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Adult education between the wars - the curious case of the Selborne Lecture Bureau
‘Independent’ lecture agencies are an important but neglected element in the history of education. Between 1918 and 1939, the Selborne Lecture Bureau was a significant national provider of adult education in Britain, both in its own right and as a supplier of lecture(r)s to Women’s Institutes and other bodies, and it pioneered the use of films in schools. For a brief period, it was an ‘educational’ vehicle for the Empire Marketing Board with a programme of over 2,400 lectures in 1929. The Bureau originated in the early 20th century split between the conservative (and male) traditions of natural history and the radical (and female) campaigning (anti) plumage movement that produced the RSPB. The inter-War history of the Selborne Lecture Bureau provides a counterpoint to conventional accounts of adult education between the two World Wars, representing an influential ‘third stream’ alongside the ‘liberal tradition’ and growing state and local authority provision
Living in the Milky Way
It’s finally here. Today, June 20 at 6:34 p.m., is the the summer solstice, also known as the first day of summer and, confusingly enough, midsummer’s eve. From a scientific perspective, it marks the moment the sun reaches its northernmost point in our sky. As a result of that position, it’s the shortest night and longest day if you live north of the equator. [excerpt
Prophylactic Neutrality, Oppression, and the Reverse Pascal's Wager
In Beyond Neutrality, George Sher criticises the idea that state neutrality between competing conceptions of the good helps protect society from oppression. While he is correct that some governments are non-neutral without being oppressive, I argue that those governments may be neutral at the core of their foundations. The possibility of non-neutrality leading to oppression is further explored; some conceptions of the good would favour oppression while others would not. While it is possible that a non-neutral state may avoid oppression, it is argued that the risks are so great that it is better to bet on government being neutral, thereby minimizing the possibility of oppression
Back Half of the Year
Here we are in the back half of 2016, and the days are getting shorter. We have, as of today, lost 18 minutes since the solstice on June 20, and the speed of that change is quickening. You may wonder why it is that we have our hottest weather after our longest day is behind us. The simple answer is that it takes time for land and water masses to warm up. That’s the reason that Sept. 21 is likely to be a lot warmer than March 21, even though they have the same amount of daylight. [excerpt
World Ocean Circulation Experiment
The oceans are an equal partner with the atmosphere in the global climate system. The World Ocean Circulation Experiment is presently being implemented to improve ocean models that are useful for climate prediction both by encouraging more model development but more importantly by providing quality data sets that can be used to force or to validate such models. WOCE is the first oceanographic experiment that plans to generate and to use multiparameter global ocean data sets. In order for WOCE to succeed, oceanographers must establish and learn to use more effective methods of assembling, quality controlling, manipulating and distributing oceanographic data
Mirror dark matter will be confirmed or excluded by XENON1T
Mirror dark matter, where dark matter resides in a hidden sector exactly
isomorphic to the standard model, can be probed via direct detection
experiments by both nuclear and electron recoils if the kinetic mixing
interaction exists. In fact, the kinetic mixing interaction appears to be a
prerequisite for consistent small scale structure: Mirror dark matter halos
around spiral galaxies are dissipative - losing energy via dark photon
emission. This ongoing energy loss requires a substantial energy input, which
can be sourced from ordinary supernovae via kinetic mixing induced processes in
the supernova's core. Astrophysical considerations thereby give a lower limit
on the kinetic mixing strength, and indeed lower limits on both nuclear and
electron recoil rates in direct detection experiments can be estimated. We show
here that potentially all of the viable parameter space will be probed in
forthcoming XENON experiments including LUX and XENON1T. Thus, we anticipate
that these experiments will provide a definitive test of the mirror dark matter
hypothesis.Comment: about 10 page
The Marketing of Political Candidates: Current Tactics and Future Strategies
Alexander Haig, Jr., a 1988 presidential hopeful, remarked, concerning campaign politics: I have learned the secret of life--it\u27s in marketing (1986). The emergence of marketing in non-business organizations, so well documented in recent writings, is accented by its ascendancy in politics (Laczniak and Caywood 1987; Four More years 1985; Mauser 1983; Rothschild 1978). Any campaign manager interested in applying orthodox marketing principles to his or her craft will find the use of marketing techniques in the political sphere particularly instructive
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