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The Global Warming Debate: Good Science or Bad Politics?
Adelaide Festival of Ideas session, Elder Hall, 10:30am, Sunday 10 July, 2005.
Flannery, Tim +2 more
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An Outline of a Theory of Play
Play is often dismissed as trivial, yet it is a fundamental and adaptive aspect of human and mammalian life. This paper develops a sociological theory of play, treating it as a total social fact that spans biological, psychological, and social dimensions.
Seth Abrutyn
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Adelaide Festival of Ideas session, Main Auditorium, Freemasons Hall, 13:30pm, Sunday 20th October, 2013. Hosted by Ian Gibbins.We all like certainty and the comfort it brings to our lives, but why do some of us have an ongoing need to explore beyond the
Dryza, Kristina, Chen, Rick, Lee, Mike
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Pedagogic discourse in the science festival in the desired university: Spain 1900-1936
In the early twentieth century the Spanish University offers an encouraging overview of the process of scientific and educational modernization, as they had intuited Giner de los Ríos and the Institución Libre de Enseñanza. It was the Desired University,
José María HERNÁNDEZ DÍAZ
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Sustainable Tourism and Projectification: Evidence from South‐Eastern Italy
Abstract This article examines how public policy can be used to promote local tourism and steer it towards sustainability. It uses the municipality of Lecce—a medium‐sized city in south‐eastern Italy—and the broader Salento region as a critical case study, drawing on descriptive statistics, administrative data on local policy projects promoting culture
Lorenzo Mascioli
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Adelaide Festival of Ideas session, Elder Hall, 8:00pm, Saturday 14 July, 2001.
Gaita, Raimond +6 more
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KI Science Film Festival: Einführung
Rund 50 Filmschaffende aus 13 Ländern haben ihre Werke zum Thema Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) beim ZAK eingereicht. Bei dem KI Science Film Festival 2019 zeigte das AZK in zwei Screenings die 12 besten Einreichungen, die in das Rennen um den KI ...
ZAK | Zentrum für Angewandte Kulturwissenschaft und Studium Generale +1 more
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Cities Under Pressure: Evidence on Tourism Growth and Neighbourhood Change in Europe
Abstract Across European cities, the rapid growth of tourism is reshaping urban life in increasingly contested ways. While the sector continues to support local economies, it is also increasingly associated with the sense that neighbourhoods are becoming less liveable for residents.
Mafalda Batalha
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ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Ideas whose time has come: from cosmology to cancer
Adelaide Festival of Ideas session, Freemasons Main Hall, 6:30 pm, Thursday 17th October, 2013. Chaired by Robert Phiddian and Phillip Adams. From dark energy to the Higgs boson, from cancer folklore to synthetic biology: great ideas often languish in
Adelaide Festival Corporation +1 more
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