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What we gain from keeping books – and why it doesn’t need to be ‘joy’ | Books | The Guardian


https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/07/what-we-gain-from-keeping-books-and-why-it-doesnt-need-to-be-joy-marie-kondo


An interview with Holocaust survivor Martin Stern - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et9NxT4zWyA


UK Creativity Map

Help us create a map of all the creative groups and activities by adding your listing

https://www.voluntaryarts.org/creativity-map


Capitalists in the Twenty-First Century

https://www.nber.org/papers/w25442#fromrss




The Mass Observation Archive specialises in material about everyday life in Britain. It contains papers generated by the original Mass Observation social research organisation (1937 to early 1950s), and newer material collected continuously since 1981.

http://www.massobs.org.uk/the-archive/online-resources


Screen time: how much is too much?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00137-6


Meet Aladdin, the computer "more powerful than traditional politics"

How a single computer system came to influence the value of vast swathes of the world's financial assets.

https://www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/2018/04/meet-aladdin-computer-more-powerful-traditional-politics