Reading for Battle
Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.
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Technology & The City
Sound Moves: IPod Culture and Urban Experience
Tthe Apple iPod acts as an urban Sherpa for many of its users and in doing so joins the mobile army of technologies that many of us habitually use to accompany our daily lives. Through our use of such mobile and largely sound based devices, Sound Moves demonstrates how and why the spaces of the city are being transformed right in front of our ears.
Michael Bull, Routledge, 12 December 2007
Mapping morality: the ethics of technology
From miltary hardware to medical science, technology provokes some tough moral questions.
Jonathan Weber, The Times, 19 November 2007
From miltary hardware to medical science, technology provokes some tough moral questions.
Jonathan Weber, The Times, 19 November 2007
What's the brain got to do with education?
Although current teacher training programmes generally omit the science of how we learn, an overwhelming number of the teachers surveyed felt neuroscience could make an important contribution in key educational areas.
Bristol University Press Release, 29 October 2007
Although current teacher training programmes generally omit the science of how we learn, an overwhelming number of the teachers surveyed felt neuroscience could make an important contribution in key educational areas.
Bristol University Press Release, 29 October 2007
Service design: how does it feel to be our patient?
An unusual change project drafted in anthropologists to explore patients' experiences.
Stuart Shepherd, Health Service Journal, 8 October 2007
An unusual change project drafted in anthropologists to explore patients' experiences.
Stuart Shepherd, Health Service Journal, 8 October 2007
Let’s research our own R&D record
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development may be right that the Chinese are sluggish on research and development. But the same is true of America and Europe.
James Woudhuysen, spiked, 30 August 2007
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development may be right that the Chinese are sluggish on research and development. But the same is true of America and Europe.
James Woudhuysen, spiked, 30 August 2007
Who Says Video Games Have to be Fun? The Rise of Serious Games
Headline-grabbing subjects like global warming or third-world poverty aren’t the only ones tackled in serious games. Some of the genre’s most captivating offerings take on topics that are a bit further from the limelight.
Bryan Ochalla, Gamasutra, 29 June 2007
Headline-grabbing subjects like global warming or third-world poverty aren’t the only ones tackled in serious games. Some of the genre’s most captivating offerings take on topics that are a bit further from the limelight.
Bryan Ochalla, Gamasutra, 29 June 2007
The truth about recycling
As technologies and materials allow greater possibilities for recycling, perhaps waste can be cast as a design flaw
staff writer, Economist, 6 June 2007
As technologies and materials allow greater possibilities for recycling, perhaps waste can be cast as a design flaw
staff writer, Economist, 6 June 2007
Is Shelter's use of children in campaigning the right tactic?
An exchange between the Chief Executive of Shelter and a social policy writer over the tactics of the ‘Stick it to bad housing campaign’
Adam Sampson and Dave Clements, Community Care, 30 May 2007
An exchange between the Chief Executive of Shelter and a social policy writer over the tactics of the ‘Stick it to bad housing campaign’
Adam Sampson and Dave Clements, Community Care, 30 May 2007
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