By John William Devine, Senior Lecturer in Ethics, Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Swansea University
Every year since the first Wimbledon Championship in 1877, a male player with a one-handed backhand has featured in the singles semi-finals of a grand slam. That 149 year streak ended at this year’s US Open when Stefanos Tsitsipas, the last remaining single-hander in the draw, exited the tournament in the round of 16.
This is a watershed moment for tennis, as it marks a break with the origins of the sport and the culmination of a five decades-long trend towards hitting the backhand with two hands on the racket.…
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By Mathieu Lajante, Associate Professor in Marketing, Toronto Metropolitan University
Advertising can turn our fears about aging, failure and belonging into reasons to buy, and repeated exposure can reshape what we see as a good life.
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By Ukachukwu Abaraogu, Senior Lecturer, Public Health, Evidence Synthesis & Rehabilitation, University of the West of Scotland
Chris Seenan, Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy, University of Stirling
Regular scans help clinicians monitor small aneurysms, but patients describe recurring fears and confusion about what they can safely do.
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By Uisce Jordan, Research Associate, University of Glasgow
Parliament is back in session, and Andy Burnham is set to put his promise of becoming a “cost-of-living government” into practice. Since 2021, economic and geopolitical instability has led UK households to struggle with a fall in real disposable income and inflation, particularly around food and energy prices.
Families are under sustained pressure to meet essential costs. This pressure is likely to intensify as the US-Iran conflict and disruption around the…
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By Brian Fauteux, Associate Professor Popular Music and Media Studies, University of Alberta
Andrew deWaard, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego
Brianne Selman, Scholarly Communications & Copyright Librarian, University of Winnipeg
A recent survey of working musicians in Canada points to a growing discontent about AI in music, and points to how we could gain a music industry that allows Canadian music to flourish.
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By Sofia Borushkina, Researcher at The Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute; Monash University
Support settlements are now at the forefront of Russian federal spatial policy and they tell us a lot about how the land lies in Russia today.
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By Sam Power, Lecturer in Politics, University of Bristol
British politics looks set to be dominated in the coming weeks and months by the £72 million donated to Reform UK. This is because, and there’s really no other way to cut the cake here, this is an astonishing amount of money.
The donations to Reform came in the space of just one weekend – £36 million each from crypto billionaires Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne. Delo has ties to Hong Kong, while Harborne – whose self-confessed “competitive…
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By Louis Busch, Psychotherapist, Doctoral Candidate (UofT OISE), Bear Clan Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation., University of Toronto
An Anishinaabe storyteller and healer from Serpent River First Nation shares Ojibwe teachings on suffering, acceptance and Ceremony as ways of connecting Indigenous healing wisdom with psychological practice.
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By Amnesty International
Last year’s “State of the European Union” speech made headlines when European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen finally proposed suspending the trade part of the EU-Israel Association Agreement and sanctioning Israeli ministers and settlers. One year on, almost none of those measures have been adopted, and as more and more EU countries and allies […] The post Von der Leyen’s failures on Israel must end, starting with a settlement trade ban appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Mark Boylan, Professor of Education, Sheffield Hallam University
Every three years, the Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) tests the reading, maths and science skills of 15-year-olds in countries across the world.
Each Pisa cycle other skills are tested: in 2025, computational problem solving and use of AI were two additional topics covered. Pisa, carried out by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), also asks the young people tested questions about their experience of school and their attitude to learning.
The latest…
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