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medieval monks were more likely to have worms than ordinary people
Author : Piers Mitchell, Senior Research Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge In the middle ages, monks,…
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The UK education system preserves inequality – new report
Author : Imran Tahir, Research Economist, Institute for Fiscal Studies Your education has a huge effect on your life chances.…
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What Netflix documentary The Most Hated Man on the Internet gets right (and wrong) about ‘revenge porn’
Author : Jennifer Grant, Teaching Fellow, Community Justice, University of Portsmouth The most hated man on the internet, according to…
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UK plans to monitor migrant offenders are unethical – and they won’t work
Author : Namrata Primlani, Doctoral Researcher, Northumbria University, Newcastle One afternoon in our lab, my colleague and I were testing…
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how populist politicians use religion to help them win
Author : Mathew Guest, Professor in the Sociology of Religion, Durham University This autumn’s Brazilian presidential election offers a glimpse…
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changing how we measure progress is key to tackling a world in crisis – three leading experts
Author : Paul Allin, Visiting Professor in Statistics, Imperial College London It’s an odd quirk of history that, on the…
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A grades are up compared to pre-pandemic results
Author : Helena Gillespie, Associate Pro Vice Chancellor for Student Inclusion and Professor of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education,…
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Mystery crater potentially caused by relative of dinosaur-killing asteroid
Author : Uisdean Nicholson, Associate Professor of Geoscience, Heriot-Watt University The ocean floor is famously less explored than the surface…
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how Margaret Thatcher and other leaders cut trade union powers over centuries
Author : Keith Laybourn, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Huddersfield Strikes are often demonised in the UK as outdated…
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Ukraine war prompts Baltic states to remove Soviet memorials
Author : Dmitrijs Andrejevs, PhD candidate in Russian and East European Studies, University of Manchester Estonia is to remove all…
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