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Up to two million people died during the Chinese Cultural Revolution of 1966–76, in which Mao Zedong sought to bolster communism. Among them were many teachers killed by students as part of an anti-intellectual movement. Education could mean “ruin”, writes Tania Branigan, a journalist in China in 2008–15, in her riveting portrait of the revolution, based on interviews with survivors.
: “Truth is realized through men.” Einstein disagreed, commenting: “I cannot prove that my conception is right, but that is my religion.”Don Norman has worked in electrical engineering, cognitive psychology, computer science and design, in academia and industry. Now in his eighties, he draws on this experience to explain how designers, governments and industry must “broaden the notion of design from human centred to humanity centred”.
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