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Recently, I’ve been working on the mobility of queens in medieval Europe. I thought a quantitative approach might be useful. To that end, I’ve made a list of 101 marriages* through which a woman become a queen of a “different country”, 900-1150. Obviously there’s a degree of subjectivity here (what is a “different country” in […]
Changing the visual design mid-way in a video project is quite unusual, but pivoting to a softer animation style with stick figures proved successful for both the client and us.
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This page contains a brief quantitative summary of the signatories on the Open Letter to the LSA Regarding Steven Pinker (TOL) and the letter by Jacobson, Partee and Pesetsky (PPJ). In total, 623 TOL signatures were analyzed. We provide a few notes on our methodology, but would like to first emphasize that this discussion is […]
In After Virtue, MacIntyre argues that modern culture has, to a significant extent, abandoned the notion of telos – understood as the human end, purpose, or goal. Once this teleological framework is removed, what remains is a set of inherited moral precepts detached from the context that originally made them intelligible. These precepts persist in […]
In this post, Juan José (JJ) Miranda shares what managing the Holyrood podcast studio at Paterson’s Land has revealed about how colleagues use audio to support student learning. Drawing on his experience supporting colleagues from programmes including the MSc in Social Justice and Community Action and the MSc in Digital Education, JJ reflects on what […]
