The night is full of animal life, but scientists know very little about it: Naturalists and life scientists have long debated how insect-eating bats navigate their dark world. Sarun T/Shutterstock Human disturbance is rapidly changing the nature of the nocturnal world. Intensive farming, suburban spread, artificially lit cities, and continuously busy road systems mean daytime …
Weight loss: the time of day you eat your biggest meal has little effect – new study: Jan Mika/Shutterstock Some of the most popular diet advice in recent years has centred around the idea that the right timing for your meals can make a big difference in the amount of weight you lose. It was …
Kenya’s Muslims: a divided community with little political clout: Graffiti in Muslim-dominated Mombasa rallies against the 2017 election with the Kiswahili slogan "Kura ni Haramu" ("voting is haram/prohibitted"). Photo by Janer Murikira/picture alliance via Getty Images Kenyan Muslims played a part in the push to repeal repressive political laws in the country in the early …
Long COVID: with no treatment options, it’s little wonder people are seeking unproven therapies like ‘blood washing’: Schira/Shutterstock A recent investigation published by the British Medical Journal revealed that long COVID patients are travelling abroad to seek expensive “blood washing” treatment. This experimental treatment – the medical name for which is apheresis – involves taking …
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Primary school children get little academic benefit from homework: Dragon Images/Shutterstock Homework: a word that can cause despair not just in children, but also in parents and even teachers. And for primary school children at least, it may be that schools setting homework is more trouble than it’s worth. There is evidence that homework can …
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Rishi Sunak: Britain’s poorest have little privacy over their financial affairs – the chancellor shouldn’t either: Chancellor Rishi Sunak has asked the prime minister’s independent adviser to look into whether he properly declared his ministerial interests, after a week of headlines about his personal tax arrangements. The fast-rising politician, widely tipped as a future prime …
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The original climate crisis – how the little ice age devastated early modern Europe: Weary hunters return from an expedition with little to show for it in the 1565 Dutch painting, Hunters in the Snow. Pieter Bruegel the Elder Just as the UK was recovering from storms Eunice and Franklin, scientists of UN’s the Intergovernmental Panel …
LGBT+ history: the story of camp, from Little Richard to Lil Nas X: UPI/Alamy Although camp is difficult to define, it probably doesn’t need much description. Ever since 1956 – when former teenage drag queen Little Richard began performing his tribute to anal sex, “Tutti Frutti”, while wearing a six-inch pompadour, plucked eyebrows, and eyeliner …
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Barney Rachabane: South Africa’s little giant who took an epic jazz journey: Detail from the album cover for Sweet Matara, 1976. Black Music Preparing for a jazz gig on 13 November 2021, I learned of the passing of my South African music soul brother and boyhood idol, Barney Rachabane. He was 75. The words of …
Media scandals: sound and fury, but in the end, little changes: The recent political scandal in the UK involving Owen Paterson, a Conservative MP who was found to have broken parliamentary standards by repeatedly lobbying the government on behalf of two companies which paid him a large regular monthly fee, presents a classic case of …
COP26: why politicians have little incentive to prepare for future climate change disasters: The impact of climate change and how to respond to it is the defining political debate of our era. There are two forms this response can take – reacting to environmental disasters by providing financial and technical assistance to affected areas, or …
South Africa in the news: Little Amal: Giant puppet treks Europe in skirt made by Highgate volunteers: Little Amal, a giant puppet of a Syrian child refugee, has trekked 8,000km from the Turkish-Syrian border to the UK wearing a …: “South Africa” – BingNews Morgan ignoring permutations ahead of South Africa showdown: Eoin Morgan has …