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Voyage Around My Room: lessons on marvelling at the minutiae of our homes in isolation
The Met For those struggling with lockdown, an anti-travel book written in 1790 offers unlikely solace. Written while under house arrest in Turin, Italy, Xavier de Maistre’s Voyage Around My Room is an undervalued travelogue. De Maistre describes his travels in miniature with the enchantment of the Grand Tour: aContinue Reading
LGBT+ history month: remembering the ‘Glamour Boys’ – the gay MPs who warned 1930s Britain about Nazism
Shutterstock In the 1920s and 1930s of buttoned-up Britain, homosexuality was an illicit act, and would remain that way until 1967 when the law changed in England and Wales. Even though gay culture was vibrant, it existed mostly underground, its community forced to socialise with a certain degree of covertnessContinue Reading
Coronavirus school closures: what’s the evidence?
The COVID-19 pandemic has been disastrous for many children, whose education and development have been badly affected by repeated school closures. Schools in the UK were first closed to most pupils as a pandemic control measure in March 2020 and again in January 2021 in response to the spread ofContinue Reading
Rhodri Thomas and Karl McConville to lead Strutt & Parker’s rural business
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Jonathan Lewis puts USMNT up 1-0 on Trinidad & Tobago with second-minute goal
Watch Jonathan Lewis of the U.S. Men’s National Team score an early goal to put his team up 1-0 on Trinidad & Tobago.Continue Reading
If control measures are stopping flu in its tracks, why aren’t they stopping coronavirus?
As the COVID-19 pandemic rages, other respiratory illnesses have been unusually quiet this year. Fears of a dangerous influenza and COVID-19 “syndemic” have not come to pass as influenza cases reached some of the lowest rates ever observed. The near absence of the flu might reflect increased rates of vaccination,Continue Reading
Why creationism bears all the hallmarks of a conspiracy theory
A replica of Noah's Ark from the biblical tale at the Ark Encounter theme park in Kentucky. Lindasj22/Shutterstock Many people around the world looked on aghast as they witnessed the harm done by conspiracy theories such as QAnon and the myth of the stolen US election that led to theContinue Reading
Mars: how scientists prevent Earth’s microbes from contaminating other planets
Nasa's Perseverance. NASA/JPL-Caltech, CC BY-SA There are two planned Mars landings in 2021. First, Nasa’s Perseverance rover is due to land on the planet later this month. Then China’s Tianwen rover will follow in May. Both missions intend to search the planet for signs of life. But how do weContinue Reading
LGBT+ history month: forgotten figures who challenged gender expression and identity centuries ago
Non-binary and trans people have always been here, not least in every recorded society from the ancient world onwards. Why is it then that they’re often absent from the tales and lists of historical figures we hear about? The answer lies, in part, with how history is recorded and whoContinue Reading
How Mars became the prize for the new space race – and why China is hellbent on winning it
All eyes on Mars. Kevin Gill/Flickr Looking at its achievements over the past decade, nobody would doubt China is aiming to win the new space race. Not only has it been the only country to land on the Moon in about 40 years, and the first to soft land onContinue Reading