I look at nude bodies all the time in my work. Art history is full of them – painted, sculpted and photographed – and they fill the walls of galleries and museums. I stand before them, projected on...
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What Is COP26? Here’s How Global Climate Negotiations Work And...
Over two weeks in November, world leaders and national negotiators will meet in Scotland to discuss what to do about climate change. It’s a complex process that can be hard to make sense of from the...
Would We Still See Ourselves As ‘Human’ If Other Hominin Species...
In our mythologies, there’s often a singular moment when we became “human”. Eve plucked the fruit of the tree of knowledge and gained awareness of good and evil. Prometheus created men from clay and...
Minerals, Drugs And China: How The Taliban Might Finance Their...
Now that the Taliban have reportedly taken full control of Afghanistan and begun forming a government, a looming challenge awaits: How will they keep their country and economy afloat financially? For...
COVID Variants: We Spoke To The Experts Designing A Single...
SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, has turned the world upside down. Experts have predicted that it will claim the lives of between 9-18 million worldwide. This is in addition to...
9/11 Did Not Change The World – It Was Already On The Path To...
The September 11 attacks in New York and Washington were visceral in their impact. In less than three hours, the twin towers of the World Trade Center were reduced to a mountain of twisted metal and...
Calculating The Costs Of The Afghanistan War In Lives, Dollars...
The U.S. invaded Afghanistan in late 2001 to destroy al-Qaida, remove the Taliban from power and remake the nation. On Aug. 30, 2021, the U.S. completed a pullout of troops from Afghanistan...
A Bitter Culture War In The Fourth Century Shows We May Not Be...
A large crowd gathers, seething with anger over the ignorant and harmful ideas of their opponents. They want to stamp out the power of the old regime for the good of the world. The group comes upon a...
South Africa’s Way Forward: Abandon Old Ideas, Embrace Bold...
In the preface to his great book, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, written in the 1930s at the height of the Great Depression, the renowned economist John Maynard Keynes...
This Is The Most Sobering Report Card Yet On Climate Change And...
Earth has warmed 1.09℃ since pre-industrial times and many changes such as sea-level rise and glacier melt are now virtually irreversible, according to the most sobering report yet by the...
Putting An End To Billions In Fishing Subsidies Could Improve...
Global fish catches are fluctuating near the highest levels ever reported, while the fraction of fish stocks that are sustainable has never been lower. Nevertheless, governments spent US$22 billion...
Dinosaurs Were Already In Decline Before The Asteroid Wiped Them...
Some 66 million years ago, on the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico, a 12 kilometre-wide asteroid crashes to Earth. The impact causes an explosion whose magnitude is hard to imagine today – several billion...
20% of UK Political Donations Come From Just Ten Men
Just ten men have made a fifth of all major political donations from individuals in the UK in the past two decades, openDemocracy can reveal. These men have given a staggering £106m to political...
Asset Strippers Are Preparing To Feast On Britain’s COVID...
Armed with record piles of cash, private equity firms are scouring the globe for companies that are ripe for asset stripping. British companies, such as Morrisons, are top of their list For much of...
Monks Wood Wilderness: 60 Years Ago, Scientists Let A Farm Field...
In the archive of the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, there is a typed note from the 1960s that planted the seed of an idea. Written by Kenneth Mellanby, director of the Monks Wood...
Homo Longi: Extinct Human Species That May Replace Neanderthals...
In 1933 a mysterious fossil skull was discovered near Harbin City in the Heilongjiang province of north-eastern China. Despite being nearly perfectly preserved – with square eye sockets, thick brow...
Can’t Face Running? Have A Hot Bath Or A Sauna – Research Shows...
I study the effects of exercise on the body. So it’s perhaps unsurprising that when I’m not in the lab, I like to keep active by hitting the gym or going for a run. But for many people, it’s much...
How Palm Oil Became The World’s Most Hated, Most Used Fat Source
Palm oil is everywhere today: in food, soap, lipstick, even newspaper ink. It’s been called the world’s most hated crop because of its association with deforestation in Southeast Asia...
Blackfish: How Captive Killer Whale Documentary Ended SeaWorld’s...
After its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2013, the documentary Blackfish reached nearly 21 million viewers within its first month of airing on CNN. The film tells the bleak story...
How Right-Wing Populists Use Food To Legitimise Their Extreme...
Getting breakfast done’: Italian strawberries, Hungarian pickles and a pint of English beer are all part of the Right-wing populists’ food fight for voters Few everyday items have the ability...