By Charles J. Russo, Joseph Panzer Chair in Education and Research Professor of Law, University of Dayton
Landor v. Louisiana, one of this year’s highest-profile religious freedom cases, underscores how complex legal protections for free exercise are in the US today.
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By Michelle Spear, Professor of Anatomy, University of Bristol
Allison Fulford, Associate Professor, School of Anatomy
Frankenstein’s creature is coming back to life – again. As Guillermo del Toro’s new adaptation of Mary Shelley’s gothic masterpiece airs on Netflix, we provide an anatomist’s perspective of her tale of reanimation. Could an assembled body ever breathe, bleed or think?
When Shelley wrote Frankenstein in 1818, anatomy was a science on the edge of revelation and respectability. Public dissection theatres drew crowds, body snatchers supplied medical schools with illicit corpses and electricity promised…
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By Andrea Wright, Senior Lecturer in Teaching and Learning Development, Edge Hill University
In March 1955, an 18-year-old Jim Henson built a puppet from his mother’s old coat, a pair of blue jeans and some ping pong balls. The lizard-like creation first appeared on Afternoon, a television series on Washington D.C.’s WRC-TV, but became a regular on the five-minute Sam and Friends puppet sketch comedy show from May 1955. Over 70 years, the creature evolved into Kermit. The bright green frog now is a cultural icon.
To mark 70 years of The Jim Henson…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Pastor Gábor Iványi of the Hungarian Evangelical Fellowship speaks with National Tax and Customs officials during an armed raid on his church’s center in Budapest, Hungary on February 21, 2022. © 2022 Hungarian Evangelical Fellowship Instead of supporting those who fill the gaps left by Hungary’s crumbling public services and social security system, the government is prosecuting them. On November 3, prosecutors charged Pastor Gábor Iványi, who has long defended the rights of people living in poverty, with “group-committed violence against an official person”…
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By Thomas M. R. Gérard, PhD candidate, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University
Floor van der Hilst, Associate Professor, Energy and Resources Group, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University
Judith A. Verstegen, Associate Professor, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Utrecht University
The choices made in Brazil, where the COP30 UN climate conference takes place this month, have consequences for the entire planet.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The dismissal is etched into the mind of all who were there at the time, but at its 50th anniversary is its legacy really appreciated?
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By Dan Baumgardt, Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol
It seems contradictory: the pills you’re taking for headaches might actually be perpetuating them. Medication-overuse headache is a well-documented medical phenomenon, but the good news is it’s often reversible once identified.
Over 10 million people in the UK regularly get headaches, making up about one in every 25 visits to a GP. Most headaches…
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By Lisa Vanhala, Professor of Political Science, UCL
Ten years after the world agreed on an historic framework for climate action, the very features that made the Paris agreement possible are now holding it back. Designed to foster cooperation, it has instead become a system for forging agreement rather than delivering change.
As world leaders head to Belém, Brazil, for “Cop30” – the 30th session of the international climate negotiations – here’s how the system broke, and how we can begin to fix it.
Back in 2015, the Paris agreement was not a foregone…
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By Daniel Moulin, Associate Professor in Philosophy and World Religions, University of Cambridge
An independent review of the national curriculum in England, commissioned by the government, has published its final report. One of the key recommendations is to work towards the addition of religious education (RE) to the curriculum. This would mean RE would have the same status as other humanities subjects for the first time.
The review recommends the creation of a “task and finish group” to devise a religious education curriculum. This would then potentially become part of the national curriculum.…
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By Guest Contributor
The ceasefire may have silenced the bombs, but it has not ended the damage to the land, the water, or the atmosphere we all share.
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