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TudoRama

TudoRama explores the nature and practice of creativity in the arts, sciences, politics and above all in everyday life. Tudor Rickards is Emeritus Professor of Creativity and Organizational Change at the University of Manchester. Tudor studied chemistry and radiation chemistry at The University of Wales at Cardiff. Following post-doctoral research at New York Medical College, he returned to the UK to work in technical management before joining Manchester Business School. He has published numerous

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6:53

Wit and wisdom, Late February 2025

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2025/03/04

Send us a text Wit and Wisdom, late February 2025 Still heavily biased towards political posts. I tried and failed to find a wider set… Me PMQs 6 questions about a refugee permitted entry to the U.K. 2 questions about sorting out Donald Trump 0 questions about the Gaza ceasefire 0 questions about global warming 0 questions about the economy Did I miss anything? @NicholasTyrone I’m always amazed at the people in Britain who look at Ukraine being invaded and think they should just roll...

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3:09

Sporting Dilemmas. The case of the Virtual Assistant...

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2025/03/03

Send us a text Sporting Dilemmas. The Case of the Virtual Assistant Referee. Sporting progress has always been measured. The metrics may vary, but the prize goes to athlete or team considered to have carried out the best performance, be it speed, distance, height, accuracy of core tasks or endurance. Sport requires judgement. As a sport develops and becomes professionalised so do the role of judge, and the sophistication of the measures. At the highest levels of competitive sport, the ...

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The Trumposki Gambit. The most feared weapon in the...

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2025/03/03

Send us a text The rarely-played Trumposki gambit has hit the headlines for its continued use by its devoted followers who believe it to be the greatest gambit of all time. The gambit was played in an acrimonious match in the opulent settings of the Trumposki Towers recently. The match, sponsored by Aeroflot airlines, was played according the Newchess rules, in which the home team has a second player able to play a special skewer move during the game, often turning a weak position...

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How's to save a lost game at chess

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2025/02/25

Send us a text In our league match this week, the most interesting point about my game was how I managed to convert a completely lost position into a draw. I’m not sure how much is Chess skill and how much is a psychology applied to escape from defeat. Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email everydaycreativityuk@gmail.com to sign up! Follow Tudor on Twitter @Tudortweet Follow Tudor's blogs: everydaycrea...

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5:23

Mao to Xi. A tale of two leaders

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2025/02/21

Send us a text Chinese leadership from Mao to Xi. A review of The Political Thought of Xi Jinping, by Tsang and Cheung. To understand the role played by Xi Jinping in shaping China’s future it is necessary to understand the revolutionary origins of the State. The birth of the nation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) occurred under the charismatic leadership of Chairman Mao. Mao Zedong fits a profile of charismatic revolutionary leaders, whose stories have become embedded in his...

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3:55

Beyond mimicry: Can AI exhibit creativity?

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2025/02/17

Send us a text The question was posed by a team of creativity researchers as the AI revolution of 2023-4 was in full swing. AI was setting new questions about the nature of work, and the capacity of computers to replace humans Ref Marrone, R., Cropley, D., & Medeiros, K. (2024). How Does Narrow AI Impact Human Creativity? Creativity Research Journal, 1–11. Writing in a leading creativity research journal, they pose their research question as ‘How Does Narrow AI Impact...

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Proposal for collaboration with CIM for contributions...

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2025/02/13

Send us a text Invitation and call for ideas. CIM Community Meeting, March 2025 As invited by the Editorial Board I have submitted an idea for consideration at the CIM Community Meeting, March 2025 The Idea: Proposal for collaboration with CIM for contributions to the new edition of Dilemmas of Leadership Proposer: Tudor Rickards I am inviting contributions, initially in the form of citations of publications on emerging issues in creativity and innovation, to be published in the fourth ed...

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3:20

Manchester United can't be going bust. Or can it?

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2025/02/13

Send us a text It’s a hard time to be a Manchester United supporter. Many are seeking therapy to cope with their anguish over the last few years. They had seen the super club under super Manager Alex Ferguson drop down the GLOBAL rankings and even worse have had to suffer the indignity of accepting that United is no longer even the strongest club in Manchester, out spent and out competed by the noisy neighbours, Manchester City. Grumbling is part of the requirement of becoming a footbal...

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4:55

Trump v Associated Press. The battle for the first...

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2025/02/12

Send us a text Written and spoken by Tudor Rickards, based on an Associated Press statement. AP statement on Oval Office access, Wed 12 February 2025 QUOTE Today we were informed by the White House that if associated press did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order, renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America associated press would be banned from accessing an event in the Oval Office. This afternoon, our reporter was blocked from attending an e...

