By Alex Hubbard, Associate lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University
By encouraging people to imagine beyond their own experience, reading poetry can help them see things from a different perspective.
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By Michelle Spear, Professor of Anatomy, University of Bristol
There’s something oddly luxurious about a lie-in. The sun filters through the curtains, the alarm clock is blissfully silent, and your body stays at rest. Yet lie-ins are often treated as indulgences, sometimes framed as laziness or a slippery slope to soft living.
When the holidays arrive and alarm clocks are switched off, or are set later, something else emerges: your body reclaims sleep. Not just more of it, but deeper, richer and more restorative sleep. Anatomically and neurologically, a lie-in might be exactly what your body needs to recover and recalibrate.
Throughout…
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By Rachel Woods, Senior Lecturer in Physiology, University of Lincoln
Weight is a visible, cheap and easy metric – but it doesn’t reflect what matters most: diet quality, physical activity, blood pressure, stress or metabolic health.
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By Adrian Bevan, Professor of Physics, School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London
The alchemist’s dream is to make gold from common metals, but can this be done? The physics needed to explain how to change one element into another is well understood and has been used for decades in accelerators and colliders, which smash sub-atomic particles together.
The most notable present-day example is the Large Hadron Collider at Cern, based in Geneva. But the costs of making gold this way are vast, and the quantities generated are minuscule.
For…
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By Sandra Tuombouh
Internet is more than a business tool. In Africa, young people are also using it to amplify their voices and get involved in politics, such is the case in Cameroon.
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By Scott Morgenstern, Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh
The U.S. has an important choice to make regarding agriculture.
It can import more people to pick crops and do other kinds of agricultural labor, it can raise wages enough to lure more U.S. citizens and immigrants with legal status to take these jobs, or it can import more food. All three options contradict key Trump administration priorities: reducing immigration, keeping prices low and importing…
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By Kevin Johnson, Dean and Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Davis
After his predecessors failed to diminish the US population of undocumented immigrants, President Trump is attempting to drastically reduce that population via unprecedented tactics.
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By Wilfredo José Burgos Matos, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, Lehman College, CUNY
From rural roots to international ballrooms, bachata has transformed from being disdained to becoming a global symbol of Dominican identity and reinvention.
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By Brian N. Chin, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Trinity College
Americans treat pets like family. So why do many people not know how to support friends and family when they lose a beloved pet?
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By Leslie Root, Assistant Professor of Research, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado Boulder
Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Shelley Clark, Professor of Sociology, McGill University
While the changes in population structure that accompany low birth rates are real, the impact of these changes has been dramatically overstated.
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