2,652 search results
How can the Hajj be made safer?
History & The Arts

How can the Hajj be made safer?

...world every year and involves several complex rituals, which means it is always a potentially dangerous event. In recent years, great lengths have been taken to ensure the safety of pilgrims, with, according to Saudi government sources, more than £200bn spent since 1992 on redesigning the infrastructure of the Hajj, which involves events at several sites in and around...
View article How can the Hajj be made safer?
Article 5 mins
Urbanism in Blade Runner
Science, Maths & Technology

Urbanism in Blade Runner

...world of Blade Runner On the surface, Blade Runner’s appeal to the science fiction community is not hard to see. Understanding its relevance to the urban planning community, however, takes a more nuanced approach. We’re not the first ones to note Blade Runner’s bold urbanist vision. Urban critics as well as the mainstream media have commented on the role of urban...
View article Urbanism in Blade Runner
Article 5 mins
What happened to Rio 2016's leftover food?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happened to Rio 2016's leftover food?

...world is never eaten because it is spoiled after harvest and during transportation, or thrown away by shops and consumers. Yet almost 800 million people worldwide go to bed hungry every night, according to UN figures. “Events such as the Olympics are especially big in creating waste because you’re feeding so many people that it's really hard to calculate exactly what...
View article What happened to Rio 2016's leftover food?
Article 5 mins
Do people really behave in a rational way?
Money & Business

Do people really behave in a rational way?

...world use this view of human behaviour as the basis for weighing the benefits and costs of decisions affecting trillions of pounds every year. Psychologists are also interested in people’s choices, particularly the effect of emotions. Much of this complements economists' standard view of us. Take emotions related to the object of choice, for instance. If I choose to...
View article Do people really behave in a rational way?
Article 5 mins
App zeros in on loss of equatorial glaciers
Nature & Environment

App zeros in on loss of equatorial glaciers

...world’s equatorial mountains in 25 years...[glacier on Carstensz Pyramid − the highest mountain in Indonesia] Girdling the Earth are 25 mountains whose peaks stand out a brilliant white against the dark rock. But in 25 years from now, an Australian scientist says, the snow on these equatorial summits will have vanished – because climate change will have raised the...
View article App zeros in on loss of equatorial glaciers
Article 10 mins
British public open to compromise on Brexit deal, new research finds
Society, Politics & Law

British public open to compromise on Brexit deal, new research finds

...World Trade Organisation terms. All of which suggests that the public are more conducive to compromise than some may have assumed. They recognise it is not possible to have everything they want – and are willing to make concessions. As the second round of Brexit negotiations begin on July 17, it remains to be seen whether the government will enter the discussions with a...
View article British public open to compromise on Brexit deal, new research finds
Article 5 mins
How are tiny air pollutants causing massive storms in the Amazon?
Nature & Environment

How are tiny air pollutants causing massive storms in the Amazon?

...by the pollution of Manaus”. The study is part of by GoAmazon, a project that brings together 100 researchers from Brazil, United States and Germany. The next step for the researchers is to verify the consequences of this dynamic for other Brazilian regions and for other parts of the world. This article was originally published by SciDevNet under a CC-BY licence...
View article How are tiny air pollutants causing massive storms in the Amazon?
Article 5 mins
How did a natural disaster take us closer to Brexit?
Languages

How did a natural disaster take us closer to Brexit?

...world. But these nationalist discourses did not come out of nowhere in 2016 nor were they solely emanating from the sphere of politics. In a recently published paper, “‘The BP is a great British company’: The discursive transformation of an environmental disaster into a national economic problem”, I examine the relationship between discourses of corporate...
View article How did a natural disaster take us closer to Brexit?
Article 5 mins