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Wit and Wisdom February 2025

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2025/02/11

Send us a text @ShoelMolvi I am getting married on Feb 30th.. Everyone is invited Me I thought you said it was going to be April 1st Two from the witty Doctor @DocAtCDI Son: Dad, I had a test at school today. Dad: Oh yeah, what was it on? Son: Paper. and for his follow up What does Arnold Schwarzenegger say at the beginning of a game of chess? I’ll be black. Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Em...

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On learning of Donald Trump's plans for Gaza

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2025/02/06

Send us a text Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley Spoken by Tudor Rickards I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read... Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email everydaycreati...

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3:21

Chasing after moonbeams: The human quest for...

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2025/02/03

Send us a text Chasing after moonbeams: The human quest for knowledge of the future The search for emerging trends is as old as the human quest to understand and influence the future. As civilisations arose, so did men and women were whose views were treated with respect and who were regarded as having mystic powers. Perhaps the most famous,even to the present day, was the Oracle at Delphi. The myth emerged that at the sacred temple, the high priestess would reveal the future to visitors wea...

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Wit and Wisdom Late January 2025

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2025/02/01

Send us a text Another humorous collection of posts, but some also marking the tragic Washington DC air crash in the last days of the month. @ShoebMolvi After the storm, Dave’s worried about the caravan in his front garden, as he didn't have one yesterday👀 @gardnerstewart39 Morrisons have run out of haggises. It's a bit late to be rushing to Scotland to catch one in the wild. I thought the plural of Haggis was Haggi, apparently not. Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and

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Big Ben Bonged for Britain. The Day we left Europe

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2025/01/31

Send us a textJanuary 31, 2020 was the day the UK formally left the EU. It was celebrated by the victorious Leave voters celebrated 'freedom day' with a grand party and Big Ben ringing out the joyous news.It was also a day when the first victims of what was going to become the COVID pandemic were hospitalised.This is a summary of my notes at the time, concluding my five year diary since the Referendum in 2016. Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary ...

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When the water drops and refreezes’: Where do new...

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2025/01/30

Send us a textWhen the water drops and refreezes’: Where do new ideas come from?‘ That happens when the water drops from the guttering, and refreezes’ I said to myself.The ice had formed in an unexpected way and I had arrived at an explanation for my observation.‘When the water drops and refreezes’ stayed in my consciousness as a promising first line for a poem.I could easily have become involved in the process of creating a few more lines of poetry in some form or other. (I did mention my ha...

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3:49

Did Donald Trump contribute to the crash in share...

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2025/01/29

Send us a textDid Donald Trump contribute to the crash in share prices this week?As Donald Trump’s first week of his second term as President came to an end, the Chinese A.I. company DeepSeek sent the stock markets plunging with claims of matching leading chatbots with substantially lower computer chip costs.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/business/us-stock-market-deepseek-ai-sp500-nvidia.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShareThe President’s reaction was robust: “The ...

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The weaponisation of DEI

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2025/01/28

Send us a textAmong the flurry of executive orders announced by President Trump arriving in office in January 20, 2025, was Executive Order 14171, directed at dismantling diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programmes in government... Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter! Email everydaycreativityuk@gmail.com to sign up! Follow Tudor on Twitter @Tudortweet Follow Tudor's blogs: everydaycreativity.u...

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Chess and Darts. Not as different as you might think

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2025/01/25

Send us a textAt first sight, Chess and darts seem very different games. This week, several coincidences drew my attention to an unexpected similarity.At Chess this week, I had watched the remarkable emergence of gifted young chess players taking apart their seniors during a local Chess league match. No real surprise there, as it mainly reinforced the trend of young Chess players out-performing the older generation, led by our new teenage world champion, Gulesh.But then, the first coincidence...

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Wit and Wisdom. The first week of the Trump Presidency

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2025/01/24

Send us a textA lengthier than usual audiopost. These posts included are heavily against President Trump and his actions. Also, one commentator, @Acyn has been particularly prolific. I will try harder to search for more posts supportive of the new President in future collections. @ScaramucciLaunch of Melania coin is causing Trump coin to crash. Elon was right, we are living in a simulation. Which one of the kids coins will perform best? The day before inauguration as leader of free world...

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Helpful advice, NOT. When to ignore advice from...

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2025/01/22

Send us a textSpoken and written by Tudor Rickards Wednesday 22 January, 2025Nearly 20 years ago, a friend asked me why I was thinking of putting things on the web.I didn’t know, and said it all looked very interesting.A few years later, another friend asked me why I wanted to play around with Twitter. I said I wanted to try it out.Fast forward another ten years or so, and yet another colleague warned me not to waste my time trying to learn podcasting... Stay up-to-date with all of ...

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