Year One: ‘Without Optimism, You Can’t be a Farmer’
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2020-07-18
Black, Asian and other minority groups are more likely to have lost their jobs in lockdown – new research
The COVID-19 pandemic and the global rise of anti-racism movements, such as Black Lives Matter, are the most prominent events to define our lives in 2020. The two events have not developed separately. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is severely racialised. Emerging evidence has already revealed wide ethnic disparitiesContinue Reading
2020-07-18
Rugby: retired players more likely than other athletes to suffer long-term injuries
Many retired players report injuries last long after they stop playing. Roger Sedres/ Shutterstock Rugby brings a risk of injury at all levels of the game. But for professional rugby players, there’s an even higher risk of injury. And often, these injuries can last a long time. Our research foundContinue Reading
2020-07-18
Neowise: an increasingly rare opportunity to spot a comet with the naked eye
Neowise seen from the International Space Station. NASA Neowise is the first bright comet to be visible with the naked eye from the northern hemisphere since the mid-1990s. Another thing that makes this comet interesting is that it has a relatively long orbital period, meaning it was only discovered aContinue Reading
2020-07-18
Four things that can bias how teachers assess student work
stockfour/Shutterstock The way that teachers assess students has been under scrutiny since the UK government announced that this would be one element of a range of evidence used to replace GCSE and A Level exams this year. Teacher assessment is a key part of university study, too. University educators playContinue Reading
2020-07-18
Herd immunity: why the figure is always a bit vague
hobbit/Shutterstock Nearly 100 years ago, two British researchers, William Topley and Graham Wilson, were experimenting with bacterial infections in mice. They noticed that individual survival depended on how many of the mice were vaccinated. So the role of the immunity of an individual needed to be distinguished from the immunityContinue Reading
2020-07-18
Mauritania: A racial pyramid seemingly resistant to change · Global Voices
The country remains divided by skin colour Photo of a traditional wedding in Atar in Mauritania by Radosław Botev, in free use on Wikipedia In ethnically diverse Mauritania, the government appears to have turned deaf ears to the demands of the global Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, continuing policies which reproduce systemicContinue Reading
2020-07-17
Shamima Begum: what the legal ruling about her return to the UK actually means
Shamima Begum, who left the UK as a 15-year-old schoolgirl for Syria in 2015, should be allowed back so that she can effectively challenge the removal of her British citizenship, the Court of Appeal ruled on July 16. The decision – which the Home Office announced it would appeal –Continue Reading
2020-07-17
High-intensity workouts may put regular gym goers at risk of rhabdomyolysis, a rare but dangerous condition
Those most at risk are male, non-elite, regular exercisers with a body mass index of over 30. Daxiao Productions/ Shutterstock If you’re a gym regular, you’re probably familiar with the feeling of achey or sore muscles a day or two after overdoing it slightly during your workout. But while thisContinue Reading
2020-07-17
New dinosaur discovery in Switzerland fills a gap in evolutionary history of sauropods
_Schleitheimia_ (left) and _Plateosaurus_ (above right). University of Utrecht, Author provided Dinosaurs were the dominant group of animals on Earth for over 150 million years. Long-necked, plant-eating sauropods such as Brontosaurus, Diplodocus and Brachiosaurus are probably among the most famous dinosaurs, in part thanks to their huge size and strangeContinue Reading
2020-07-17