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Where was the Fight at Finnesburg?

Where was the Fight at Finnesburg?

The Fight at Finnesburg took place at Finn’s stronghold in Frisia. All we can guess from the Finnesburg Fragment and the episode in Beowulf is that Finnesburg was a defended hall with a settlement around it, and that it was cut off from ships by winter ice. The...

Is Unconscious Bias a Myth?

Is Unconscious Bias a Myth?

We all know, especially those of us who work in business or are interested in equal rights (or both), how unconscious bias is supposed to work. There is a tranche of rhetoric and dogma which says that people - by this we usually mean white men, are innately biased...