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What is COVID-19?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is COVID-19?

...out in animals, but not before being transmitted to humans. The evolutionary history of the pathogen seems to take a back seat in the news coverage, for obvious reasons, but it is important. Zoonoses, or infections which originate in animals and are passed to humans, often cause more severe disease in humans because we have not developed an optimal immune response. How...
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Have we got Wonga wrong? A defence of payday loans
Money & Business

Have we got Wonga wrong? A defence of payday loans

...out a loan for £300 you would pay back about £458 over three months. We are expensive but it’s very, very short-term. It could be a lot more if you went into your overdraft in an unauthorised way. It is difficult to argue with this logic. An unauthorised overdraft, with Santander for example, can cost anything up to £95-a-month in fees. Choosing a payday loan in...
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Why the size of your plate might be making you overweight
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why the size of your plate might be making you overweight

...out by the University of Cambridge and published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, suggests that eliminating larger-sized portions from the diet completely could reduce energy intake by up to 16% among UK adults or 29% among US adults. [Woman drinking from a double-sized cup] The Double-Sized Big Gulp cup was a marketing gimmick - but could large-sized cups,...
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Were most women overlooked from the Ascent of Woman?
Society, Politics & Law

Were most women overlooked from the Ascent of Woman?

...out to restore women missing from the official histories. In a personal view on the series, Leeds University's Jessica Meyer asks if the series left too many tales untold...In A Room of One’s Own (1929), Virginia Woolf imagined that Shakespeare had a sister, a gifted young woman named Judith. Like her brother, she runs away to London to become an actress. Here, unlike...
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Migration goes both ways: How Brits changed the world
History & The Arts

Migration goes both ways: How Brits changed the world

...out differences between migrants from middle class and working class backgrounds. While middle class migrants were often active in these kinds of groups – pursuing philanthropy because they believed in giving back – working class migrants were often unable to cover the required membership fees. What they were looking for was a way to help themselves. As a result,...
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A letter that starts the renegotiation process – Cameron writing to Tusk
Society, Politics & Law

A letter that starts the renegotiation process – Cameron writing to Tusk

...out weaknesses of the Eurozone, free movement affecting the UK labour market and a lack of transparency and democracy. Following this particular speech and others in the run up to the general election, the EU expected some details as to what changes it is that the UK wants to see implemented once Cameron was re-established as Prime Minister. Just like any party wanting to...
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How can statistics bring dead languages back to life?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can statistics bring dead languages back to life?

...out 6,000 to 3,500 BC on the steppes to the north of the Caspian Sea. They left no written texts and although historical linguists have, since the 19th century, painstakingly reconstructed the language from daughter languages, the question of how it actually sounded was assumed to be permanently out of reach. Now, researchers at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford...
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‘Super-human’ athletes are at risk from the post-Olympic blues – here’s why
Health, Sports & Psychology

‘Super-human’ athletes are at risk from the post-Olympic blues – here’s why

...out about their struggles. Even so, the stories of depression following previous Olympics serve as a warning to those leaving Rio; Amanda Beard, Ian Thorpe, Allison Schmidt and McKayla Maroney have all disclosed their experiences of depression. Cassie Patten, bronze medallist in the ten kilometre open water swim at the Beijing 2008 games said: In the year after the games,...
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