Offensive marketing can work – but not if it vilifies women
Offensive marketing can work – but not if it vilifies women
Isabelle Szmigin
, University of Birmingham
Scott Taylor
, University of Birmingham
In 1969 the Family Planning Information...
The lure of Hamlet – …test of a lifetime for Benedict Cumberbatch
The lure of Hamlet – why this is the test of a lifetime for Benedict Cumberbatch
Russell Jackson
, University of Birmingham
Benedict Cumberbatch has just embarked...
Hiroshima: stifled stories and one man’s memory of a cataclysm
Hiroshima: stifled stories and one man's memory of a cataclysm
Elizabeth Chappell
, The Open University
The two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in August 1945 killed...
Giraffes aren’t dangerous – but they will soon be endangered
Matt Hayward
, Bangor University
An American trophy hunter has kicked off another social media furore after defending a recent giraffe kill in South Africa by...
Africa is within reach of being declared a polio free region
Charles Wiysonge
, Stellenbosch University
More than 20 years after North and South America eliminated the threat of polio, sub-Saharan Africa is finally on the brink...
In a water-scarce West of the future, who will be hit hardest?
Lauren Foster
, Colorado School of Mines
This article is part of The Conversation’s series on drought. You can read the rest of the series here.
Despite...
Even before Hiroshima, people knew the atomic bomb
Matt Lavine
, Mississippi State University
Milton Rothmar, an American army corporal stationed in Italy, got the news about the Hiroshima bombing from the Armed forces...
Alcohol guidelines ignore how people drink – that’s why they’re not heeded
Alcohol guidelines ignore how people drink – that's why they're not heeded
Melanie Lovatt, University of Sheffield
As part of the government’s strategy to cut the...
