Oct 7, 2021 | Arts & Culture, Science & Technology
By Paul Panckhurst There’s evidence that looking at paintings can reduce stress and anxiety. A researcher wants to know if this phenomenon can help surgery patients heal. Pablo Picasso once said, “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”...
Oct 6, 2021 | Science & Technology
By Stuart Johnston & Kevin Painter Mathematical modelling reveals that human-driven noise in our oceans is affecting marine life, particularly whales, confusing their annual migrations. The long-distance migrations performed by groups of animals offer some of the...
Oct 6, 2021 | Science & Technology
By Anne Salmond The use of ‘permanent’ plantations of pine trees solely to build up carbon offsets is solving one harm with another, writes Dame Anne Salmond. There is an alternative. As Argentinian ecologist Sandra Diaz said during the 2021 Nobel Prize...
Oct 5, 2021 | Business & Economics
By Alastair Smith Global food prices shot up nearly 33% in September 2021 compared with the same period the year before. That’s according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)‘s monthly Food Price Index, which also found that global prices have risen by...
Oct 5, 2021 | Business & Economics, Politics & Society
By Laurie Macfarlane Soaring gas prices have exposed longstanding vulnerabilities in Britain’s energy system. A radical overhaul is long overdue. “There’s absolutely no question of the lights going out,” the business secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, told the...
Oct 4, 2021 | Politics & Society
One year ago this week, Azerbaijani forces attacked the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. This war redrew the maps of the area. It shifted the power and influence in this region away from Armenian’s who have declared the region independent, although, legally, it...
Oct 4, 2021 | Politics & Society
Human rights internationally are bound by the legal principle of national sovereignty. What this means is that nations are the entities that are expected to protect human rights. Human rights are universal; we have these rights because we are human. So how can...