Theseus's Ship

please click on the link below:
https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/wi-phi/wiphi-metaphysics-epistemology/wiphi-metaphysics/v/ship-of-theseus

Russian money and the UK

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/may/25/how-britain-let-russia-hide-its-dirty-money

Is advertising the only model for online companies?

Power is concentrated in the hands of a few large platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google. These platforms control which opinions are seen and shared.
All these platforms accept that the Russian entities bought advertising on their sites in an attempt to skew the vote in the US Presidential election.

 Tim Berners-Lee, the "father of the internet", argues that regulation is needed for a more diverse range of online content.

Article in the Guardian by Olivia Solomon
to read the full article, please click on the link below:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/11/tim-berners-lee-tech-companies-regulations?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H+categories&utm_term=267040&subid=8253140&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2

Pity and Fear

I like the word Hamartia - derived from archery, meaning well intentioned but missing the mark.

What makes the human brain special?

What makes the human brain special? - The answer may surprise you!

Wibbitz and other AI

We are the product being sold

Our Minds can be hijacked

An article in the Guardian by Paul Lewis about the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia.
 

For the full article, please click on the link below:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/05/smartphone-addiction-silicon-valley-dystopia

How our humanity is eroded at the workplace

Article in the Guardian by Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger about the origins of management theories from the beginning of the century that are turning us into robots in the workplace.



(click on the link below to read the full article:)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/25/robots-taken-over-work-jobs-economy

I am what I remember? - the memory wars

article in the Guardian by Holly Watts summarising both sides of the memory wars including interviews with Nicole Kluemper and Elizabeth Loftus
(for the full article please click on the link below:)
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/sep/23/inside-case-of-repressed-memory-nicole-kluemper

New Afrobeats with Verona Patterson

Class at dance-works - looks interesting!
http://danceworks.net/teachers/verona-patterson/

How to write screenplays using Microsoft word

Step-by-step instruction from this wikiHow
http://www.wikihow.com/Write-Screenplays-Using-Microsoft-Word#Using_Style_and_Formatting_sub

Under-representation of disabled and over 50s

Article in the Guardian by Graham Ruddick about  the most under-represented groups: disabled and over 50s.
The article is illustrated by a stereotypical wheelchair!
(please click on the link below)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/aug/23/disabled-people-and-over-50s-most-under-represented-groups-in-broadcasting?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Media+briefing+2016&utm_term=240912&subid=8253140&CMP=ema_546

Jon Snow: Grenfell and the social divide

Article in the Guardian by Graham Ruddick about how Jon Snow spoke out at the MacTaggart Lecture and warned that lack of diversity in the media and other institutions is damaging society.
Please click on link below to read full article:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/aug/23/jon-snow-grenfell-mactaggart-media-diversity

The big idea that defines our era

Article from the Guardian's the long read by Stephen Metcalf
to read the full article, please click on the link below:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/aug/18/neoliberalism-the-idea-that-changed-the-world

Cake and Cream: a poem from our German friends

For those who enjoyed the snippet of @EugenAFreund's #EUref poem featured on @LastWeekTonight here's the full thing:https://t.co/mT5X5X50q8

— S&D Group (@TheProgressives) 20 June 2016

A Robot says Goodbye

You are Cyborg

For Donna Haraway, we are already assimilated.

The monster opens the curtains of Victor Frankenstein's bed. Schwarzenegger tears back the skin of his forearm to display a gleaming skeleton of chrome and steel. Tetsuo's skin bubbles as wire and cable burst to the surface. These science fiction fevered dreams stem from our deepest concerns about science, technology, and society. With advances in medicine, robotics, and AI, they're moving inexorably closer to reality. When technology works on the body, our horror always mingles with intense fascination.

Full article from Wired below:

http://www.wired.com/1997/02/ffharaway/

MetaLab videos: the brain's introspective ability, metacognition, etc

MetaLab: videos about the brain's introspective ability and metacognition: see link below


http://metacoglab.org/media/

Awake during Brain Surgery

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/07/been-anywhere-nice-this-year-brain-surgery-where-patients-are-kept-chatting