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2010 – The Best Cool Tech Gadgets of the Year

2010 happened to be a particularly exciting year for two kinds of cool tech gadgets – mobile gadgets and 3-D ones. In the mobile gadgets category of course, Apple had two entries – the maddeningly desirable iPad touchscreen tablet computer, and the smaller-than-ever new MacBook Air. In the 3-D department, every major television manufacturer had [...]

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The Belkin Conserve 10 Outlet Surge Protector with Wireless Remote – Do Your Bit for the Planet

Over the past five years, Belkin’s surge protected power strips have taken over the back of every appliance, every device that ever should need electrical protection. A new 10-outlet surge protector from Belkin, part of the company’s aptly named Conserve range does more than merely to try save your equipment from surges. It tries to [...]

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Customers Urged To Rebel Against Rising Energy Prices

Energyhelpline.com today called on consumers to fight back against rising energy prices by refusing to accept them. “No company likes a consumer backlash and if enough people adopt this tactic it might make energy providers think twice about hiking prices in the future.” “Customers should vote with their feet and just say ‘No’ if they [...]

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Dual Mirage – Identifying of the Mirage that Appears and Disappears in Urban Spaces

Dual Mirage – Identifying of the Mirage that Appears and Disappears in Urban Spaces

Dual Mirage is an independent publication in both Korean and English organised by Hyemin Son. It explores the identity of the Mirage that appears and disappears in urban spaces, with various participants: artists, architects, designers and theorists. Dual Mirage consists of three parts, and incorporates events spanning from Seoul to London, and in–between, that are [...]

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Down the Road of Globalisation – Exhibiting Terrorism, Conquest & Expansion Through the Eyes of Seven Artists

Down the Road of Globalisation – Exhibiting Terrorism, Conquest & Expansion Through the Eyes of Seven Artists

Globalisation has been repeatedly staged, weakened and re-staged throughout history in different forms and so far one undeniable outcome: vast economic prosperity for certain nations or empires. Although its historical origins are still debatable, the Hellenistic period, the Age of discovery and the European colonization of America have all been regarded as eras of Globalisation. [...]

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Homo Economicus Swinging Back – The Ceasing Free-Rider Problem

Homo Economicus Swinging Back – The Ceasing Free-Rider Problem

Traditional economic models assume that people are self-interested in the narrow sense. If “homo economicus” – the stereotypical rational actor in these models – finds a wallet on the sidewalk, he keeps the cash inside. He doesn’t leave tips after dining in restaurants that he will never visit again. And he would never vote in [...]

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WHAT IF WE ARE GOD – Threat To Democracy In The 21st Century

WHAT IF WE ARE GOD – Threat To Democracy In The 21st Century

The current political climate is showing a political will that is struggling to effectively come to terms with global warming, let alone deal with it. Whilst a serious threat of this nature is a first for civilisation, politicians struggle with it because it can directly conflict with the agendas of those who helped them into [...]

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CARNAGE & THE MEDIA – The Basis of News Within Society

CARNAGE & THE MEDIA – The Basis of News Within Society

This fifth offering from Jean Seaton, Professor of Media Studies at Westminster University, is a passionate appraisal of news and the basis of it within society today. In ten tight chapters Jean takes the reader through her principle ideas, from Blood in the High street to Global Compassion, dissecting the representation of major tragedies played [...]

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BARACK OBAMA – Iowa Speech Excerpt 2007

BARACK OBAMA – Iowa Speech Excerpt 2007

“…We don’t need more heat in government, we need more light … Hope … That thing inside us that exists, that despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better is waiting before us around the corner; but only if we are willing to work for it and fight for it. To shed our fears [...]

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GEORGE GALLOWAY – Dinner with Portillo Excerpt 2003

GEORGE GALLOWAY – Dinner with Portillo Excerpt 2003

George Galloway: “I could run through the world now, tyranny by tyranny and virtually every one of them is backed by the United States. It only stays in power, because of the United States. The Pakistan example, which is the perfect crystallisation of this; a soldier called ‘The General’, called himself a president, you’ll remember [...]

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