Lecture 4- George Eliot: Heroes Without Faith

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/gifford-lectures/2022/05/10/lecture-4-george-eliot-heroes-without-faith/

Professor Neiman started her lecture with the question- ‘was she beautiful or not beautiful?’ Henry James commented that she was hideous but he was ‘literally in love with this great horse-faced bluestocking.’ Was this just a preoccupation of the male gaze? Her voice and eyes were described as beautiful ‘positive light’, as if Eliot had […]

The NC500 - The good, the bad and the ugly - FINALE

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/sustainable-wellness/2021/09/23/the-nc500-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-finale/

  The one you’ve all been waiting for…..right? Let’s answer those questions from the last NC500 post: What did we wake up to? Were our bikes still there against the outside wall? Were we in any condition to cycle ….? And let’s start where we left off from …… 2 caterpillars seeking shelter from the […]

School of GeoSciences File Storage

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/mhagdorn/2020/08/04/school-of-geosciences-file-storage/

Providing secure, reliable, performant file storage is one of the fundamental services an IT team provides. This post describes in detail how the new CephFS based storage at the School of GeoSciences works. All our Linux machines, servers, compute boxes and desktops are running Scientific Linux and are managed using LCFG. We also use LCFG […]

How do we care about care homes, asks Niamh Woodier

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/covid19perspectives/2020/05/26/how-do-we-care-about-care-homes-asks-niamh-woodier/

Lloyd Rees, when discussing Australian modern art, argued that ‘the universal element in art, I feel, has often come from an intense localism’ (Rees in Butler & Donaldson 2015, 142).  This quote has stayed with me since my Art History degree: Lloyd Rees was originally referring to the conflict between indigenous and Western symbolic vocabularies […]

The future of fashion: an interview with Pauline Op de Beeck

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Edinburgh Alumna Pauline Op de Beeck was recognised as one of Forbes’ 30 under 30 in Retail and Ecommerce for her work in driving the fashion industry to be more sustainable. We chatted to her about her top tips on how you can influence the industry, her favourite material innovation and what she thinks the future of fashion […]

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‘The Bog Offerings of the Balts: I give in order to get back’ By Audronė Bliujienė   “In one way or another, offerings were related to water, and, by their essence, they were offerings into water as a universal mediator in the journey to the afterworld or the eventual realm of the dead. Without doubt, […]

Developing the research imagination: Working together, co-design and sharing ideas

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/darkmatters/2022/10/24/developing-the-research-imagination-working-together-co-design-and-sharing-ideas/

Research is a process of constantly theorizing from evidence. In order to give our findings life and meaning we can apply frames that allow us to do that and also help us work together and react to practical problems as they come up. One frame is normalization. As sociologists we deal with the problem of […]

Theorising Scottish Children’s and Young Adult Fiction

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/selcie/2018/10/05/theorising-scottish-childrens-and-young-adult-fiction/

In this post, Fiona McCulloch argues for the timeliness of critical engagement with children’s and young adult literature  –   and how it can help chart journeys into new ways of thinking… * You’re reading too much into it’… ‘it’s just a children’s story’ … ‘don’t ruin it for me’… These are just some of […]

CLEAN THE CLUTTER AND REPEAT

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CLEAN THE CLUTTER AND REPEAT APRIL 1998 “Glasgow: Onwards and Upwards”, Art Monthly, No.216, May 1998, p26-27. This extended version of this report on the Glasgow appeared in basetext, @ www.succession.uk.com/basetext/ Glasgow’s cultural commissars were smarting this March at the loss of the new parliament to Edinburgh.  To make matters worse, Timothy Clifford was refused […]

CLEAN THE CLUTTER AND REPEAT

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/neilmulholland/1998/04/01/clean-the-clutter-and-repeat/

CLEAN THE CLUTTER AND REPEAT APRIL 1998 “Glasgow: Onwards and Upwards”, Art Monthly, No.216, May 1998, p26-27. This extended version of this report on the Glasgow appeared in basetext, @ www.succession.uk.com/basetext/ Glasgow’s cultural commissars were smarting this March at the loss of the new parliament to Edinburgh.  To make matters worse, Timothy Clifford was refused […]