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”,...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Britain’s love affair with cheap food could be coming to an...
By Tim Lang, City University London and Victoria Schoen, City University London
Political wrangling over food prices has a long history, and a difficult future....
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...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
