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There is little evidence that pads alone will keep girls in school – stigma, lack of appropriate infrastructure, and embarrassment need to be dealt with too.
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Stop and search and other police tactics cannot address the complicated social problems that are linked to knife crime.
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Happiness is a human construct, an abstract idea with no biological basis. But this is something to be happy about.
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The ethnic and religious composition of our societies is increasing rapidly. How will these changes impact our quality of life?
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Scrapping the idea of a species is an extreme idea – but perhaps a good one.
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Ultra-processed products have little or no intact ‘food’ remaining in them. And much-praised industry led reformulation is doing nothing effective about this.
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The focus on the ageing of women is by no means a modern phenomenon.
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Universities play a significant role in the high and rising air travel footprint – and they need to do more about it.
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The food system urgently needs to be redesigned if we are to avoid crisis.
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The British nuclear weapon tests on Kiritimati (or Christmas) Island had profound and lasting cultural consequences for both atomic veterans and local islanders.
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Migration offers a fix for the islands ‘drowning’ as a consequence of the climate crisis – but are there better alternatives?
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We are living through the latest battle in a 300-year long ideological war over the meaning of humanity itself.
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It’s time race equality was practised in the academy, not just preached.
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We spoke at length with a series of self-identified preppers. It became clear that most aren’t so out of the ordinary.
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Far from being a technical, commercial instrument, money can be a social and political construct that has immense radical potential.
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As climate change threatens to bring more sudden rainstorms, we need to rethink the way we manage water.
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Why sexual and gender based violence has become a phenomenon within refugee families.
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The process of radicalisation is a complex system that cannot be reduced to the brain, behaviour, or environment. It exists at the intersection of all these elements.
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Having problems with Siri and Google Translate? Here’s why.
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I wanted to see whether this extreme example of a team effort could tell us anything about the workplace.