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John Perry Barlow: An Appreciation
Science, Maths & Technology

John Perry Barlow: An Appreciation

...business model that would turn Facebook and Google into two of the World’s largest companies. Barlow’s Declaration came as a response to early attempts to police the Internet. A number of countries, most notably the United States, introduced laws favouring large companies that had the effect of crushing freedom of expression. By contrast, Barlow saw the internet as an...
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Should we tax robots who replace humans in the workplace?
Money & Business

Should we tax robots who replace humans in the workplace?

...businesses investing in automation. Discussions about automation tax policy and legislative solutions are in their very early stages. How automation helps tax avoidance In an article forthcoming in the Harvard Law and Policy Review, we argue that existing tax policies encourage automation, even when a person would be more efficient than a machine. That’s because...
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Stuck in the middle of a pandemic: are international students migrants?
Society, Politics & Law

Stuck in the middle of a pandemic: are international students migrants?

...business of higher education. They are not consumers but part of the very fabric of higher education, even though this was always ignored. The coronavirus pandemic has starkly exposed this financial dependence that the higher education sector has on high-fee-paying international students, with institutions already clamping down on staff recruitment and preparing for the...
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Where do we get the help that really counts?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Where do we get the help that really counts?

...busy professionals with their problems (Meltzer, 2000). So more informal ways of accessing support can be very important and contact with someone who is non-judgemental and willing to listen can help in making the first steps towards recovery. It is not only family and friends who can help; support from other people who have been through similar problems (peer support)...
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Lighting the Industrial Revolution
History & The Arts

Lighting the Industrial Revolution

...businesses. Why did it take so long to develop the humble light bulb (1879), if electricity had been discovered and studied for more than a century before that date? It was the invention of the battery by Count Alessandro Volta in 1800 which marked a turning point in understanding and controlling the strange "fluid". For the first time, electricity could be produced by...
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Messaging apps – paying attention and timing it right
Languages

Messaging apps – paying attention and timing it right

...businesses and advertisers compete to gain people’s attention in order to boost sales. They do this because otherwise their message or product gets lost in the overwhelming amount of information that circulates on the internet. [Three young women sitting down, all looking at one smart phone] Attention is important to our personal online interactions, too. In a world of...
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The realities of rural life in the 1950s-1980s
OpenLearn Ireland

The realities of rural life in the 1950s-1980s

...busy on was to rectify that and there was no pipework up to any house, and by means of what they call the group water scheme we got practically all the houses here supplied, and also I kept up a drum fire of agitation about the roads. There was only one tarmacadamed road here. So we got all the spur roads tarmacadamed and that gave the people a certain amount of...
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Climate of fear: culture of hope
Languages

Climate of fear: culture of hope

...businesses who are contributing to the problem deny responsibility or push back against plans for addressing it. But if public opinion creates enough pressure, the government is forced to act, creating regulations and standards which force change on the corporations, who then adapt their practices and technology. So public opinion is vital, both in demanding action over...
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