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Rod Stewart was a 1970s ally
History & The Arts

Rod Stewart was a 1970s ally

...research 19th-century British literature for a living. But I have also spent time listening to and thinking about rock ‘n’ roll lyrics. Language is at the crux of both these projects, and it is a short step from one to the other. Great poems, like great lyrics, work in strikingly diverse ways. But at some level both almost invariably challenge set assumptions and...
The civil engineer's fear of the penalty shoot-out: Predicting the World Cup
Science, Maths & Technology

The civil engineer's fear of the penalty shoot-out: Predicting the World Cup

...research has shown that it is often vital to making decisions. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman and psychologist Gary Klein suggest that intuitive expertise can only develop in environments in which there are stable relationships between identifiable cues and events. Cues in football could be relative team rankings and events could be wins or losses. Cues in civil...
Remedying the impact of school closures: be kind, thank a teacher
Education & Development

Remedying the impact of school closures: be kind, thank a teacher

...Research from the Sutton Trust reports that by the start of April 2020, 34% of children from middle-class homes had accessed synchronous or asynchronous learning opportunities, compared with just 16% of working class pupils. The Children’s Commissioner for England rightly highlights concerns around the widening of this disadvantage gap, most often noticed during the...
Club, Country, Continent: Juggling fan identities at Euro 2020
Health, Sports & Psychology

Club, Country, Continent: Juggling fan identities at Euro 2020

...research provide examples of dual identities: Flag — St Georges cross with Sunderland badge. Clothes — I have a polo shirt with both Sunderland and England badges on it. I have a ten-by-five-foot St George cross with ‘COLCHESTER UNITED’ across the middle that I take to games. St Georges Cross Flag showing Foxham — where I live — and Swindon Town — my team....
Explainer: how hostile is space?
Science, Maths & Technology

Explainer: how hostile is space?

...Researcher in Electronic Imaging at The Open University, explains more...Space may seem calm, but it is a more hostile environment than that on Earth. Invisible radiation is a big problem for space enthusiasts and scientific instruments. Substituting electronic devices to do human tasks reduces risk, but it doesn’t eliminate all risk. Every active device in space is...
Highs and lows and highs again: How football has changed in the past 50 years
Health, Sports & Psychology

Highs and lows and highs again: How football has changed in the past 50 years

...research and study. [Wembledy stadium modern football] References 1. Long, S. (2016), ‘Manchester United’s legendary squad earned less than one quarter of Wayne Rooney’s annual salary’, The Evening Standard [online]. Accessed 11th March 2019. Available at:
The future of emojis
Languages

The future of emojis

...research at Emojipedia, emojis have never been more popular on social media than they are today, even though certain emojis appear to have passed the peak of their popularity (😂 Face with Tears of Joy, specifically). PS: Yes, it’s worth thinking of emojis as specifically being a form of writing. They’re digital writing, but with antecedents in handwriting and...
Iron from the sky: Meteors, meteorites and ancient culture
Science, Maths & Technology

Iron from the sky: Meteors, meteorites and ancient culture

...Research Associate in the Faculty of Science, explains more about ‘iron from the sky’...[Stone statue of the Pharaohs in Giza ] The relationship between meteorites and ancient Egyptian culture may not be immediately obvious, but for many years, Egyptologists speculated on the use of meteorites as an ancient source of iron. No Egyptian archaeological evidence exists of...