 A Eurovision Postcard
Eurovision and the New Europe is an international, interdisciplinary research network that aims to advance critical thinking about the contemporary Eurovision Song Contest (ESC), focusing on the ways in which the Contest has reflected, and perhaps driven, changing perceptions and realities of Europe since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Ahead of the 2012 ESC Grand Final on Saturday, Co-organisers Dr Gluhovic and Dr Fricker report on their activities in Baku.
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 Decoding Bletchley Park
Bletchley Park is the site where British and allied code-breakers decrypted ciphers and codes during World War II, including the famous Enigma code. How was it possible that 10,000 people were able to work in complete secrecy? What was the fabric of such an organisation? Rebecca Mahay spoke to Professor Chris Grey, the author of a new book, Decoding Organization: Bletchley Park, Codebreaking and Organizational Studies.
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 Carlos Fuentes, 1928-2012
Honorary Warwick alumnus, Carlos Fuentes, who died last week at the age of 83, was a prolific author and a fierce intellect whose work documented the political and cultural changes of Mexico. The son of a diplomat, Fuentes became used to travelling the Western hemisphere, creating links between Latin America and the wider world. Here, Professor John King remembers an energetic man whose independence of thought sometimes led him into conflict.
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 The Challenge of Fracking
Fracking - a technology used to release shale gas stored underground - hit the news headlines in 2011 after it caused earth tremors in Blackpool. But while France and Bulgaria have banned the controversial practice, fracking has provided the US with a new source of domestic energy. What's needed now, argues David Elmes, is not a ban but for the industry and regulators to work together to establish safe ways to access this new source of energy.
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 The Genetic Revolution
What advances has the mapping of the human genome led to? Professor Peter Donnelly from the University of Oxford visited the Warwick Systems Biology Centre to talk about the way in which developments in genetics and genomics have impacted on human health, and why we're not as different from chimpanzees as we may have thought.
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 The Dam Busters: Their Place in (Economic) History
The skill and heroism of the Dam Busters' raid is the stuff of legend, but what kind of an impact did it have on the German war economy? Professor Mark Harrison asks whether the activities of 16th-17th May 1943 stemmed from a mistaken belief in a 'powerful knock-out blow' that would somehow disable the German war machine, and explores how sustained Allied bombing brought forward Hitler's defeat.
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Recent research has found important country differences in couples' decisions to work while children are still young. To coincide with Mothers' Day in the US, Dr Clare Lyonette and colleagues argue that many American women are forced back to work full-time after having children because of the importance of employer-provided health insurance.
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These days, the future of health and science technology lies with interdisciplinary teams. At this Ideas Cafe event three Warwick academics revealed the healthcare challenges that they are researching and how colleagues from different departments are coming together to solve them.
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With Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande going head-to-head for the French vote, France's political landscape is now more polarised between left and right than it has been for many years. Warwick Professor, Nick Hewlett, author of The Sarkozy Phenomenon, casts a critical eye over the strategies of the two remaining candidates.
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The emergence of a new commerical society in 18th-century Britain saw the creation of literary clubs and societies which became the 'social networks' of their day. In this article Research Fellow Georgina Green introduces a Warwick project that explores the role of clubs and socities from 1760 to 1840 and looks at the ways in which they were considered places of individual improvement.
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