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The Tulsa Race Massacre
Society, Politics & Law

The Tulsa Race Massacre

...of hearing and listening to the voices of victims and survivors, and acknowledging the harms and injustices they have suffered. Ultimately, the 100-year struggle for truth, recognition and reparations by survivors and descendants provides inspiration for people all over the world seeking redress, healing and genuine accountability for social harms and state violence....
Animal-Computer Interaction and dogs
Digital & Computing

Animal-Computer Interaction and dogs

...world around us, one another and even ourselves in unprecedented ways. Being directly or indirectly involved in every aspect of human life, animals too interact with computing technology and, in fact, have done so for a long time. For example, within conservation research, animals have been wearing all kinds of tracking devices since the 1960s. More or less in the same...
How can knowing how DNA repairs itself help defeat cancer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can knowing how DNA repairs itself help defeat cancer?

...world have unpicked the biological ‘toolkits’ our cells use to repair their damaged DNA. And it turns out that rather than being a strength, problems with DNA repair can be a critical weakness in cancer cells, leading to an exciting new approach for tackling the disease. Earlier this month we spotted two papers in the journal Nature that provide a new insight into...
Unequal journeys: exploring the contradictions of citizenship and asylum regimes
Society, Politics & Law

Unequal journeys: exploring the contradictions of citizenship and asylum regimes

...world, and increasing numbers of wealthy individuals are acquiring what are seen as ‘desirable’ citizenships in this manner. By desirable I mean citizenship and passports that are highly ranked, meaning that they enable easy, visa-free travel, or come with other benefits such as favourable tax policies and so on. AC: What inspired you to address the issue of...
Five Inspiring Black Trailblazers from across Europe
History & The Arts

Five Inspiring Black Trailblazers from across Europe

...World War II. She taught me to have optimism, dedication and tact.” But her other, Curaçaoan grandmother was also important to her: “My grandmother with Afro-Curaçaoan roots felt slavery still nearby. She experienced poverty, deprivation and brutality. She gave me physical and emotional strength, self-confidence and courage.” For a long time, the fastest woman in...
Children and happiness
Education & Development

Children and happiness

...world in general. Professor Mary Ainsworth was the first to develop a way of formally classifying the different types of relationships that exist between parents and children. Her test, called the ‘Strange Situation’, involves observing toddlers’ reactions during a series of separations and reunions with the parent. Securely attached toddlers protest when the parent...
Sense of self during ageing: how mindfulness and nature can help
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sense of self during ageing: how mindfulness and nature can help

...world than today. This means it is increasingly important that ageing well is given priority. What is ageing [A very elderly lady, full face shot showing lots of wrinkles]Ageing is a natural process that starts the moment we are born. Our basic metabolism (i.e., the rate the body uses energy to maintain vital functions such as breathing, blood circulation, digesting food,...
Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal
Education & Development

Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal

...world. A balance needs to be wrought between teaching the skills of decoding and comprehension and fostering reading for pleasure. Such reading is essentially volitional, intrinsically motivated, child-directed and choice-led. It has making meaning at its heart. In order to build reciprocal communities of readers who can and do choose to read and who think and talk about...