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Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...et al., that everyone follows everyone else. This is the mutual surveillance game. Interestingly, anti-surveillance tools have much in common with the double agency of a different era – and with a poetics of disappearance and desubjectivation. So again, this is part of what engaging piracy on its own terrain can do: it opens up our analysis of the computational...
Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list

...circulating theories: While Olympics officials in Rio have assured the public that the dark green water doesn't pose a risk to the athletes who have to swim in it, they've not been able to explain what's behind the sudden colour change. "To ensure a high quality field of play is mandatory to Rio 2016 committee," organisers said in a statement. "Water tests at Maria Lenk...
Can comedy change your life?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can comedy change your life?

...circulate after 9/11 if we weren’t collectively grasping for ways to parse how unsettling and disruptive it was? Humour that is in bad taste or cruelly targeted at particular groups may generate conflict, but, for Weems, humour is our way of working through difficult subjects or feelings. [Negin Farsad] Negin Farsad Over the years, researchers have built a substantial...
Reading and note taking – preparation for study
Society, Politics & Law

Reading and note taking – preparation for study

...doubled, possibly trebled, from the two teams of six currently involved. A total of 280 children have been returned home over the past year. Five were charged with offences. Seventy per cent were boys, 14 per cent were aged under eight years old, and almost ten per cent were drunk. Sixty-one children have been taken home in the last six months compared with 221 in the...
David Allen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

David Allen - Earth in Vision

...double up in those senses. And so often we do use key images of archive from broadcasters to build sequences around, and we then film our own bits around it and create our own story around those images, but definitely in terms of natural history we should absolutely be allowed, be able to use that and not duplicate those efforts. Giving it out to the public, giving it out...
An introduction to energy resources
Nature & Environment

An introduction to energy resources

...double the global average. Figure 1.5b, which shows the amount of lighting seen from space at night, gives a graphic picture of the inequalities of energy use. Figure 1.5 (a) Energy consumption by region, in GJ per person per year, 2004. (b) Composite satellite image of the Earth at night. The white areas show outside lighting. In 2002, UK primary energy used was the...
Everyday maths 1 (Northern Ireland)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1 (Northern Ireland)

...double-check your calculations using an alternative method. There are different methods you can use, and the one you choose will probably depend on the calculation. One very good way of checking calculations is to carry out a reverse calculation, or an inverse calculation as it was called earlier in this session. This is where you use the opposite type of sum (or opposite...
Teaching the First World War
Education & Development

Teaching the First World War

...et Decorum est’ (1918) Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs, And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots, But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots Of...
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