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How do we interact with search systems?

Search systems, including web search engines, play an important role in decision making and action in many settings. Over the next decade and beyond, people will interact with search systems in new ways. Ryen White tells us how.

Ryen White | 19 Oct 2017

A new poem by Tim Wells to celebrate the launch of Matt Worley’s punk book, ‘No Future’

We're delighted to announce that we continue our week-long celebration of new punk book, No Future: Punk, Politics and British Youth Culture, 1976-1984, with a brand new poem by Tim Wells and a 'No Future' Spotify Playlist by author Matt Worley. PLAY LOUD AND ENJOY!

19 Oct 2017

‘No Future’ launches at Rough Trade East in London

New punk book No Future by Matt Worley launched at the brilliant Rough Trade East on Brick Lane in London last night and we had a blast! If you couldn't be there, here's what you missed...

18 Oct 2017

WIN! A signed copy of new punk book ‘No Future’

No Future by Matthew Worley launches this week and to celebrate we are giving away ten signed copies of the book on Facebook and Twitter. See below for details of how to enter. And watch this space for more competitions and exclusive features this week!

17 Oct 2017

‘No Future’ takeover week on fifteeneightyfour starts today!

All this week on fifteeneightyfour we are celebrating the launch of No Future: Punk, Politics and British Youth Culture, 1976-1984 by Matt Worley with music, words, videos and giveaways. Forty years on from the release of the iconic debut album, 'Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols', No Future recaptures punk's anarchic force as a medium through which the frustrated and the disaffected could reject, revolt and re-invent. Keep checking this space throughout the week to hear more.

16 Oct 2017

How Would Ernie Say It? Send Us Your Best Hemingway Interpretations

We want to hear/see your most creative interpretations of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway.

11 Oct 2017

Mental Health Stigma and the Loss of Human Potential

Cambridge author Philip Yanos discusses World Mental Health Day and why raising awareness and encouraging people with mental health issues to seek help ultimately has little impact on stigma.

Philip Yanos | 10 Oct 2017

“Merkel has done more to modernize gender roles in united Germany than all of her predecessors” says author Joyce Marie Mushaben

Germany votes this weekend in the last in a series of elections in key Western countries. The polls are predicting a win for Angela Merkel, who is trying to secure a historic fourth term as chancellor. In an exclusive extract from her new book, Becoming Madam Chancellor: Angela Merkel and the Berlin Republic, Joyce Marie Mushaben explains why she wrote the book and she looks back at the personal and political factors that have contributed to Chancellor Merkel's hard-earned status as ‘the world's most powerful woman.’

Joyce Marie Mushaben | 21 Sep 2017

Watching Ken Burns’ The Vietnam War: A Historians’ View

Le Duan toasting with Mao Burns’ new documentary series has much merit. Most commendable from my perspective as a historian of the Vietnamese communist experience is the inclusion of references to Le...

Pierre Asselin | 20 Sep 2017

Fundamental vs Phenomenological: Bridging the divide in modern physics

Horatiu Nastase, author of String Theory Methods for Condensed Matter Physics, describes the differences between reductionist and emergent approaches to modern physics and presents the duality approach to help solve uncalculable problems in strong nuclear forces, fluids and condensed matter. Is this approach the bridge between fundamental and phenomenological physics?

Horatiu Nastase | 19 Sep 2017

Trivial and Ineffective? Cooking the turkey with dimensional analysis

Notes on Dimensional Analysis Dimensional analysis has the dubious reputation of being both utterly trivial and, at the same time, ineffective.  Although both claims are understandable neither is well...

Don S. Lemons | 12 Sep 2017

The ‘Internet of Things’ is Sending Us Back to the Middle Ages

Internet-enabled devices are so common, and so vulnerable, that hackers recently broke into a casino through its fish tank. The tank had internet-connected sensors measuring its temperature and cleanliness....

Joshua A. T. Fairfield | 6 Sep 2017