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Lifecycle of the Car Industry
Money & Business

Lifecycle of the Car Industry

...change, radical innovation to one of standardization, where the focus really began to be on producing cars much more efficiently, on making them much cheaper. What happened afterwards, the number of firms shot down. By 1940 in the US there were only a couple of dozens and in the eighties the big three - Ford, General Motors and Daimler-Chrysler". (Mazzucato) For the last...
Changemakers
Society, Politics & Law

Changemakers

...changes...Be a changemaker We live at a time of Welsh, UK, and global challenges—but, also, a time of possibility and opportunity. How can ordinary young Welsh citizens make a difference to these challenges? How can they be active citizens? How can they be Changemakers? We’ll show you how to make a difference by teaching you how to make political and social change....
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International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

International Relations

...change possible in international politics? Does it matter to international politics if states are democratic or not? And what is the importance of economic change, or gender relations to international politics? In the following seven films, some of the world's leading experts on international relations explore what determines how states and their agents behave in a...
How can statistics bring dead languages back to life?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can statistics bring dead languages back to life?

...changes in the statistics. “It’s more than an averaging process, it’s a continuum from one sound to the other,” adds Aston, who is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). “At each stage, we can turn the shape back into sound to hear how the word has changed.” Rather than reconstructing written forms of ancient words, the...
57 genders (and none for me?) - Part two
Society, Politics & Law

57 genders (and none for me?) - Part two

...change which allows users to pick from more gender options than 'male' and 'female'. In this concluding part she points to some of the problems. [A cartoon pigeon contemplates a collection of gender filing pigeonholes] So what are the problems with Facebook's new ways of capturing gender? Several people have asked whether there is a cynical aspect to the change, given...
Why do call centre staff use your name all the time, Chris?
Money & Business

Why do call centre staff use your name all the time, Chris?

...Changing society – changing language At the height of their expansion, at the turn of the millennium, 38% of all new jobs created in Britain were in call centres. Improvements in global IT infrastructure, deregulation of trade and the reduced cost of data transfer means call centres have become a hallmark of contemporary society. The replacement of face-to-face...
A sport transformed: Safety in motor-racing since 1969
Health, Sports & Psychology

A sport transformed: Safety in motor-racing since 1969

...changes to the sport...It is April 1969 and the forthcoming Belgian Grand Prix has been cancelled following a boycott of the race by the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association, an association made up of the best racing drivers in the World. Their boycott follows concerns that requests to install more crash barriers at the circuit in Spa have not been implemented and makes the...
Oxygen, blood and the body
Science, Maths & Technology

Oxygen, blood and the body

...climates, find a way of concentrating oxygen within their circulation systems. The first problem of circulation is largely a mechanical one; requiring a pump and pipes namely the heart and blood vessels. The second problem of increasing the concentration of oxygen within circulation systems is largely a chemical one. It is this problem and the biochemical systems that...