The Triumph of Death, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1562.
A medieval historian and business studies expert discuss how pandemics past and present impact on big business.
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A decade of no grazing has demonstrated positive effects on the richness of bird species.
Also known as ‘arugula’, rocket belongs to the same plant family as broccoli and kale.
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Whether you like the taste of rocket or not, these leafy greens actually have many health benefits, including anti-cancer properties.
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London is an alpha city – home to 100 billionaires. But does wealth bring social costs?
Alone or lonely?
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An audio version of an in depth article on the history of solitude.
Cholera would often turn its victims’ skin a bluish grey.
Wellcome Collection
There is a sad precedent of pandemic disease threatening the residents of care institutions – and of authorities not heeding the dangers.
Going underground: heading into an Atlas Shelter in Dallas, Texas.
Bradley Garrett
To ‘preppers’ getting ready for a global cataclysm, the COVID-19 pandemic is a mere ‘mid-level’ event.
The refugee-led organisation YARID delivering food and other items to refugees in Kampala.
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Refugee-led organisations in camps and cities in Uganda are at the frontline of the response to COVID-19 response.
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We can lock in these changes to build sustainable cities out of the coronavirus crisis – here’s how.
A Royal Air Force De Havilland MosquitoI in flight on September 30 1944.
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The second world war offers a possible blueprint for confronting the ventilator challenge.
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The airline industry has faced many crises before. But these pale in comparison to the economic hit that airlines are currently facing.
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Most people in the West are used to some form of solitude from time to time. But this is a fairly new normal.
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The coronavirus pandemic is placing immense mental and physical pressures on NHS staff.
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We could use this crisis to rebuild, produce something better and more humane. But we may slide into something worse.
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Behind every government announcement, there is an army of epidemiologists predicting how the virus will spread, and how to beat it.
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There are no criminal provisions around slavery in 49% of world nations, groundbreaking new legal research finds.
Dickens After Death, John Everett Millais, June 10 1870.
Charles Dickens Museum
How two ambitious men put their own interests ahead of the great writer and his family in an act of institutionally-sanctioned bodysnatching.
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The voices of young victims in Haiti can now be heard for the first time thanks to a groundbreaking new research project.
Image from ‘Criminal man, according to the classification of Cesare Lombroso’ (1911).
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We may think tattooing is a modern phenomenon, but the reasons for its popularity are not dissimilar to those seen in the prisons and convict ships of the Victorian era.
A protester wearing a Guy Fawkes mask flashing a victory sign in Beirut in November 2019.
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Wars don’t produce winners and losers – they never really did.