By Sam Illingworth, Professor of Creative Pedagogies, Edinburgh Napier University
Barbara Barrow, Senior Lecturer, English Literature, Lund University
Ellen Turner, Senior Lecturer, English Literature, Lund University
The discourse around climate change can lead to anxiety, detachment or resignation because it often stretches language in ways that make the world feel distant.
Global averages and abstract temperature thresholds make it harder for people to relate to climate change in their own specific location. And while the language of sustainable…
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By Ed Hutchinson, Professor, MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, University of Glasgow
The MMRV jab protects against chickenpox and its lifelong complications. Here’s what the new vaccination schedule means for your family.
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By Matthew Flinders, Founding Director of the Sir Bernard Crick Centre for the Public Understanding of Politics, University of Sheffield
The dominant narrative in British politics is destructive, cynical and polarising. It focuses on failure and perpetuates the doom loop.
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By Bill Sherman, Director of the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London
The V&A’s new Museum and Storehouse were built with the spirit that the museum was founded on in the mid 1800s.
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By Laura Baehr, Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences, Drexel University
One in five Philadelphians are age 60 or older, and the city’s senior population has been growing for at least the past decade.
I’m a Philly-based physical therapist and researcher who studies how to boost physical activity for seniors…
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By Jenn Finders, Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, Colorado State University
Colorado is the sixth-least affordable state for child care in the nation. Costs for center-based care average 14% of a two-parent household’s median income and 45% of a single parent’s median income. The federal affordability benchmark is just 7%.
Colorado also faces significant…
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By Lisa Bosman, Associate Professor of Technology Leadership and Innovation, Purdue University
Students who participated in the virtual Research Experience for Undergraduates at Purdue reported stronger gains in research skills than in-person summer interns.
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By Ray Madoff, Professor of Law, Boston College
Law professor Ray Madoff is the co-founder and director of the Boston College Forum on Philanthropy and the Public Good. In an interview with Emily Schwartz Greco, The Conversation U.S. philanthropy and nonprofits editor, Madoff sums up some of the main points about charitable giving she makes in her 2025 book, “The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy.”…
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By Jaclyn L. Tanenbaum, Associate Teaching Professor, Florida International University
Karen Anne Wallach, Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Alabama in Huntsville
By openly saying, ‘This isn’t for you,’ brands signal focus and specificity. That helps the right customers feel a stronger connection.
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By Kamran Talattof, Professor of Near Eastern Studies, University of Arizona
Angered not just by social crises, Iranians are asking fundamental questions about the costs and sacrifices demanded by the Islamic Republic’s ruling ideology.
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