Introducing the New Spirit of Capitalism: Lecture One

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/gifford-lectures/2016/05/02/introducing-the-new-spirit-of-capitalism/

We had a lively opening Gifford lecture with Professor Tanner at the Business School tonight! If you missed it, you can review the ‘live’ rendition at the Twitter hashtag #GiffordsEd. Also, as of Wednesday, May 4th, the lecture video has been available at this link. For this and subsequent discussion threads, consider responding to the following questions: Is there a technical […]

Enjoy the little things

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/vetstudentlife/2020/10/21/enjoy-the-little-things/

Hi everyone! My name is Maria Rosa and I’m in my fourth year (third year of the Graduate Entry Program). Before I dive into my first blog post, I’ll start off with a bit of an introduction.I was born and raised in Ontario, Canada in a city outside of Toronto. Prior to moving to Edinburgh, […]

School of GeoSciences Ceph Architecture

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/mhagdorn/2021/07/12/school-of-geosciences-ceph-architecture/

In one of my previous posts I outlined the ceph setup used in the School of GeoSciences. In this post, I would like to describe how the various bits fit together in some more detail. The diagram above shows a simplified version of our computing setup. Broadly speaking we distinguish between computers in the college […]

International Women's Day: Dr Jackie Maybin

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/scope/2021/03/08/international-womens-day-dr-jackie-maybin/

International Women’s Day celebrates women’s achievements, raises awareness against bias and encourages action for equality. One of the missions of International Women’s Day 2021 is ‘to assist women to be in a position of power to make informed decisions about their health’. With that in mind we are shining a spotlight on some of our […]

The ASA’s Footnotes & the Decameron

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/ed-decameron/the-asas-footnotes-the-decameron/

Liz Stanley The latest issue of the American Sociological Association’s Footnotes, for May/June 2020, has recently appeared. Also available electronically here, it takes the form of a print publication of 46 pages, and is filled with short contributions on the theme of sociology during COVID-19. This is actually sociology in the US, although this is not made clear but […]

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/s1750230_presentation-methods--context-4-2020-2021yr/2020/11/16/111/

  Laure Prouvost’s Sculpture Talk. As part of Yorkshire Sculpture International.       Laure came to us from the pixelated Croatian desert. She described wanting to give this feeling of spaces and sensations through pixels. ‘Technology swallowing us, being eaten’. She began with discussing her work, Dit Learn. (Dit means ‘to say’ in French). […]

Ubuntu grub config management

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/lcfg/2021/10/26/ubuntu-grub-config-management/

For some time now in Informatics we have occasionally seen problems with Ubuntu desktop machines not successfully rebooting. It hasn’t been a widespread problem, affecting something like just 1% of machines whenever package updates require a reboot, so diagnosis has been difficult. We think we may finally have a proper solution … A while back […]

Cosign/EASE drupal admin problem

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/neilb/2016/10/28/cosignease-drupal-admin-problem/

We’ve been holding off using Cosign/EASE on our EdWeb distro site, until we had a clear solution to the issue of how to become the Drupal admin user (user=1). As soon as we turn on Cosign authentication, then we’ll only ever be able to be user UUN. Even if we created functional accounts (to use […]

Conference snapshot: Medicine of the Person 71st Annual Meeting 14-17 August 2019, Teplá, Czech Republic

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/research-bow/conference-snapshot-medicine-of-the-person-71st-annual-meeting-14-17-august-2019-tepla-czech-republic/

Early in 2019 we discovered the writing of physician and counsellor Paul Tournier (1898-1986), and his approach within medicine that considers the whole person, including psychological, social and spiritual aspects. Delving further into his work, we discovered the International Association for the Medicine of the Person (Médecine de la Personne: MDP), founded by Tournier, which […]

Dots and snakes.

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/hughpumphrey/2016/12/15/dots-and-snakes/

I mentioned a year or three ago that we are moving to the use of python, with the numpy and matplotlib packages, for teaching scientific computing. I also mentioned that I was having to do some learning myself as I have used R for this purpose over the last few years. A thing that happens […]