UK healthcare professionals will now be able to read cutting-edge research for free as a result of an an agreement between Jisc, the UK charity that promotes the use of digital technologies in academic research, and scientific journal publishers. A year-long…
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The Comic Sans typeface has been used in everything from Papal documents to physics presentations. It is perhaps the most loved, and most loathed, typeface on the planet! Now a new version has appeared, promising to lend credibility …
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Are we consigning a whole generation of young people to insecurity and unemployment? With youth unemployment ranging from 7.5% in Germany to 54% in Spain, conventional wisdom places the blame for high youth unemployment on changes in the labour market,…
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Hello! My name’s Dave Pickering and I make the weekly podcast Getting Better Acquainted where I record conversations with people I know, Part interview show, part oral history project, the show was nominated for a 2012 Radio Production Award, goes out regular on Resonance 104.4…
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If newspapers’ online production is taking over from print – how should they be regulated? They carry video and audio, yet are not subject to the same constraints as broadcast media. This is the issue addressed by Hugh Linehan (twitter:…
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E-cigarette advertising campaigns replicate the promises of the old tobacco advertising. The tobacco industry is snapping up e-cigarette companies. So has big tobacco found another lifelong income stream? This post, by Gerard Hastings, Professor at the Institute for Social Marketing at University of Stirling and Marisa…
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Buying things probably won’t bring you happiness, but seeking out experiences might! So how important, if at all, is having more money for our happiness and well-being? Unsurprisingly this question stimulates a lot of opinion and debate. But are people…
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The wild food trend in wealthy societies has re-acquainted people with the various edible plants to be found in the countryside. But around the world wild foods are relied on by a billion people as a key part of their diet. For…
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Dr Leanne Smith, Senior Lecturer in Law at Cardiff University writes: This weekend the implementation of the Marriage (Same Sex) Couples Act 2014 finally makes gay marriages legal.in the UK. Across newspapers and social networks, the images of happy couples bear a striking…
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“Freedom of expression is the ultimate freedom. It means the freedom to live, to think, to love and be loved, to be secure, to be happy….” So said Pakistani campaigner Shahzad Ahmad accepting the Advocacy Award at this year’s Freedom…
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