By James Thie, Senior Lecturer Sport Coaching and Performance, Cardiff Metropolitan University
Running doesn’t have to be all or nothing. Jeffing, the run-walk strategy developed in the 1970s, is helping people achieve their running goals.
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By Marrisa Joseph, Associate Professor of Organisation Studies & Business History, University of Reading
In selling off its high street branches, the retail giant is going back to its Victorian roots in transport hubs.
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By Arzu Geybullayeva
The proposal seeks to amend several key legal codes, including the Turkish Penal Code and the Law on the Establishment and Broadcasting Services of Radio and Televisions.
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By Alexander F Santillo, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Consultant Psychiatrist, Lund University
Olof Lindberg, Associate Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet
Frontotemporal dementia has gained significant attention in recent years after the family of actor Bruce Willis announced in 2023 that he had been diagnosed with the condition. A year later, it was revealed that US chat show host Wendy Williams had also been diagnosed with the condition.
Yet despite all this recent attention,…
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By María Villanueva Fernández, Profesora del Grado en Diseño y del Grado en Estudios de Arquitectura de la ETSAUN y del Programa Internacional en Comunicación de Moda de FCOM, Universidad de Navarra
Héctor García-Diego Villarías, Profesor Titular Proyectos y Teoría Arquitectónica , Universidad de Navarra
On 28 April 1925, the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts opened in Paris. It was a landmark event in the evolution of art, architecture and design, and aroused great interest both for the works on display and for their impact.
In interwar Spain, it was the most widely publicised event in…
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By Taneshka Kruger, UP ISMC: Project Manager and Coordinator, University of Pretoria
Tiaan de Jager, Dean: Faculty of Health Sciences and Director: UP Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control, University of Pretoria
The fight against malaria faces many obstacles, including funding cuts. But it remains far cheaper to prevent the disease than to treat it.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Withe just one week to go in the election campaign, cost of living and defence featured strongly in the campaign.
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By Gemma Ware, Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
Few places on earth are immune to the explosion of anti-vaccination conspiracy theories and health disinformation fuelled by the COVID pandemic. But in countries like Brazil, where the disinformation flowed from the very top of government, the problem is even more acute and some people are exploiting the fear of others to make money.
In this episode of The Conversation Weekly, we hear about new research out of Brazil into how peddlers of disinformation on social media also sell fake cures and vaccine detoxes. And we ask why…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A view of the Congress building in Lima, Peru, September 17, 2018. © REUTERS/Guadalupe Pardo Having a disability should never result in a person being denied freedom. Yet across Latin America, thousands of people with disabilities are still forcibly institutionalized, often from a young age, with little control over their lives. A new amendment to Peru’s General Law on Persons with Disabilities unfortunately exemplifies this problem.On April 2, 2025, Peru’s Congress added article 29.2 to the law, which states: “The State promotes the creation of specialized care…
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Thursday, April 24, 2025
Grim details continued to emerge on Thursday in the aftermath of a wave of Russian attacks on the Ukrainian capital and other cities overnight, with early reports indicating that at least nine people were killed and dozens injured.
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