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Addressing serious disconnects between Labour and its ‘traditional’ constituencies remains a key challenge for Keir Starmer’s party.
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Plus, why sarcasm is so difficult for children to understand – and how to help them. Listen to episode 23 of The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Would anyone want to spend more screen time talking about pandemics? Yes, learned an anthropologist, biologist and historian who developed a course on the topic.
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The course offers a model for teaching about complex problems, and underlines the critical role of university learning, research and outreach in understanding and addressing them.
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Military lawyers told me how they must make split-second decisions that weigh military variables against real human lives.
Protests against police brutality in New York following the killing of George Floyd in 2020.
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Colonial police organisations used similar arguments to uphold their power as were heard in the trial of George Floyd’s murderer.
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We studied people’s brains while they held tools correctly and incorrectly.
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We shouldn’t allow disingenuous uses of net zero to discredit the concept as a whole.
Lower fertility was linked to poorer health outcomes for both men and women.
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Our study found that the longer it took a person to conceive, the poorer their health was in later life.
Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires, Argentina, with a view of the city in the background. Date: circa 1908.
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A missing girl, a sensational trial, and the troubled history of anti-trafficking.
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Invisible to the eye, the microbial life in the air around us can vary depending on our environment.
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Or have we reached peak human intelligence?
Substantial savings could be made by improving everyone’s mental wellbeing.
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Our study shows that higher levels of mental wellbeing is associated with less money being spent on health and social care.
An ironworks in Durgapur, India.
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Countries cannot be expected to all tread the same path to net zero emissions.
Sandhill Crane with adopted Canada Goose gosling.
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Biologists are puzzled by evidence of animals that care for those from other social groups or even species.
Life is for living…
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If you are shipwrecked on a desert island with no hope of being rescued, you may not be morally obligated to stay alive.
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What the famous physician of ancient Greece, Hippocrates, can teach us about post-pandemic architecture.
Cotton plants growing on a no-till field in Arkansas, US.
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Drilling instead of tilling the soil to plant seeds could help the ground store more carbon.
Meerkats on high alert.
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Tracking species over their lifetimes can reveal their climate adaptation secrets.
An assortment of legumes.
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Legumes have a superpower: they can convert nitrogen in the air into a form plants can use to grow.
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A traumatic childhood can affect you physically, mentally and socially.