The Natural History Museum in London is replacing its skeleton of the long-necked dinosaur Diplodocus – an iconic denizen of the main entrance hall for nearly four decades – with a blue whale skeleton…
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It will come as no surprise to anyone that drugs are big business, so when a drone crashed in a car park of a US border town weighed down with several kilos of narcotics, it was just another example of…
The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs set off an intense heat wave that briefly boiled the Earth’s atmosphere – but it didn’t burn off all the plants. Humanity has not been unlucky enough to observe…
In his biography of Sir Thomas More, Peter Ackroyd audaciously asks us to imagine pre-Reformation London as the street markets of Marrakesh. Cheapside would have been a bustling surge of traders and customers…
Don’t tell them this, but UKIP are the most European party out there. Britain’s democracy is increasingly diverse and complex, and with the growth of UKIP on the right and the Greens on the left its political…
Ever since the US Senate’s devastating report into the CIA interrogation practices, which concluded the agency’s conduct amounted to torture, the debate over how to punish those responsible has gone unanswered…
France has had a long and troubled relationship with its Muslim populations. French armies faced down Muslim leaders during the expansion of the country’s empire in Africa in the 19th century. And in the…
My colleagues and I recently had the great privilege to announce a remarkable new discovery: a dolphin-like reptile that prowled the Middle Jurassic waters 170 million years ago. When you think of scientists…
The dairy sector in the UK is going through a period of high uncertainty. Not only are suppliers having to cope with retail price wars and the fact that milk prices are being reduced by the increasing…
The expansion of higher education in the UK has been driven by a political desire to increase economic growth and to promote social mobility at the same time by drawing more graduates from a larger pool…
The new proposals for extending more powers to Scotland by the Smith Commission are radical: devolving extensive tax and welfare powers will make Scotland one of the most autonomous regions in western…
The World Health Organisation has defined obesity in children as a major threat to public health and the UK government treats it as a high priority. While we know a lot about the problem of childhood obesity…
Here’s a figure that deserves some attention: in the first year in which Scotland had a single police force, 8,000 stop searches were carried out by armed response officers, an average of 29 searches by…
Poverty is associated with a great number of health problems. One relatively recent health crisis largely attributed to poverty is obesity. According to the World Health Organisation, obesity rates have…
Note: this article has spoilers. In Interstellar’s near-ish future, our climate has failed catastrophically, crops die in vast blights and America is a barely-habitable dustbowl. Little education beyond…
Improve the school results of children from poor backgrounds and they will escape poverty in adulthood. This is the way the UK government believes it can alleviate child poverty, built on a belief in the…
The current outbreak of Ebola in West Africa (and perhaps elsewhere) and now Marburg Fever, a related a hemorrhagic fever virus in Uganda, has generated much talk about the collective “failures” to pre-empt…
Burkina Faso has suddenly grabbed the world’s attention with a remarkable popular uprising, in which hundreds of thousands of Burkinabé have forced the resignation of long-serving president Blaise Compaor…
The group charged with delivering more devolution to Scotland is to draw up the most significant programme of constitutional change for the UK since 1998 this November. Already the period when citizens…
When, in armed conflict, civilians are killed on a large scale, when schools are attacked and children are orphaned, charges of genocide are often not far behind. In discussions about Operation Protective…
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Chancellor's Fellow, History of Medicine, Emotions and Modern British History, The University of Edinburgh
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Reader in Psychology, The University of Edinburgh
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Professor of Medical Jurisprudence, The University of Edinburgh
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Senior Lecturer in Territorial Politics, The University of Edinburgh
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Professor of International Child Protection Research and Director of Data at the Childlight Global Child Safety Institute , The University of Edinburgh
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Lecturer in Corporate and Insolvency Law, The University of Edinburgh
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Personal Chair of Nineteenth-Century Art, History of Art, The University of Edinburgh
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Chair of Sport and Head of the Academy of Sport, The University of Edinburgh
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Chancellor's Fellow, Deanery of Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences Usher Institute Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society, The University of Edinburgh
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Senior Lecturer in Sport and Leisure Policy, The University of Edinburgh
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Research Fellow, Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World, The University of Edinburgh
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Chancellor's Fellow Sociology and History of Biomedicine, The University of Edinburgh
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Interdisciplinary Research Fellow in Biomedicine, Self and Society, The University of Edinburgh
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Féminisme, Mouvements sociaux, Travail, Agriculture, Politique, The University of Edinburgh
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Reader in Astrobiology, The University of Edinburgh
