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The science behind your Christmas dinner
Science, Maths & Technology

The science behind your Christmas dinner

...humans) to eat their roots. The concentrations of harmful compounds in this location is lower but eating it would still make us feel ill. Lucky for us, when the potato is cooked at high temperatures (over 170 °C) glycoalkaloids get destroyed, making it safe (and delicious) to eat. Just one more Christmas biscuit [Christmas biscuit ] Gingerbread, Christmas pudding, Yule...
Putting algae and seaweed on the menu could help save our seafood
Science, Maths & Technology

Putting algae and seaweed on the menu could help save our seafood

...human food source. Farming these organisms in the right way could even help counter some of the effects of climate change on the rest of the food chain. For example, growing more seaweed lowers the amount of CO2 in the surrounding water, reduces acidification, and improves the environment for oysters and other shellfish. Managing seaweed harvest correctly will also...
Tackling juror trauma and stress
Society, Politics & Law

Tackling juror trauma and stress

...human skeletal remains. This additional haptic processing of traumatic evidence provides a more personal, intimate, and potentially traumatic engagement with victims as jurors can directly touch victim injuries. Prior trauma amongst individual jurors may be raked to the surface as they are forced to confront triggering content in court, adding an extra layer of trauma to...
COVID Chronicles from the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

COVID Chronicles from the Margins

...human voice which sounds like music, and the written text. As we travel through the streets, we are struck by a sense of absence – the absence of people, crowds the hustle and bustle of city life but also the visibility of the new street royalty. The homeless have become the princes and princesses of the street, owning them alongside stray cats and dogs. EXPLORE...
Magical Modernity in a Muggle World? Witchcraft, Spirituality and Everyday Enchantment
Health, Sports & Psychology

Magical Modernity in a Muggle World? Witchcraft, Spirituality and Everyday Enchantment

...human spirit lives on and can be communicated with through trained mediums - grew by 21%. Druids and Wiccans nearly doubled in number over the same period, and many of those will be just as conversant with the healing powers of plants as Professor Sprout and her students of Herbology. The magic, however, stretches far beyond the census statistics to have wider economic,...
Left behind?
Society, Politics & Law

Left behind?

...human characteristic. Did you know women are more likely to be born right-handed than men (about 4 per cent)? Or that over one in ten of the world's population is left-handed (one per cent are ambidextrous)? Left-handers remain trapped in a right-handed world. The disadvantages are so acute that in 1996 someone decided we needed to have a day for left-handedness. It is...
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Saudi Arabia is paying a heavy price for Iran’s global rehabilitation
Society, Politics & Law

Saudi Arabia is paying a heavy price for Iran’s global rehabilitation

...Human Rights Council, Saudi Arabia more and more finds itself in the headlines for all the wrong reasons – the beheading and crucifixion sentence handed out to al-Nimr’s nephew Ali Mohammed al-Nimr in 2015, the withdrawal of a £5.9m prisons contract between the UK Government and the Saudi regime, the rising civilian death toll in its campaign against the Houthis in...
Why I'd say yes, yes, yes to the Bad Sex award
History & The Arts

Why I'd say yes, yes, yes to the Bad Sex award

...human population since we emerged from the primordial swamp, it’s more than half a century since Philip Larkin noted its arrival on the cultural scene in his poem Annus Mirabilis. Until then it was, Larkin writes: A shame that started at sixteen And spread to everything. For thousands of years, sex had lurked behind curtains and in the sub-text of innuendos. Suddenly,...