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Representations of hell in Christian art
History & The Arts

Representations of hell in Christian art

...will appear in a two-volume publication by Cambridge University Press: Hell in the Byzantine World: A History of Art and Religion in Venetian Crete and the Eastern Mediterranean (general editor: Angeliki Lymberopoulou, expected date of publication 2020). This volume will be accompanied by a password protected, open access (i.e. free of charge) database. Watch this space!...
Business Bursts: Failure
Health, Sports & Psychology

Business Bursts: Failure

...public debts, rising public deficits and governments have limited room for manoeuvre for boosting the economy. In particular, they're limited in their room for manoeuvre for creating opportunities out of, or new phoenixes out of the ashes of the recession. Now that brings us to a famous economist called Joseph Schumpeter who turned the phrase creative destruction, that...
The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK
History & The Arts

The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK

...public meetings, chaining herself to railings and smashing windows, ready to go to prison in the name of her cause (Figure 3). These things certainly happened, but they don’t tell the whole story of the struggle, which lasted for decades and drew support from people from all classes and regions. [This is a black and white photograph of a woman in early twentieth-century...
Percy Shelley: Polemicist
History & The Arts

Percy Shelley: Polemicist

...public view of a major work by a near contemporary of both these artists on November 10 2015—the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley—was met with an air of such disinterest (The Guardian newspaper excepted). [Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley] There were brief mentions and some excerpts were read out on BBC Radio 4, but no welcoming comments appeared from...
US Election 2016: A last week reading list
Society, Politics & Law

US Election 2016: A last week reading list

...public opinion is too biased, the political system is too complicated, power is too decentralized, and interests are too diverse for one person, no matter how extraordinary, to dominate. Neither the public nor Congress is likely to respond to the White House’s efforts at persuasion. Presidents cannot create opportunities for change. There is overwhelming evidence that...
Ageing well by connecting and learning about nature outdoors
Science, Maths & Technology

Ageing well by connecting and learning about nature outdoors

...public in nature-based citizen science projects. Nature-based citizen science is an activity in which people collect high-quality data for scientific use and environmental monitoring. Here Pocock and team tested people’s exposure to nature with both observation as well as citizen science, and confirmed that active engagement with the natural world positively affects...
Clinton / Trump: Two views of the first debate
Society, Politics & Law

Clinton / Trump: Two views of the first debate

...public spotlight, as unqualified, unprepared and unfit for office. The only question is whether the American people will be responsible enough to act on that knowledge. Why the pundits are wrong about Hillary Clinton dominating the debate Gleb Tsipursky writes: The vast majority of pundits declared Hillary Clinton the decisive winner of this week’s debate. This includes...
Goal-setting for a better world: Millennium Development Goals and Post-2015 Development Agenda
Society, Politics & Law

Goal-setting for a better world: Millennium Development Goals and Post-2015 Development Agenda

...health e.g. non-communicable diseases and mental health; lack of integration/synergy of goals with other development activities e.g. on education, health and gender. In all, for the post 2015 agenda emphasis is made on the need for goal setting on national governance and institutional levels, where responsibilities are to be defined, accountability systems put in place,...