By Catherine Greenwood, Lecturer in Digital Marketing, University of Lancashire
The clocks have gone back, and suddenly getting dressed feels more difficult. The coat you wore constantly last winter is still hanging in the wardrobe, but it no longer looks quite how you remember. The boots you loved in February don’t seem to go with anything, while a jumper that once felt like you somehow doesn’t anymore.
Perhaps we’ve all simply forgotten how to dress for the cold. But there is something peculiar about returning to clothes we know so well and finding them unexpectedly unfamiliar.
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By Sol Gamsu, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Durham University
If you want to see how private schools in the UK can reinforce segregation between children of different social classes, the London Borough of Southwark provides a good example.
It has three large private secondary schools, less than in other wealthier London boroughs. When we took a close look at these schools, we found that 75% of the students are from the top two social classes: from families with higher professional and managerial backgrounds.
By contrast, in two of the 13…
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By Stacy Olive Jarvis, PhD Candidate in in Musicology, University of Birmingham
Tchaikovsky and his pupil Sergei Taneyev were united in embracing European cultural influences in Russian classical music – they just disagreed on how to go about it.
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By Deldhy Nicolás Moya Sánchez, Psychiatrist and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Using an ADHD diagnosis to avoid hard tasks, rather than to plan around them, is linked to more anxiety and lower quality of life.
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By Ankolika De, Postdoctoral fellow, Vanderbilt University
Jessica Maddox, Associate Professor of Advertising and Public Relations, University of Georgia
Meta’s Muse is a personal artificial intelligence agent that sends email for you, shops and books travel for you, and uses your apps to act on your behalf. When you call on it from your phone or computer, a little avatar named Jolly appears, looking something like a digitized teddy bear that blinks and waves to you.
Meta also released Muse Charm, a device with a screen the size of a flattened golf ball that you can keep in your pocket so you can access Jolly anytime. Journalists have…
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By Woon Ju Park, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology
People who have lived most of their lives blind often have extraordinary hearing abilities. In new research published in the Journal of Neuroscience, my colleagues and I discovered that this ability arises from how their auditory systems are able to more consistently and reliably process sounds compared with people who aren’t blind. And interestingly, sighted musicians seem to enhance their hearing through a similar mechanism.
Hearing is a complicated process. It…
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By Louisa Penfold, Professor of Education, Harvard University
Offering daily recess to young children and teenagers alike can help strengthen students’ executive functioning skills, focus and creativity, among other benefits.
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By Matthew Nudy, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Public Health Sciences, Penn State
If you’re a woman over 40, you have no doubt heard your doctor tell you to get a mammogram as part of routine screening for breast cancer. But there’s another reason, too.
A mammogram can show no sign of breast cancer and still reveal something worth discussing with a doctor: calcium deposits in the medium-sized arteries that carry blood to the breast. These calcium deposits may offer a clue to a woman’s future heart health.
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By Olayinka Stephen Ilesanmi, Assistant Professor of Healthcare Administration, Fayetteville State University
An epidemiologist who was on the ground during the 2014-16 Ebola outbreak examines the lessons that experience offers for the DRC.
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By Bridget Bwalya, Associate Professor in Natural Resources Management, University of Zambia
For decades, competing global development models have shaped sub-Saharan Africa’s agricultural landscape. Traditional western donors, such as the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), have promoted climate-smart agricultural systems such as conservation agriculture, working through non-governmental…
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