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Collaboration, the RSA way pt.1

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07 Jan 2013

Jamie Cooke

"It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed." - Charles Darwin

Bleeding Heart Libertarianism: What is it and do we need it in the UK? (Part One)

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06 Jan 2013

Across the Atlantic, a small intellectual movement is beginning to grow in influence and size. Jokingly referring to itself as ‘bleeding heart libertarianism’ (BHL), it is focused on an attempt to fuse the libertarian values of individual liberty, economic property rights and a scepticism towards the state with a respect for social justice and defence of the poor and vulnerable often associated with the left. 

Farming today and the core dialetic

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04 Jan 2013

Matthew Taylor

Hopefully this juxtaposition is enough to engage brains jaded by a combination of festive excess and the return to work….

When is the right time to eat stale doughnuts?

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04 Jan 2013

Nathalie Spencer

On a recent trip to the States to visit family for the holidays, I had the opportunity to watch a whole host of mediocre films on the transatlantic flights.  One of these was The Five Year Engagement with Emily Blunt and Jason Segel, a mix of romance and comedy with a surprising dose of psychology, too.

Aren't you being a little, y'know, Dystopian?

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03 Jan 2013

Jonathan Rowson

The Argentinian genius, Jorge Luis Borges once described Utopia as "a Greek word meaning 'there is no such place'"

Social Mirror: now very much a new thing!

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02 Jan 2013

Gaia Marcus

Happy New Year from the RSA Action and Research HQ everyone, and please join me in wishing a slightly belated Happy First Birthday to the Social Mirror project! It's just over a year ago that Nathan Matias and I brainstormed the idea of Social Mirror in the RSA's London offices. Last year focused on ideas and prototypes. This year, we will be testing our ideas and sharing the software more broadly.

New Year, so where's the new stationery?

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02 Jan 2013

For many of us, today is the first day back at work after the Christmas break. It’s the time for fresh starts, clean pages, and resolutions. The clichés tell us that the New Year is an opportunity to put some distance between ourselves and last year’s bad habits, ill-advised decisions and unhealthy obsessions.

Fellowship - waiting for the Great Leap Forward

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02 Jan 2013

Matthew Taylor

This is the last of three posts exploring key issues facing the RSA as we enter 2013...

Mission and myth

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01 Jan 2013

Matthew Taylor

It is right and proper, indeed healthy, that there should be an open debate about the core mission and purposes of the RSA. Thanks to the good work of our old friend David Wilcox there is a discussion on this topic currently underway on Linked In. With the RSA being such a broad and unique organisation, with 27,000 strong-minded Fellows, it’s not the first of these kinds of debate and it certainly won’t be the last.