By Guest Contributor
We charge danger money... If I am risking my life to transport passengers, don’t I have the right to make some profit off of it?
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By Jillian Sunderland, PhD Student , University of Toronto
Gen Z’s ‘performative male’ trend is both mocked and embraced because it exposes deep cultural contradictions around what we expect of masculinity today.
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By Daryl Janzen, Observatory Manager and Instructor, Astronomy, University of Saskatchewan
How can time feel so obvious, so woven into the fabric of our experience and yet, for thousands of years, remain the bane of every thinker who has tried to explain it?
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By Lynn Abrams, Chair of Modern History, School of Humanities, University of Glasgow
Knitters and crafters had been anticipating Channel 4’s new craft show Game of Wool for some time. Knitting, so long the poor relation of the textile crafts, was finally to take centre stage on primetime television.
Hosted by former Olympic diver and knitting convert Tom Daley, the show draws on the creative and technical skills of Di Gilpin and Shelia Greenwell – two of Scotland’s most high-profile hand-knitting specialists as judges. Game of Wool was set to join the BBC’s Great…
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By Matthew Flinders, Founding Director of the Sir Bernard Crick Centre for the Public Understanding of Politics, University of Sheffield
A vacuum exists at the apex of British government, and at some point this weakness will lead to a challenge.
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By Karah Dring, Senior Lecturer in Exercise and Health, Nottingham Trent University
Grace Walters, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Sports Science, Nottingham Trent University
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the most common disability diagnosis in children globally. It’s estimated to affect around 8% of children aged 3-12 years, and around 6% of teenagers aged 12-18 years.
ADHD can make school difficult for children – affecting their behaviour in class, their attendance and their academic performance. But research my colleagues and…
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By Lorenza Rossi, Professor in Economics, Lancaster University
Stefano Fasani, Lecturer in Macroeconomics, Lancaster University
UK inflation has dropped to 3.6% but it remains well above the Bank of England’s 2% target. Beyond broader global uncertainties, there are also factors within our own homes that are quietly sustaining this stubborn issue. Namely, automatic annual price uplifts in everyday contracts for things like mobile phones and utilities.
UK inflation is expected to become the highest…
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By Susan Gourvenec, Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies - Intelligent & Resilient Ocean Engineering, University of Southampton
Wassim Dbouk, Marine and Maritime Policy Research Fellow, University of Southampton
How to shift the ‘grey’ ocean economy that prioritises the unequal extraction of resources towards a ‘blue’ economy that benefits all.
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By Leonie Fleischmann, Senior Lecturer in International Politics, City St George's, University of London
The UN security council has voted to adopt a resolution endorsing US president Donald Trump’s plan to end the war in Gaza. However, while the resolution references a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood, the road to such an outcome is far from determined.
The resolution, which received 13 votes in favour and none against, with abstentions from Russia and…
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By Amnesty International
Responding to the European Commission’s so-called “digital omnibus” proposals, which will dismantle the bloc’s protections against digital threats, Damini Satija, Programme Director at Amnesty Tech, said: “The EU’s ongoing deregulatory push will lead to a weakening of people’s rights and expose them to digital oppression. It will open the door to unlawful surveillance, discriminatory profiling in welfare and policing, strip people of their right to have control of their personal data and object to automated decisions, and the spread of harmful […] The post EU: Digital omnibus proposals will…
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