Why important education research often gets ignored
By Dennis Hayes, University of Derby
Teachers’ professional development is “fragmented, occasional and insufficiently informed by research”. These were the conclusions of a recent British...
How a young Ernest Hemingway dealt with his first taste of fame
Verna Kale, Pennsylvania State University
When he published “The Sun Also Rises” in 1926, Ernest Hemingway was well-known among the expatriate literati of Paris and...
Giving patients control over their healthcare is a great aspiration, but do we mean...
By Brendan McCormack, Queen Margaret University
In mental health, a new approach to rehabilitating patients back into the community is gaining ground. Known as “the...
So who does own the copyright on a monkey selfie?
By Andrew Charlesworth, University of Bristol
Whilst visiting a national park in North Sulawesi wildlife photographer David Slater had his camera stolen – not by...
Access denied: how security is transforming public space
By Susan Silberberg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The recent security lapses at the White House have brought to the forefront the 13-year-old question of how...
At Chernobyl and Fukushima, radioactivity has seriously harmed wildlife
Timothy A. Mousseau, University of South Carolina
The largest nuclear disaster in history occurred 30 years ago at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in what...
The psychology behind why clowns creep us out
Frank T. McAndrew, Knox College
For the past several months, creepy clowns have been terrorizing America, with sightings of actual clowns in at least 10...
Bleed me: why excess iron can be dangerous
Richard Stevens, University of Connecticut
Iron is a most versatile element. It is essential to many of the enzymes that are the engines for life,...
