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We may think tattooing is a modern phenomenon, but the reasons for its popularity are not dissimilar to those seen in the prisons and convict ships of the Victorian era.
Wars don't produce winners and losers – they never really did.
These inspirational food sharing initiatives around the world demonstrate that sustainable food system can – and should – be democratic.
We've known how to control typhoid for over 100 years. The rapid current increase of drug-resistant variants in both rich and poor countries is down to decades of short-sighted global health policies.
Climate change is already worsening the chaos attendant on resource shortage – and, therefore, death rates.
The design of the global money game is the real antagonist in the fight against climate change. But the call to arms tends to be directed at the players who have had best luck with the dice.
From mobile phones to artificial wombs: what a breathtakingly visionary set of predictions from a century ago can teach us about our attempts to forecast the future today.
Realising the silence of outer space was what made us appreciate our precarious position down on this pale blue dot – so beginning our obsession with extinction.
The British nuclear weapon tests on Kiritimati (or Christmas) Island had profound and lasting cultural consequences for both atomic veterans and local islanders.
We are living through the latest battle in a 300-year long ideological war over the meaning of humanity itself.
It's time race equality was practised in the academy, not just preached.
Far from being a technical, commercial instrument, money can be a social and political construct that has immense radical potential.
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.
Why radical changes to society are needed if we are to escape environmental disaster.
Evidence for the benefits of empathy in healthcare is mounting.
Developing breakthroughs takes time. So why rush explaining them?
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Senior Lecturer in Global Systems, University of Exeter
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Professor & Director, Global Sustainability Institute, Anglia Ruskin University
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Lecturer, 19th-Century History and Digital Humanities, University of Liverpool
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Professor of English, University of Birmingham
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Social Sciences, University of Oxford
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Lecturer in Political and Cultural Geographies, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Director of the Oxford Empathy Programme, University of Oxford
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Professor of Human Ecology, Lund University
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Clinician-Scientist, Queen's University, Ontario
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Chair professor, Trinity College Dublin
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PhD Candidate, Department of Security and Crime Science, UCL
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Emeritus Professor, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Senior Research Fellow, Global Sustainability Institute, Anglia Ruskin University
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychiatry and Legal Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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Professor in Modern History, University of Birmingham
