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Avoid being held to ransom by SamSam
Digital & Computing

Avoid being held to ransom by SamSam

...business licences could not be issued; court warrants could not be validated; and the malware crippled the city’s police computers requiring officers to hand write crime reports. As well as these direct problems, other parts of the city’s infrastructure – such as the wireless network at the gigantic Atlanta International airport – were shut down as a precautionary...
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Why Study Philosophers?
History & The Arts

Why Study Philosophers?

...business of refining your thoughts, the universities provide a space in which one can debate the kinds of concerns that interested our six philosophers. It might be that you would not end up studying exactly our six (at The Open University you would read Wittgenstein, Marx and Rousseau, but not Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Arendt). However, the concerns are recognisably the...
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Why is snow so hard to predict?
Nature & Environment

Why is snow so hard to predict?

...busy. We don’t know everything It is important to realise that there is still lots about how weather works that we just don’t understand. Even where we do have a good understanding, we need to simplify things so that our computers are capable of processing all the information we have in time to make a useful forecast. Some computer programs are so complex they take...
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Collective Creativity
Money & Business

Collective Creativity

...business and consumers, film goers, want to see something new and this newness goes hand in hand with taking risk. We cannot accurately predict whether or not it will be successful. If risk is minimised then this could result in predictability and this may go some way to explain why the themes of films are becoming more similar. It may also explain why some films are...
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Telephone bereavement support: does it work?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Telephone bereavement support: does it work?

...busy life can be a challenge too. For instance, for someone whose partner has died, there can be additional childcare and work responsibilities, that often take priority over individual needs. Becoming increasingly time and income poor is a common experience for those whose partner has died. However, accessing support via phone provides options for fitting support around...
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Do people need Peeple?
Digital & Computing

Do people need Peeple?

...business model for online services however, it’s not so strange that someone would equate people and products in this way. After all, internet companies do it all the time when they harvest and trade personal data without truly informed consent. Or, as it was put in a Washington Post article: The most surprising thing about Peeple — basically Yelp, but for humans —...
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The benefits of a longer product life
Science, Maths & Technology

The benefits of a longer product life

...van Hinte, E. and Zljlstra, Y. (2014) Products that last -product design for circular business models. Amsterdam: BIS Publishers. The World Counts (2021) Electronic Revolution = E-Waste. Available at: https://www.theworldcounts.com/stories/electronic-waste-facts (Accessed: 12 October 2021). [Screenshot of animation for COP26] Click on the banner to explore the COP26 hub...
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Climate change and the built environment
Science, Maths & Technology

Climate change and the built environment

...business as usual won’t do this, however many new buildings claiming to be ‘net zero (operational) carbon’ are built, and however many heat pumps are installed. First, we must retrofit as if our lives depended on it – as possibly they do. Fortunately retrofit also helps us adapt our built environment for future climates so that we can remain comfortable and safe....
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