinking History What do Renaissance hospitals tell us about? Not just about medicine, but also about...
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Shaken and stirred? Blending the familiar and new in Bond’s music
History & The Arts

Shaken and stirred? Blending the familiar and new in Bond’s music

...institution. We can certainly consider the musical richness of Bond’s world and the composers who have written for the series. But two things immediately spring to mind: the songs that accompany the main title, and the Bond theme. The former can be used as a barometer of public taste in popular music, and has become increasingly important to the films’ commercial...
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Kant on trust
History & The Arts

Kant on trust

...institutions is in decline. To understand why a “crisis of trust” is so serious, we must take account of the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, who placed honesty and trustworthiness at the heart of his theory of how we should live. Kant (1724-1804) spent his whole life in Königsberg, in Prussia, and taught at the local university. He produced some of the most profound...
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A socially engaged spiritual response to the Climate Crisis
Nature & Environment

A socially engaged spiritual response to the Climate Crisis

...Institute of Technology, Bangkok) in 2005–2006 to further develop my knowledge and skills to engage in sustainability. But I also got an opportunity to learn about alternative education and sustainable development at the Grassroot Leadership Training (GLT) from the Spirit in Education Movement (SEM), a Thai based NGO, where I could deeply connect with nature and...
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A Clockwork Orange: ultraviolence, Russian spies and fake news
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A Clockwork Orange: ultraviolence, Russian spies and fake news

...Institute's celebration of Stanley Kubrick. Here Philip Seargeant delves into the famous and film, and dystopia in popular culture...The writer Anthony Burgess is most famous for his novel, A Clockwork Orange. What's intriguing is how the book was once drawn into a world of Russian espionage, fake news and paranoia. During his lifetime, Burgess wrote over 30 novels, 25...
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EdTech Evidence: What works and why
Education & Development

EdTech Evidence: What works and why

...Institute and UNESCO’s frameworks have been key in this space, highlighting the connection between green and digital education. Some frameworks combine two or more Es in their considerations. For example, the UNICEF EdTech4Good Curation Framework taps into several ‘Es’ in that it requires that solutions are both ethically designed and efficacious. The more we...
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