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Who is the World’s Largest Advertising Agency?
The British Monarchy are preparing to exploit new advertising opportunities and boost royal revenue during the 2012 Olympics in London. Photo credit: gokart.co.uk. Advertising agencies are everywhere,...
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An Open Letter to David Rutley MP on the Geek Manifesto
Mr David Rutley MP House of Commons London SW1A 0AA Dear David, The “Geek Manifesto” and the importance of science in politics Please find enclosed a copy of a new book by Mark Henderson, titled “The...
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Olympic Science: The Long Jump to Conclusions
Long jumper for Snohomish. Creative Commons licensed picture by by Philo Nordlund on Flickr If Science were an Olympic sport, which events would scientists excel at? During the Beijing Olympics in...
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Fellows of the Wiki Society? The Royal Society in London experiments with...
The wiki-wiki (quick) shuttle bus in Hawaii by xordroyd. Creative Commons licensed picture from Flickr. Regular readers of this blog might remember that back in June of this year, I suggested that the...
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Will Academic Education ever meet the skills needs of the IT Profession?...
“This house believes that Academic Education will never meet the skills needs of the IT Profession” via #BCSDebate Here’s an interesting upcoming event: a debate on the motion: “This house believes...
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Nine ideas for teaching Computing at School from the 2017 CAS conference
Delegates at the Computing at School conference 2017 #CASConf17 answering diagnostic questions, picture by Miles Berry. The Computing At School (CAS) conference is an annual event for educators, mostly...
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Are Liverpool and Manchester still in Lancashire?
The Red Rose of Lancaster is the county flower of Lancashire. Image by Sodacan, created with Inkscape. [CC BY-SA 3.0] via Wikimedia Commons.Once upon a time, there were two football teams, a Northern...
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Thank you Sara and Bhav at Wikimedia UK
Participants in the Training of Trainers workshop at the University of Glasgow, November 2019. Picture by Sara Thomas (WMUK) [CC BY-SA 4.0 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TtT_Group_Shot_2.jpgLast month...
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Thank you NHS 🙏
During an average lifetime, the human heart will beat more than 2.5 billion times. Amazing that it works at all, frankly. Computer generated cross section 3D model of the human heart via Wikimedia...
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Mind the gap at the end of the Elizabethan line
Elizabeth Line roundel by Transport for London via Wikimedia Commons w.wiki/5iib So we’ve finally reached the end of the Elizabethan line. Not the the CrossRail route that straddles London but the...
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