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Where our money comes from is deeply political and the politics involved is often highly complex.
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Zoolander 2, anyone?
‘Wakey, wakey, sleepy head.’
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A wake-up call for early school mornings?
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Hair samples reveal how stress and obesity are linked.
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In this episode we look at historical visions of the future and how accurate they were, the future of work, and what it's like to predict the future for a day job.
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Alternative facts owe more to Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World than Orwell’s 1984.
The humble mulberry leaf contains medicinally useful compounds.
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Traditional Chinese medicine suggests that mulberry leaves may be useful for treating diabetes. A new clinical trial supports that suggestion.
Artist’s impression of what the view might be like from the surface of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1f.
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If there’s life on one of the Earth’s seven sisters, chances are it has spread to all of them.
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‘Acoustic monitoring’ can help us protect animals and their habitats.
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When is a pack of cards truly random?
A triple whammy for wine?
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Bottling up concerns over the price of imports.
An activist takes part in a protest in December 2015 to mark the third anniversary of the Delhi bus gang rape.
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The alleged sexual assault of a well-known actress in Kerala has sparked outrage and exposed serious gender issues at the heart of the society.
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There’s a lot of talk about a Brexit ‘divorce bill’ costing the UK tens of billions – we got two academics to check the facts.
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Where we choose to go on trips abroad is easily skewed by the nature of news reports, and that can have huge impacts on destinations.
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Some Olympic venues have become withered husks – but it’s not all bad news.
Macron’s stumble on colonialism.
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The presidential candidate stoked anger on the right by calling French colonialism a ‘crime against humanity’.
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The beleaguered new president is driving a wedge between his citizens and the media. Nixon would have been proud.
Bookplates held a special place in the heart of the Edwardians.
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Bookplates showed wealth, personality, status – and a sense of humour.
Signing the Treaty of Rome in 1957.
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It’s almost as though Europe saw Brexit coming when the Treaties of Rome were signed in 1957.
The struggle to be together.
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Supreme Court upholds controversial immigration rules for families introduced in 2012. It means families will have to earn a minimum income to bring over spouses from abroad.
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The billionaire digital tycoon has a vision for a bright future. His bright future, mainly.
Millions of lives are saved by blood transfusions every year.
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The guidelines don’t go far enough to clarify what to do in the case of refusals by children.
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But are UK universities running the risk of institutionalising public engagement?
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Another article about the politics of La La Land? This time it’s personal.
Is it safe?
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Owning a cat during pregnancy has been linked with later mental health problems in the child. But moggies may have been unfairly maligned.