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CoMixed- Remixing thoughts on Science and the Future
An exciting and varied debate about the future at the Manchester CoMixed discussion. A series of provocations on the scientific challenges of our time including Climate Change, Digital Economy,...
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Happening! 19.11.2009 12:00 – 13:00 Online NESTA discussion
Social Media – A force for good? So, this is the first of my Happening posts, and I’m deviating already. This event tomorrow isn’t actually ‘happening’ in Manchester – at least it isn’t at time of...
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January in Manchester… even Mondays are interesting at Madlab!
I should have known it was a mistake to set a blog writing target, even a low one. For reasons of illness, snow and ‘the impacts of the recession’ I’ve either been tied to the house with little to...
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Walls are Talking at the Whitworth
Maria Balshaw says that this has been a great week for art in Manchester – we had the opening of 2 contemporary exhibitions at Manchester Art Gallery on Wednesday night, Don McCullin’s show of...
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Happening! 12.02.10 12.30-2.00 “Lost Hulme” Historical Photograph Exhibition
Friday lunchtime sees the launch of a fascinating photographic exhibition, appropriately installed in the Zion Centre, Hulme. A new exhibition of photographs and documents curated by students at...
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Soccerex European Forum, Manchester Central
First session of the Soccerex conference is Sport: A Total Entertainment Industry. The secret of sport is it’s unknown quantity- it’s the ultimate reality series on TV. Brian Barwick warns that sport...
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Downtown -The lights are much brighter there…
It’s the Downtown Manchester in Business Launch, at the Cloud 23 bar of the Hilton hotel . Sir Howard Bernstein explains that he encouraged Frank to launch DMIB to add to the constructive challenge...
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Mandelson in Manchester
We had a surprise visitor in Manchester on Friday. It seemed as though Lord Peter Mandelson was here to put his arm around the Regions, and give them a little hug after Spellman and Clarke had...
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A matter of Life or Growth?
On Thursday, Paul Ekins delivered an important public lecture at Manchester Business School, there were a few folk there, but I was surprised that it wasn’t more busy. Maybe there’s just so much going...
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Serendipitous Serendipity
serendipity – noun - the lucky tendency to find interesting or valuable things by chance. I really felt this blog was leading the zeitgeist last week, when serendipity became Manchester’s ‘word of the...
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