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No comments onIf you like tales of derring-do, you must check out John Bull’s three-part story, The Plane that Accidentally Circumnavigated the World, about the California Clipper seaplane in the midst of WW2.
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Lovely to see the London cast strut their stuff.
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This House & Rhinoceros
Saw a couple of plays in Edinburgh recently: This House is about the efforts of whips to maintain the shaky Labour government from 1974-79. When it premiered in 2012, a time when the most exciting thing in British politics was the coalition government between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, it doubtless felt like an exciting, topical…
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What teaching techniques work best?
The Education Endowment Foundation has produced a very readable evidence-based list of the best ways to improve teaching and learning. The top two methods? Useful feedback and metacognition and self-regulation, aka. ‘learning how to learn’. Both are cheap, effective, and are backed up by solid evidence.
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Update: It was a joke, haha The creators of Westworld are asking Reddit whether they should release the entire plot of Season 2 in advance, to prevent fan theories from spoiling the plot: Many thanks for your great questions and thoughts. As I’ve said before, I’ve been a member of the reddit community for years…
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Facebook: We will also require people who manage large pages to be verified as well. This will make it much harder for people to run pages using fake accounts, or to grow virally and spread misinformation or divisive content that way. In Ep 242 of The Cultures, we talked about how the “MMR vaccine causes…
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The Cultures Ep 243: The Simpsons, Incompetent Criminal Videos, Copies
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Listen to episode 243 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: Why The Simpsons is shit (The Fall of The Simpsons: How it Happened video) Incompetent criminal videos: why they make me super uncomfortable (Parkour video) A copy as good as the original (Walter Benjamin on art, aura, and authenticity)
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Playing Press at Watch The Skies Megagame
I hadn’t anticipated becoming Chief Reporter for the Global News Network after signing up to play the Watch The Skies Megagame last week. Maybe I’d be the Chief Scientist for France, or perhaps the Chinese Premier, helping directing essential climate change research with the world’s leading scientists, or high-stakes diplomacy with India and America. Instead,…
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Longform, my favourite journalism podcast, gets into videogames with Tom Bissell. Along with his magazine and non-fiction writing, there’s some honest insights into the business and reality of writing for triple-A videogames.
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Fascinating yet depressing piece about The Rise in Self-Proclaimed Time Travellers. I can’t help but think this could make for a truly excellent ARG or videogame.
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