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Food waste is responsible for 3 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions.
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Addressing serious disconnects between Labour and its ‘traditional’ constituencies remains a key challenge for Keir Starmer’s party.
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Account of the murders written by Thomas More was based more in fact than fiction.
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Would anyone want to spend more screen time talking about pandemics? Yes, learned an anthropologist, biologist and historian who developed a course on the topic.
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The course offers a model for teaching about complex problems, and underlines the critical role of university learning, research and outreach in understanding and addressing them.
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Military lawyers told me how they must make split-second decisions that weigh military variables against real human lives.
Protests against police brutality in New York following the killing of George Floyd in 2020.
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Colonial police organisations used similar arguments to uphold their power as were heard in the trial of George Floyd’s murderer.
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We studied people’s brains while they held tools correctly and incorrectly.
Lower fertility was linked to poorer health outcomes for both men and women.
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Our study found that the longer it took a person to conceive, the poorer their health was in later life.
Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires, Argentina, with a view of the city in the background. Date: circa 1908.
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A missing girl, a sensational trial, and the troubled history of anti-trafficking.
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Or have we reached peak human intelligence?
Substantial savings could be made by improving everyone’s mental wellbeing.
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Our study shows that higher levels of mental wellbeing is associated with less money being spent on health and social care.
An ironworks in Durgapur, India.
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Countries cannot be expected to all tread the same path to net zero emissions.
Life is for living…
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If you are shipwrecked on a desert island with no hope of being rescued, you may not be morally obligated to stay alive.
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What the famous physician of ancient Greece, Hippocrates, can teach us about post-pandemic architecture.
Meerkats on high alert.
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Tracking species over their lifetimes can reveal their climate adaptation secrets.
An assortment of legumes.
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Legumes have a superpower: they can convert nitrogen in the air into a form plants can use to grow.
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A traumatic childhood can affect you physically, mentally and socially.
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Prominent academics, including a former IPCC chair, round on governments worldwide for using the concept of net zero emissions to ‘greenwash’ their lack of commitment to solving global warming.
John Maynard Keynes is one of the giants of modern economics.
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The English economist’s views on “animal spirits” are vital to understanding his work.