When piezoelectric transducers vibrate the display itself to create sound waves, the sound seems to come directly from the image on the screen, a much more realistic effect.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/piezoelectric-speakers
https://spectrum.ieee.org/piezoelectric-speakers
Former Guardian editor-at-large Gary Younge appears in a lecture hall at City University in February 2024 to deliver the inaugural Rosemary Hollis memorial lecture.
Former Guardian editor-at-large Gary Younge appears in a lecture hall at City University in February 2024 to deliver the inaugural Rosemary Hollis memorial lecture. Picture: Press Gazette
Journalist Gary Younge has warned that the narrow range of most British journalists’ backgrounds means it takes “a seismic event” for journalists to take an interest in problems that are for many people everyday realities.
Delivering the inaugural Rosemary Hollis Memorial lecture at City University he said “now more than ever we need reporters and commentators who can engage with the sources of discontent and alienation which fuel the assaults on our democratic space.
“But instead we have a commentariat, overwhelmingly from the same social class both as each other and the politicians they cover. Their reference points are limited, their comfort zone is narrow."
Younge argued that when this commentariat witnesses an event “that they cannot understand, they think the problem is with the event, not with them. When political figures or moments emerge that make them feel uncomfortable or that they don’t like, they subject it not to analysis but parody.
And he noted that, “if in order to circulate an idea, a story, widely, you need a few million, billion pounds in your pocket, then we shouldn’t be surprised if the media represents a certain kind of interest – the interest of the rich”.
https://pressgazette.co.uk/diversity/gary-younge-city-lecture-media-commentariat-dog-bites-man/
Former Guardian editor-at-large Gary Younge appears in a lecture hall at City University in February 2024 to deliver the inaugural Rosemary Hollis memorial lecture. Picture: Press Gazette
Journalist Gary Younge has warned that the narrow range of most British journalists’ backgrounds means it takes “a seismic event” for journalists to take an interest in problems that are for many people everyday realities.
Delivering the inaugural Rosemary Hollis Memorial lecture at City University he said “now more than ever we need reporters and commentators who can engage with the sources of discontent and alienation which fuel the assaults on our democratic space.
“But instead we have a commentariat, overwhelmingly from the same social class both as each other and the politicians they cover. Their reference points are limited, their comfort zone is narrow."
Younge argued that when this commentariat witnesses an event “that they cannot understand, they think the problem is with the event, not with them. When political figures or moments emerge that make them feel uncomfortable or that they don’t like, they subject it not to analysis but parody.
And he noted that, “if in order to circulate an idea, a story, widely, you need a few million, billion pounds in your pocket, then we shouldn’t be surprised if the media represents a certain kind of interest – the interest of the rich”.
https://pressgazette.co.uk/diversity/gary-younge-city-lecture-media-commentariat-dog-bites-man/
Press Gazette
‘Internal memos of the upper class’: Gary Younge says journalism is out of touch
Former Guardian editor-at-large Gary Younge says sometimes "dog bites man" is a story and it gets ignored.
In recent weeks, Elon Musk’s SpaceX as well as Amazon, Starbucks and Trader Joe’s have filed legal papers that advance novel arguments aimed at hobbling and perhaps shutting down the NLRB – the federal agency that enforces labor rights and oversees unionization efforts. Those companies are eager to thwart the NLRB after it accused Amazon, Starbucks and Trader Joe’s of breaking the law in battling against unionization and accused SpaceX of illegally firing eight workers for criticizing Musk.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/10/starbucks-trader-joes-spacex-challenge-labor-board
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/10/starbucks-trader-joes-spacex-challenge-labor-board
the Guardian
Major US corporations threaten to return labor to ‘law of the jungle’
Trader Joe’s and SpaceX are among businesses challenging the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Board
Rather than an affordable and less disruptive alternative to flood defence schemes, ‘natural flood management’ is a wedge that opens up questions about how land is valued and who has the power to shape landscapes. In this opening, ecosocialist politics shouldn’t overlook how cycles of flood and ebb have played a role in producing habitable waterways, wetlands and other amphibious spaces for other living beings. Flood defences as they often appear today – as walls and straightened, concrete-lined waterways – are ecological violence. An ecologically-attuned flood politics might reengineer upstream tributaries so that they hold more water, perhaps with the assistance of beavers. It might set houses back from the coast to allow salt marsh and tidal flats to develop. This approach represents an ethics of repair, responding to the decimation of the living world which accompanies and extends beyond climate disruptions.
https://scottishleftreview.scot/flood-politics/
https://scottishleftreview.scot/flood-politics/
scottishleftreview.scot
Flood Politics
With government money pouring into local climate change adaptation, Elliot Hurst considers how the left might shape a better flood response.