Former slave owners moved to Devon from across the country and empire to retire in coastal resorts, a new book shows. Men and women who had enslaved men, women and children in the West Indies made their home – or second or third home – in the county after emancipationContinue Reading
The beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic saw consumers flocking to the shops to urgently stock up on items such as toilet paper and pasta. This phenomenon, termed “panic buying”, is now happening again in Britain – but this time it’s fuel that people are after. Continued panic buying is onlyContinue Reading
Sarah Holmlund/Shutterstock This episode of The Conversation’s In Depth Out Loud podcast explores why experts are worried about AIs becoming addicts. You can read the text version of this in-depth article here. The audio version is read by Peter Hanly in partnership with Noa, News Over Audio. You can listenContinue Reading
Cookstoves and open fires are the main cooking and heating methods for three billion people globally. Each year, they cost millions of livesContinue Reading
Following her triumph in the recent US Open tennis tournament, Emma Raducanu was interviewed by Chinese media outlet CGTN and revealed that maths was her favourite subject at school. Raducanu told the interviewer she was “a numbers person” and really enjoyed the problem-solving aspect. The tennis player, who recently receivedContinue Reading
The current HGV driver shortage is the latest chapter in the UK’s supply chain jitters, disrupting wholesale food delivery, cancelling bin collections and leading to the panic buying of fuel. While there is a good chance the country will overcome this temporary problem, the driver shortage is calling into questionContinue Reading
Many scientists expect that Covid-19 will become an endemic disease. Does that mean accepting some deaths as inevitable?Continue Reading
Can spider webs predict the onset of winter? Probably not. Charlie Goodall/Shutterstock The tell-tale signs that autumn is here are clear to us; the days are getting shorter and the temperature is decreasing. We take this as a sign to pull out our winter woollies and think about turning onContinue Reading
FabrikaSimf/Shutterstock With Japan riding the crest of its postwar economic miracle, Sony chairman Akio Morita and Japan’s Minister of Transport Shintarō Ishihara unleashed a manifesto. The document, published in 1989, contained a prophecy that propelled it to domestic bestseller status, and into the concerned hands of officials at the CIA.Continue Reading
Are these the footprints of the first-known American teen? Matthew Robert Bennett, Author provided Our species began migrating out of Africa around 100,000 years ago. Aside from Antarctica, the Americas were the last continents humans reached, with the early pioneers crossing the now-submerged Bering land bridge that once connected easternContinue Reading
