Health, Sports & Psychology
One minute methods - meta analysis
Discover how meta-analyses can help researchers see the bigger picture that no one study alone can show...Transcript.
Health, Sports & Psychology
The Colour of Success: Can uniform colour impact on team success?
...Research by Hill and Barton (2005) investigated the link between uniform colour and match outcome in a number of different combat sports (boxing, tae kwon do, Greco-Roman wrestling and freestyle wrestling) at the 2004 Olympics, where competitors were randomly assigned either a blue or red uniform. Interestingly their findings revealed that that for all sports there was a...
Society, Politics & Law
People make terrible eyewitnesses – but it turns out there’s an exception
...research, it might enable judges and juries to differentiate eyewitnesses who are likely to be right from the rest of us. The eyewitness problem It’s not possible to put a number on how unreliable eyewitnesses are, but they certainly get things wrong. Unreliable testimonies have been cited as the biggest contributor to miscarriages of justice, causing three-quarters of...
Society, Politics & Law
Uncanny valley: why we find human-like robots and dolls so creepy
...Research started in earnest from 2005, when Karl MacDorman and Takashi Minato translated Mori’s original paper into English. Interest in the area has since expanded quickly: so far, 510 academic papers reference the effect in 2015, compared to just 35 in 2004. Although the effect is easy to describe, and feels intuitively “right” when looking at some examples of...
History & The Arts
The Italian Patient: Health care in Renaissance Italy
...research by John Henderson overturns this view. He reveals what it was like to be an 'Italian Patient' and shows that there are remarkable similarities to health care provisions today. Katherine Park has shown that at the same time the practice of autopsy was in full swing with the sanction of the Church. In the late medieval period hospitals were built in Florence as...
Science, Maths & Technology
Stephen Hawking in his own words
In this tribute created by the University of Cambridge, Stephen Hawking reflects on "a glorious time to be alive doing research"...Transcript [Stephen Hawking painting in Miami]
Society, Politics & Law
Goal-setting for a better world: Millennium Development Goals and Post-2015 Development Agenda
...research collaboration from London International Development Centre (entitled Thinking beyond sectors for sustainable Development) contributes to this effort critiquing what progress has been made so far on the MDGs and introducing current debates to help set the post 2015 agenda. Some of the points raised are: on the limitations of focus of previous goals e.g. deciding...
Languages
Which Poverty and Place: Why how we label different areas matters
...researchers at Kings College London, suggests that a large proportion of the population (61%) see geographical inequality as the most serious form of inequality in the UK, even more than the gap between rich and poor (60%) and racial discrimination (45%). The notion that different levels of deprivation between areas can impact on people’s life chances is well supported...