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Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?

...think in scales of global economic tides and social values, but the individual, workplace, family or locality is easier to apprehend and to alter. A political aspect of open methodologies is that they approach methods not in terms of grand narratives, but as practices through which worlds are enacted. This is a reaction to, and qualified rejection of, that research which...
War Memorials
History & The Arts

War Memorials

...systems: witness the frequent references to God, nation, king, and empire on First World War memorials. They also illustrate altering (and persisting) artistic tastes: compare the Islington memorial – which is an example of art nouveau – with the Poplar one, which reaches back into the nineteenth century in its determinedly Victorian Gothic symbolism. Many British war...
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Can dogs read their owners' emotions?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can dogs read their owners' emotions?

...thinking? Can your dog empathise? It's possible, suggests new research...Can dogs tell when we are happy, sad or angry? As a dog owner, I feel confident not only that I can tell what kind of emotional state my pets are in, but also that they respond to my emotions. Yet as a hard-headed scientist, I try to take a more rational and pragmatic view. These personal...
Academic versus AI
Science, Maths & Technology

Academic versus AI

...systems contain inherent biases, AI applications in higher education might inadvertently exacerbate existing inequalities. For example, biased algorithms could impact admissions processes, exacerbating disparities in educational opportunities. Moreover, there's the risk of over-reliance on AI, potentially diminishing the human touch crucial for effective teaching and...
Herbal medicine
Health, Sports & Psychology

Herbal medicine

...thinking was along the lines of "why give a patient a herb tea with an indeterminate amount of active ingredients, when it is possible to administer a small white pill with precisely measured amounts?" And so drugs such as digoxin, derived originally from foxgloves, and aspirin, based on chemicals found in meadowsweet and willow bark, were isolated and then synthesised...
US Election 2016: A last week reading list
Society, Politics & Law

US Election 2016: A last week reading list

...thinking about where we'll be with the US election next week. In the meantime, here's a small dip into the many thousands of pieces being published about the face-off: As if the shifting of the opinion polls wasn't complicated enough, Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight explains why it's getting more likely that Hillary could win the most votes, and Donald still wind up as...
Wales and rugby
Society, Politics & Law

Wales and rugby

...think Welsh rugby has a fairly unique nature certainly within the UK and possibly even at a worldwide level. There has from – almost from the very beginning been a strong, working class presence in the game in Wales, certainly started in the 1870’s and 1880’s when the game arrived in England from the English public schools and universities and it initially made an...
What are Donald Trump's politics?
Society, Politics & Law

What are Donald Trump's politics?

...political climate away from existing debates about left and right. In this audio Tendayi Bloom asks Geoff Andrews and Richard Heffernan about the ‘populist’ politics of Donald Trump, how that form of politics might unfold within the constraints of the US politics system and about the rise of populism more widely. Select here for a copy of the transcript of this audio...