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The Problem with Pink
History & The Arts

The Problem with Pink

...centred on youth, beauty, sexuality and motherhood. Pink may seem gentle, sweet and pretty, but these appealing qualities all too readily flip over into passivity, frivolity and artificiality. For me, as an art historian specialising in eighteenth-century French art, the debate around pink is of interest because no period in the history of art is more associated with the...
Foreign interference?
Digital & Computing

Foreign interference?

...Centre. This is the latest in a series of alerts about an ongoing Russian campaign known in the West as Grizzly Steppe. The statement confirms that hackers, believed to be working directly or indirectly for the Russian government have been attempting to compromise the security of internet devices known as routers and switches. A huge number of routers and switches are...
Why do American parties hold conventions?
Society, Politics & Law

Why do American parties hold conventions?

...children, husband and parents – a powerful tactic to quickly make herself seem familiar and sympathetic, a humble Alaska “hockey mom” with a son fighting in Iraq. But the speech is best known for one of those memorable soundbites that find a permanent place in the political lexicon. There is but one difference, said Palin, between a hockey mom and a pit bull:...
Honour thy vulnerable witnesses
Health, Sports & Psychology

Honour thy vulnerable witnesses

...research has revealed the risks of relying on such testimony and how careful the police must be when questioning witnesses. [A man face's with facial recognition.] Why should that matter to people? Members of the public could get involved in police investigation procedures either as suspects or witnesses who have experienced an event and might be able to relay information...
Hacking under your skin?
Digital & Computing

Hacking under your skin?

...research team have discovered a way to hack into medical implants...[Surgery in a hospital] Well this one sounds like something from a science-fiction movie. A research team in Belgium has worked out how to hack into the communications used by an implanted medical device – that is a piece of technology permanently placed inside a living person. In this case, the device...
The psychological benefits of multilingualism
Languages

The psychological benefits of multilingualism

...research indicates that a high level of multilingualism and multiculturalism makes people more tolerant of ambiguity (Dewaele and Wei 2013). Language learning is fraught with ambiguity, particularly in situations where real communication needs to take place, and language learners who are not able to tolerate this kind of ambiguity can find it very challenging to cope,...
If a pig gives you a new liver, do you give the pig rights?
History & The Arts

If a pig gives you a new liver, do you give the pig rights?

...research, such as the study of developmental processes and diseases of many kinds. We are, at minimum, several steps and several years away from being able to create fully grown human-animal chimeras. But worries over the ethics of chimera research have been with us since the beginning of the 21st century. Ethicists have begun to map the space of difficult moral questions...
Could your brain activity be used in evidence against you?
Society, Politics & Law

Could your brain activity be used in evidence against you?

...researchers in the US has noted that the accuracy of such “mind reading” technology is improving. There are various methods of detecting false statements or concealed knowledge, which vary greatly. For example, traditional “lie detection” relies on measuring physiological reactions such as heart rate, blood pressure, pupil dilation and skin sweat response to...