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From Zero Day to Doomsday – Public Lecture
Digital & Computing

From Zero Day to Doomsday – Public Lecture

...writing about aspects of computer security from malicious software to cybercrime and cyberwar. Mike’s lecture is inspired by his teaching for the OU Module TM112 Introduction to computing and information technology, which will run from April October 2018. In From Zero Day to Doomsday, Mike will focus on the potential threat from hidden software bugs that are being...
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Sartre & de Beauvoir, Guevara & Castro: When the existentialists met the revolutionaries
History & The Arts

Sartre & de Beauvoir, Guevara & Castro: When the existentialists met the revolutionaries

...write quite breathlessly about Castro – and was absolutely clear in his support – there is a subtle tension in his writing that reveals something troubling him about the bearded comandante. They visit a now-public beach being developed for internal tourism. They are given warm soft drinks. Castro asks why there is no ice. Because, replies one of the three slightly...
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How Trump tweets
Society, Politics & Law

How Trump tweets

...shortly after Donald Trump assumed office, Dr John Jewell observed that a new role hadn't changed the President's social media behaviour...[Donald Trump campaigns in Laconia] Another day, another tweet, another incident. This time Donald Trump, the prolific and seemingly indiscriminate tweeter who just happens to be leader of the free world has damaged diplomatic
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The nature of history
Education & Development

The nature of history

...writing, I thought it was all over. We had in fact hardly started; there were illustrations to find, exercises to devise, websites to organise, primary sources (evidence created at the time) to be chased up; and suggestions for visits and other interesting activities to suggest. Delivery of history has changed too beyond all recognition. No more endless copying down of...
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Why books are a lifeline for prisoners
Society, Politics & Law

Why books are a lifeline for prisoners

...writing and telling stories can help put the disorder and unhappiness of life life into some sort of shape. It allows empathy for others. Our conversation was surprisingly upbeat, with the focus on the future rather than the grim present. Back in London, there have been anguished protests from authors, with many a reference to hope, fairness, decency, to the reading of...
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Socrates - Teacher, Paragon or Chatterbox?
History & The Arts

Socrates - Teacher, Paragon or Chatterbox?

...writing histories, or teaching ambitious young men how to get on. For Socrates, though, there was only one question that mattered: how can we live good lives? And by ‘a good life’ he didn’t mean a life packed with power, or money, or fame. He meant an ethically good life: the life of someone who is courageous, temperate, pious and just; above all, someone who is...
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Should we read John Locke today?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we read John Locke today?

...write legal documents that protected slave ‘owners’. How, then, should we approach what seems to be a double standard: freedom for some but not all? To what extent should we draw upon – or disregard – thinkers who lived in a vastly different world to ours, and correspondingly held very different beliefs? To explore these questions, you are first going to look at...
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Impossible Peace 2: The murders at Massereene
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: The murders at Massereene

...writing moments when I thought carefully about every word; about whether I would be understood or misunderstood. The Belfast Telegraph used my photograph alongside a short blurb: How - after Saturday - do you begin to explain to people that the dissidents are not an IRA? That Saturday was March 7th 2009; when another murder scene was painted onto the canvas of an...
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