Tag: l&n
Life boils down to five ‘rules’ … or so says the...
By James Smith
It may sound overly simple, but just five processes can define us as animals: eating, metabolism, reproduction, dispersal and death.
They might not...
Does the age of online education herald the death of academics?
By Chris Hackley, Royal Holloway
In the mid-1980s as a further education lecturer I was mocked by some more traditional colleagues for using “lantern slides”,...
New Tesco CEO might enjoy the benefits of a dramatic debut
By Andre Spicer, City University London
“Never let a good crisis go to waste.” The well-known words of Winston Churchill are probably on the mind...
Crafting for good: why we all want to knit for penguins
By Alyce McGovern
Last week, a call for knitters to create tiny pullovers for oil-spill affected penguins went viral. Patterns for penguin knitwear from The...
Will there be enough fish to go around? Not if we...
By Ruth H. Thurstan, The University of Queensland and Callum Roberts, University of York
Globally, we still catch enough fish to eat – just about....
It’s not fair! How the human equality condition can hold some...
By John McGowan, Canterbury Christ Church University
When you have more than one child, the importance of fairness seems to trump all other considerations, including...
Hard Evidence: what do primary school children need to eat?
By Melanie Wakeman, Birmingham City University
We should be concerned about our children’s diets. In 2011, nearly 10% of four to five-year-olds in the UK...
126,000 reasons why the Emma Watson hoax isn’t all bad news
By Evita March, Federation University Australia
In less than a week since actor Emma Watson’s stirring United Nations speech on gender inequality, two big things...
EXPLORING NATURE
Children can be systematic problem-solvers at younger ages than psychologists had...
Celeste Kidd, University of California, Berkeley
I’m in a coffee shop when a young child dumps out his mother’s...
