Mental health and terrorism: more people flagged to authorities have ‘mixed, unstable, unclear’ views than Islamist ideologies Barry Richards, Bournemouth University It is often difficult to make sense of violence, particularly in the wake of a terrorist attack. So it’s perhaps … Continue reading Mental Health and Terrorism
Jaclyn Neel, Carleton University When writer Caitlin Flanagan announced the opening of the University of Austin — a proposed private liberal arts college that is “anti-cancel culture” and welcomes academics treated like “thought criminals” — in November, she made a … Continue reading Cicero isn’t a model for saving the state, but a symbol of what destroyed it
Maha Rafi Atal, University of Glasgow and Lisa Ann Richey, Copenhagen Business School At the start of the pandemic, consumers were bombarded with a new and hastily constructed form of advertising. In those “uncertain times”, customers were promised, they could … Continue reading Advertising in the pandemic: how companies used COVID as a marketing tool
Valerio Faraoni, Bishop’s University It took Albert Einstein 10 years to find the equations of general relativity, but German astrophysicist Karl Schwarzschild only needed a few months to solve them. Schwarzschild’s solution describes the gravity of an isolated, spherical and … Continue reading Our understanding of black holes has changed over time
Kai Hou (Gordon) Yip, UCL and Quentin Changeat, UCL Do you know what the Earth’s atmosphere is made of? You’d probably remember it’s oxygen, and maybe nitrogen. And with a little help from Google you can easily reach a more … Continue reading AI can reliably spot molecules on exoplanets – and might one day even discover new laws of physics
Matthew Robert Bennett, Bournemouth University and Sally Christine Reynolds, Bournemouth University A collection of fossil footprints at Laetoli in Northern Tanzania, preserved in volcanic ash and dated to 3.66 million years ago, are still yielding surprises almost 45 years after … Continue reading A new species of early human? Why we should be cautious about new fossil footprint findings
Kambaiz Rafi, UCL and Scott Lucas, University of Birmingham In late August 2021, the US completed its withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, ending a 20-year occupation. The Taliban retook the country with shocking speed. The Islamic fundamentalist political group was … Continue reading What’s next for Afghanistan? Two experts make predictions
Sippi Azarbaijani Moghaddam, University of St Andrews It was April 1995, and I was preparing to travel to Afghanistan for my first volunteer post with a UK charity. I had travelled to London to meet the Afghanistan director for the … Continue reading What my 20 years in Afghanistan taught me about the Taliban – and how the west consistently underestimates them
Sun Wu was born in 544 BC, known via the honorific name, Sun Tzu, which means “master.” Sun Tzu was a Chinese general, military strategist, and author of The Art of War. This became this planet’s earliest and most famous … Continue reading ‘Know Your Enemy’ – Sun Tzu Quotes
If you have different masks you have come across let me know, I will post it on this post!!! Continue reading Omicron / Covid Masks Some People Wear!
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