3,121 search results
Let your money do the talking: fossil fuel divestment and COP26
Nature & Environment

Let your money do the talking: fossil fuel divestment and COP26

...work; in higher education, many universities are setting goals consistent with COP26’s aims and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, often spurred on by student pressure. More than half of UK universities have already committed to divest or have already divested (over £15 billion) and many have reinvested a significant ­­­­proportion of these funds in...
View article Let your money do the talking: fossil fuel divestment and COP26
Article 10 mins
What sort of Victoria Sponge would Queen Victoria have eaten?
History & The Arts

What sort of Victoria Sponge would Queen Victoria have eaten?

...work of food historians, you can recreate Victoria's Victoria sponge...Mrs Beeton would have been a disaster on Great British Bake Off. In her first published recipe – “A Good Sponge Cake” – the famed Victorian domestic goddess forgot to explain how much flour was required. Hardly a trifling oversight – but nothing that would have troubled Bake Off finalists,...
View article What sort of Victoria Sponge would Queen Victoria have eaten?
Article 5 mins
Horror and politics
History & The Arts

Horror and politics

...works in which the institution of marriage was assailed and love promoted as a partnership of equals. For Shelley, the ideas in these books were a design for living. By the end of the twentieth century, of course, ideas of free love were not nearly as politically subversive as they were in the 1810s. But in Gothic, Russell nevertheless exploits this element of the story...
View article Horror and politics
Article 5 mins
The selective breeding of dogs
Science, Maths & Technology

The selective breeding of dogs

...work? Why are poodles and German Shepherds different? What about designer dogs? This science article explores...Find out more about The Open University's Biology qualification. [Small puppy laying in the grass in a park] When an interesting or useful trait is identified in a dog, owners would breed from that dog in the hope of the trait being passed on. Over many rounds...
View article The selective breeding of dogs
Article 5 mins
Integrated education in Northern Ireland - or divide and sectarianism?
Society, Politics & Law

Integrated education in Northern Ireland - or divide and sectarianism?

...work against integration in Northern Ireland hurt deeply. But as the DUP and most parties in the Assembly have embraced the language of a shared future, and see the economic benefits of reduced duplication involved with parallel education sectors, as the largest provider the Catholic hierarchy can be seen as vulnerable to the old accusations that by persisting with their...
View article Integrated education in Northern Ireland - or divide and sectarianism?
Article 15 mins
Universities, empires and refugees
Society, Politics & Law

Universities, empires and refugees

...work. But there is also the question of what we do in the here and now: what do they teach, and who is it taught to? What is taught? The content of teaching at universities often reinforces power imbalances and the legacy of colonialism. Take my own discipline of International Relations as an example. Its focus on international interactions tends to mean that it focuses...
View article Universities, empires and refugees
Article 5 mins
Are NHS-recommended mental health apps actually doing any good?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are NHS-recommended mental health apps actually doing any good?

...work commitments. No hard evidence The reality is that there is a large gap between the theoretical benefits of mental health apps and what they are likely to deliver in practice. Of the 27 mental health apps endorsed and recommended through the NHS health apps library, 14 are designed to treat or manage the symptoms of depression and anxiety. They are frequently...
View article Are NHS-recommended mental health apps actually doing any good?
Article 5 mins
How India reacted to Sundar Pichai's new role at Google - and what will he do?
Science, Maths & Technology

How India reacted to Sundar Pichai's new role at Google - and what will he do?

...works the same way as long you have access to a computer with connectivity, even if you were a rural kid anywhere or if you were a professor at Stanford or Harvard [..] When asked about the different “divisions within Google that are doing crazy stuff”, Pichai responds: We do them, because we believe that software is increasingly playing a critical role in solving...
View article How India reacted to Sundar Pichai's new role at Google - and what will he do?
Article 5 mins