From balcony concerts to Zoom choirs, neuroscience shows why people are compelled to connect through music while the pandemic keeps them under stay-at-home orders.
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Refugee-led organisations in camps and cities in Uganda are at the frontline of the response to COVID-19 response.
Charisma can only get you so far in the face of a global pandemic. Research on leadership suggests another approach is needed.
Three graphs of mortality data tell the story of the direction the UK and the world are heading in after the peak of the coronavirus outbreak.
We can’t go to the theatre but some creative theatre groups are bringing it to us, via Zoom.
Seberapa besar dampak dari mudik masyarakat terhadap kenaikan jumlah kasus dan penyebaran COVID-19 perlu segera diteliti.
The Bard’s plays have an unfair reputation for being hard. You’re probably reading them in the wrong way.
We must figure out how to scale the lockdown up and down as needed – possibly several times. We might need to locally switch areas on and off – not the whole country – to deal with isolated outbreaks.
The nocebo effect could be making more people ill.
It is not the case that all extreme weather events are being made stronger or more frequent.
Trump pulling US funding from WHO served to deflect blame from his own bungled handling of coronavirus.
One practical exit strategy from lockdown would be identifying green zones, and progressively joining them together once it is safe to do so.
A crib sheet for Dominic Raab.
If the pandemic is a sort of climate ‘stress-test’, the world is failing it.
Who can and can’t move and why is crucial to understanding the virus.
We now have the technology to identify people who are on a fast track to developing dementia.
Churches will remain closed over Easter, but theologians have argued over the centuries that faith itself, not ritual, is the heart and soul of Christianity.
Vocal vaccine critics may not find the audience they’re looking for while the pandemic rages.
If wildlife trade is forced underground it could become an even bigger threat to public health, fuel black market prices, and accelerate exploitation and extinction of species in the wild.
We need to be clearer about what’s at stake when deciding how, for what purpose, and against whom, police authority is deployed.
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Director of the Jenner Institute, University of Oxford
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Departmental Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Oxford
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Behavioural and Evolutionary Ecology, University of Oxford
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Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration, University of Oxford
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Researcher in Music, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor in Climate Change Biology, University of Oxford
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Postdoctoral researcher, University of Oxford
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Senior Researcher in Economics, University of Oxford
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Global Head of Wildlife Research, World Animal Protection, and Visiting Researcher, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), University of Oxford
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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DPhil Candidate, Faculty of History, University of Oxford
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Professor of Climate Science, University of Oxford
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PhD Candidate, Biochemistry, University of Oxford
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Professor of Climate Economics and Policy, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford
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Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford
