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Health, Sports & Psychology
Oliver Sacks: "You are in the hands of a master storyteller"
The writer Josh Bernoff hails Oliver Sacks' ability to engage readers from the start.
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Languages
Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales
The musician and poet Zachary Richard has kept the Cajun tradition alive. But how has the migration of his stories affected them? Mathilde Köstler considers three of his tales.
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History & The Arts
The music from An Introduction to Music Research
If you're studying the free course An Introduction to Music Research, this is the audio for section one.
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History & The Arts
A hard day at the Met Office: The BBC look for a change in the weather
After nearly a century, the BBC has announced it's looking for a new weather partner. That's bad news for the Met Office.
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History & The Arts
Canals: The Making of a Nation - Find out more
Find out more about how the history of canals shaped a nation's financial system, workers' rights and civil engineering.
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History & The Arts
Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
The growing embrace of big data makes identity an increasingly contentious space. Researchers Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle's work explores where the new digital world might take us.
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History & The Arts
Who is in the wrong in the Ashley Madison hack?
Hackers have exposed the details of millions of users of a site designed to help married people cheat. Nobody comes out of the story looking particularly good - but who is more sinned against than sinning?
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History & The Arts
Virtual murder: Just a game?
Can playing violent video games be perceived as a bad thing even if the game player does not show aggressive behaviour in reality?
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History & The Arts
Learning about sex, a shilling a time: Aristotle's Masterpiece
Not written by that Aristotle, the Masterpiece nevertheless found a huge market desperate for sex education in 18th Century Britain and America.
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History & The Arts
Do tax breaks work well for promoting creative industries?
Today, the EU has announced approval for an extension of tax breaks for the British film industry. But is this form of indirect subsidy the best way to help stimulate creative industries? Animation expert Charles Kenny has looked at schemes around the world, and wonders if we'd not all be better off with something more directly supportive.
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History & The Arts
Did Waterloo prevent a fresh Anglo-American war?
Believing Bonaparte to be resurgent in France, some Americans pushed President Madison to reignite the recently quelled hostilities of the 1812 War. Waterloo defeated these hopes as soundly as it defeated Napoleon's - at least in the view of the British as captured by The Morning Post.
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Science, Maths & Technology
Building the first Thames sewer system
The original Thames sewer system became a pressing need following the clean-up of London streets. But even the stench of the river overpowering the Houses of Parliament couldn't persuade the Board of Works to speed up the building process. This editorial from The Morning Chronicle of 20th July, 1859 explores why the fight against cholera had ...