By Julia Thomas, Professor of English Literature, Cardiff University
When film adaptations disappoint, it’s not bad filmmaking necessarily but a clash with the private images we create when we read.
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By Abigail Harrison Moore, Professor of Art History and Museum Studies, School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds
Teaching art at HMP Wakefield changed my life. This series includes the most accurate description of prison teaching I have seen.
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By Dominik Piehlmaier, Visiting Fellow, Cambridge Judge Business School
Understanding finance isn’t enough – it’s vital to be able to apply that knowledge when there is pressure on your wallet.
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By Ian Manners, Professor, Department of Political Science, Lund University
European countries, and Denmark in particular, are scrambling to respond to threats from US officials over the future of Greenland.
Having successfully taken out the leadership of Venezuela in a raid on January 3, an emboldened US government is talking about simply taking Greenland for itself.
Various European leaders have expressed their concern but haven’t been able to formulate…
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By Maurizio Valsania, Professor of American History, Università di Torino
For the nation’s first president, friendliness was strategy, not concession: the republic would treat other nations with civility in order to remain independent of their appetites and quarrels.
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By Nishant Kumar, India Alliance Fellow, National Centre for Biological Science, Bangalore & Department of Biology, University of Oxford
Growing up in rural India, my grandmother would feed the village dog half a chapati and a bowl of milk each afternoon, surely insufficient for its needs. The dog survived by scavenging from nearby homes. Years later, living in Delhi, I encountered street dogs refusing biscuits, overfed by households competing to care for them.
India’s unique mix of religious and cultural values creates a deep tolerance for non-humans and wildlife among rich and poor alike, often rooted in millennia of coexistence. People consciously endure…
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By Carole Haswell, Professor of Astrophysics, The Open University
We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of these is whether Earth is the only place that harbours life.
In the last 30 years, the question of whether the Sun is unique in hosting a planetary system has been resoundingly answered: we now know of thousands of exoplanets orbiting other stars.
But can we use telescopes to detect whether any of these distant worlds also harbour life? A promising method is to analyse the gases present in the atmospheres of these planets.
We now know…
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By Rahul Sidhu, PhD Candidate, Neuroscience, University of Sheffield
A UK man who is thought to be Britain’s youngest dementia sufferer recently passed away from the disease at only 24 years old. Andre Yarham, from Norfolk in England, was just 22 when he was first diagnosed with dementia.
At the age of 24, most brains are still settling into adulthood. But Yarham’s brain looked decades older — resembling the brain of a 70-year-old, according to the MRI scan that helped diagnose him with the disease.
Yarham initially…
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By Daniele D'Alvia, Lecturer in Banking and Finance Law, Queen Mary University of London
On January 3, the world watched in disbelief as the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, was captured by US forces. It was a dramatic geopolitical event that would reverberate not just in Washington and Caracas, but deep into global financial markets.
Financial speculation erupted across prediction platforms, bond markets and even cryptocurrency. It was a frenzy that, for some, translated into enormous profits – something I have looked…
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By Berry Billingsley, Director of AI, Digital and Online Development, Swansea University
The rise of humanoid robots isn’t just a technical story – it’s a test of how much human connection we’re willing to outsource.
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