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Cultural Theory and the Public Benefit Requirement
Fettes College One of the private schools in Edinburgh. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) WB of Down at Third Man asked for a Cultural Theory perspective on the concept of ‘public benefit’ as it applies to the...
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magic and technology
Prof Alan Jacobs wants to know whether magic and technology can learn to get along with each other. He laments the dominant tone of fantasy literature that sees natural magic opposed to cultural...
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The really real reason why banks have so many scandals
“Since we have not more power of knowing the future than any other men, we have made many mistakes (who has not during the past five years?), but our mistakes have been errors of judgment and not of...
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Friends, colleagues, or partners – what’s your favourite collaboration style?
Matthew Taylor of the RSA, blogs about collaboration styles in education… Oiling the System.
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A Simple Primer on Cultural Cognition
A Simple Primer on Cultural Cognition The New Republic has a short summary of the cultural cognition project: how to talk to climate change deniers. Those who ‘deny’ climate change aren’t mad, deluded...
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New Ways of Working
New Ways of Working This white paper is worth reading and owes quite a lot to the cultural theory understanding of organisations. (Found at...
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How to inspire people with prize money
Would you put in more effort if you thought you could win a large cash prize? What about if that prize was broken up into a series of smaller prizes – how hard would you work then? ‘In praise of big...
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The feedback loop as a symbol for life in the 21st Century
self-organisation is a high-level property that emerges from the underlying network, not a feature of any of the individual components. This has interesting consequences. Where any part of the...
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Apparently, “Science Confirms The Obvious: Strict Parents Raise Conservative...
“Science Confirms The Obvious: Strict Parents Raise Conservative Kids” – http://pulse.me/s/eC9fb If so, would it be possible to conduct similar experiments to test whether parents with a particularly...
View ArticleWhy are people so conflicted about the right response to the pandemic?
Is there a cultural theory perspective on the COVID pandemic of 2020-21? Of course there is: Davy, Benjamin. “Social Distancing and Cultural Bias: On the Spatiality of COVID-19.” Journal of the...
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