2,492 search results
What danger do asteroids pose to life on earth?
Science, Maths & Technology

What danger do asteroids pose to life on earth?

...by larger asteroids. So there is no need (yet) to start stockpiling baked beans and bottled water against our imminent demise by asteroid attack. The 50,000 tonnes of space material that hits Earth each year falls mainly as dust grains less than half a millimetre across. And given that we are all still here (at the time of writing…), it poses no threat to humanity....
View article What danger do asteroids pose to life on earth?
Article 5 mins
One Lump or Two? Understanding the Place of Sugar - Part One
Society, Politics & Law

One Lump or Two? Understanding the Place of Sugar - Part One

...Goldstein's huge book, The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets (2015). Current students may want to look at DTS206's block on food, affluent diets and their effects on the environment. Steve Pile is Professor of Human Geography. He is currently writing about electricity for the new Environment and Society module, D213, which you will be able to study from 2018 onwards....
View article One Lump or Two? Understanding the Place of Sugar - Part One
Article 5 mins
Read this before you fall for a personalised book
History & The Arts

Read this before you fall for a personalised book

...humanity is replaced by a false narrative of ‘I am the best!’. The most powerful children’s books are those that hit the sweet spot of personalisation and pluralisation. Such books teach children out-group empathy that occurs with story characters whose experiences are radically different from their own. Children build resilience and capacity for collaboration with...
View article Read this before you fall for a personalised book
Article 15 mins
Clean Brexit, Dirty Brexit: Is this the last exit before armageddon?
Nature & Environment

Clean Brexit, Dirty Brexit: Is this the last exit before armageddon?

...Humans can be adversely affected by exposure to air pollutants in ambient air. In response, the European Union has developed an extensive body of legislation which establishes health based standards and objectives for a number of pollutants in the air.” The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs states: “Action to manage and improve air quality control is...
View article Clean Brexit, Dirty Brexit: Is this the last exit before armageddon?
Article 5 mins
How juror bias can be tackled to ensure fairer trials
Society, Politics & Law

How juror bias can be tackled to ensure fairer trials

...human fallibility, and the prejudices and biases that can have an impact on a verdict. Films such as 1957’s Twelve Angry Men – where one man systematically dismantles the biases and assumptions of his fellow jurors – dramatically introduced this idea to popular culture. Decision scientists (like myself), legal scholars and forensic psychologists investigate juror...
View article How juror bias can be tackled to ensure fairer trials
Article 5 mins
What is The Social Contract?
History & The Arts

What is The Social Contract?

...human beings. They asked how these individuals could put themselves under an authority. The answer – by agreeing amongst each other to do so. This answer meant that the limits of governmental power were set by the original agreement. In Hobbes’ case, these limits were virtually non-existent: he thought that we would contract together to hand over nearly all our rights...
View article What is The Social Contract?
Article 5 mins
The Great Resignation: temporary blip or more enduring labour market trend?
Money & Business

The Great Resignation: temporary blip or more enduring labour market trend?

...human health and social work’ (n.p.). [An employee by his desk, holding a half-filled packing box.] As such, what we can perhaps conclude is that the Great Resignation is still in play, but that this isn’t about people leaving the workforce entirely. Instead it is much more to do with labour market churn and job rotation in that UK employees have come to realise they...
View article The Great Resignation: temporary blip or more enduring labour market trend?
Article 5 mins
Why are the bullied reluctant to seek help?
Education & Development

Why are the bullied reluctant to seek help?

...are often far from easy to resolve. They may have their roots in the darker side of human nature and frustrations experienced in the home and in the wider community. [The Conversation]What teachers can do will always be limited – but can be far less limited than is the case at present. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
View article Why are the bullied reluctant to seek help?
Article 5 mins