Posts Tagged with ‘UK’
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Coding in schools? Take the splinter from our eye perhaps?
06 Dec 2011As I wait for FTP to download a website from a server onto my laptop, I thought I would write…
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Denial, anger, depression, bargaining, adjustment: put the banking crisis behind us
18 Sep 2011Ladies and gentlemen, where are we are the path of psychological recovery after learning, not only that our country is…
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Living with meaning in a Zizek world
20 Aug 2011In my last two posts, I encouraged you to read Zizek in the original and gave you my take on…
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So 21st century: a Zizek moment
20 Aug 2011Zizek and the politics of our age Zizek, one of the most important thinkers of our age, tells us that…
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Not heard of ZIZEK? Why should you read ZIZEK?
20 Aug 2011I must say that a few months, I had not heard of ZIZEK. But we all should have heard of…
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Is the universe capable of having your city at its center?
01 Apr 2011Have we really imagined a universe with our own town or city as a centre. What kind of universe has Olney as its center? And what might I find in a universe that has New York, or Mumbai, or Beijing, or Lagos as its center? How can we deny the lens of the place we live? Do we not deny ourselves?
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If Big Society is the answer, what is the question?
12 Mar 2011Well, yes what was the question? Academics do know a thing or two. In this post, I try to translate (and connect) a recent article on Leadership by Keith Grint of Warwick BS to events in Egypt and the psychology of happy and lucky action. It is practical. It is connected. We know how; we are only waiting to try how.
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Happiness Index: Practical useful stuff
07 Jan 2011Get ahead of the Happiness Index. Do yourself some good with positive psychology. Watch Jane McGonigal speaking in London to see how it is done.
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Go students! But in solidarity
06 Dec 2010I am watching the student demonstrations about university fees with interest. Are they self-interested or is this the beginning of an effective political movement?
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Great Leaders, Great speeches: Jimmy Reid
16 Aug 2010I stumbled over Jimmy Reid's speech to Glasgow University in 1972. Jimmy Reid was a union leader in Glasgow. Four decades on, his speech is just as relevant and a fine piece of oratory. Here is a Wordle of his speech. I am going to do more work on it. Requests accepted!
