By Lyndsay Murray, Senior Lecturer, Anatomy, University of Edinburgh
Scotland is now screening every newborn for a condition that can kill within two years. Here is what parents across the UK need to know.
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By Huysentruyt Marieke, Professeur Associé, Directrice Académique de l’Impact Company Lab, HEC Paris Business School
Our report analyses both monetary and non-monetary value sharing schemes within companies and whether they are a way of avoiding social conflicts in the workplace.
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By Mohammad Hossein Amirhosseini, Associate Professor, Computer Science and Digital Technologies, University of East London
Your workplace wellbeing app may be doing more than tracking your mood. It could be analysing your voice, your words and your behaviour – and you may never have been told.
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By Allan Greer, Professor Emeritus of History, McGill University
Long before today’s decline in alcohol consumption, rum played a central role in Canada’s economy, shaping labour relations in the fisheries and fur trade.
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By Tom Hemingway, Teaching Fellow in Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick
Despite fears the US format would not work in the UK, SNL UK’s first episode went off without a hitch.
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By Ronald W. Pruessen, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Toronto
American voters, even those aligned with Donald Trump’s MAGA movement, usually shift course when they see they didn’t get what they voted for. Will this fate befall Trump in November?
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By Helen Yaffe, Lecturer in Economic and Social History, University of Glasgow
There were tearful scenes in the central American nation of Honduras on February 23, as locals said goodbye to the Cuban healthcare professionals who had been treating them for free for around two years. It came after the Honduran government abruptly ended the Cuban medical mission under pressure from the administration of the US president, Donald Trump.
That same day, a “sensitive” US State Department memo was sent to the secretary of state, Marco Rubio. It discussed the…
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By Adi Imsirovic, Lecturer in Energy Systems, University of Oxford
On March 19, Ras Laffan, the largest liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal in the world, supplying one-fifth of the world’s super-chilled fuel, was hit by Iranian missiles and drones. The Qatari terminal suffered substantial damage in the strikes – fires were raging across the gas-to-liquids facility within the complex, which covers 295 square kilometres – the size of a large city.
Investments worth tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars disappeared into thin air. Damage was estimated to be so extensive…
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By Trang Chu, Associate Fellow, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Tim Morris, Emeritus Professor, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Rhetoric on both sides has gone from criticising the behaviour of their adversary to labeling its character as fundamentally ‘evil’.
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By Amnesty International
Responding to a decision by a court in Kyrgyzstan to release investigative journalist and Temirov LIVE editor-in-chief Makhabat Tazhibek-kyzy from custody and subject her to a travel ban pending a retrial, Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s Eastern Europe and Central Asia Director, said: “While Makhabat Tazhibek-kyzy’s release from prison is a long-overdue step towards justice that […] The post Kyrgyzstan: Authorities must drop trumped up charges against Makhabat Tazhibek-kyzy following her release from prison appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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