Thompson & Cotton: Injustice & Redemption
The story of Jennifer Thompson and Ronald Cotton is one of injustice and redemption. In 1984, Jennifer Thompson testified that Ronald Cotton raped her. He was sentenced to life in prison. Eleven years later, DNA evidence cleared him of the crime. They went on to write a memoir together about their experience.
David Leach: Kibbutzing Your ‘Hood’
A kibbutz, in Hebrew, means simply ‘a gathering’. David Leach talks about how contemporary communities in British Columbia, Canada and beyond can learn from the successes (and mistakes) of the kibbutz movement.
Jim Tanaka: Facing up to Autism, New Tools for Different Minds
Dr. Jim Tanaka is a Professor of Psychology and co-Director of the Brain and Cognition at the University of Victoria. His work in autism explores the use of interactive media to help children with autism spectrum disorder develop their social and emotional abilities.
Jake Porway: Data without Borders
What happens when ambitious and talented data scientists are connected with social organisations rife with data but lacking resources to do anything with it? Jake Porway’s ‘Data Without Borders’ helps bring these two groups together, using data in the service of humanity to design transformative visualisations and decision-making tools.
Chris Goodall: Why Media Plurality Matters
You may think that the mass media that assails you every minute of the day from Facebook to Twitter to the BBC News site is giving you a diverse and plural sense of the world, its news, its current affairs and its opinions. Chris Goodall thinks there’s so much competing for our attention that the […]
