Trojan Horse Affair: podcast reignites questions about the place of religion in English and Welsh schools

Feb 18, 2022 08:38 am UTC| Insights & Views

A recent podcast series on the 2013-14 Trojan Horse affair an alleged but unproven plot to implement a strict Islamic ethos in some schools in Birmingham has drawn attention to the place that religion occupies in...

Anti-Asian violence spiked in the US during the pandemic, especially in blue-state cities

Feb 18, 2022 08:37 am UTC| Insights & Views

Its widely known that Asian Americans felt and were persecuted during the pandemic. But the extent of this violence, and its uneven geographic distribution across the U.S., is now much clearer, thanks to research I...

Female business travelers pay less than their male colleagues because they tend to book earlier

Feb 18, 2022 08:32 am UTC| Insights & Views

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Female employees consistently pay lower airfares than men do for the same flights because they tend to book earlier, according to a new...

Climate crisis and the dangers of tech-obsessed ‘longtermism’

Feb 18, 2022 08:14 am UTC| Insights & Views

As a philosopher who thinks about climate change, a central concern motivating my work in recent years has been anguish that our species and our political-economic systems are dangerously short-termist. Indeed, I have a...

Climate Change Series

Rising costs of climate change threaten to make skiing a less diverse, even more exclusive sport

Feb 18, 2022 08:10 am UTC| Insights & Views

Watching skiers compete almost entirely on artificially made snow at the 2022 Winter Olympics, we found it hard not to think about climate change and what it will mean for the future of the winter sports industry and who...

Research finds countries that focus the most on happiness can end up making people feel worse

Feb 18, 2022 04:51 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

Have you looked at the international rankings of the worlds happiest countries lately? Measuring a countrys subjective levels of happiness has become something of an international sport. People look with interest (and a...

Russia has been at war with Ukraine for years – in cyberspace

Feb 08, 2022 03:43 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology

The build up of Russian forces along Belarus 665-mile border with Ukraine is a physical manifestation of Russias intense interest in the region. Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, and now Russian President Valdimir Putin...