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These inspirational food sharing initiatives around the world demonstrate that sustainable food system can – and should – be democratic.
We’ve known how to control typhoid for over 100 years. The rapid current increase of drug-resistant variants in both rich and poor countries is down to decades of short-sighted global health policies.
Climate change is already worsening the chaos attendant on resource shortage – and, therefore, death rates.
What and who businesses exist to serve is an age-old debate – but it’s nearly always been driven by the bottom line.
The biography of a mercurial medicine.
The design of the global money game is the real antagonist in the fight against climate change. But the call to arms tends to be directed at the players who have had best luck with the dice.
From mobile phones to artificial wombs: what a breathtakingly visionary set of predictions from a century ago can teach us about our attempts to forecast the future today.
How does a man with no education convince everyone he is a priest, professor and doctor?
Realising the silence of outer space was what made us appreciate our precarious position down on this pale blue dot – so beginning our obsession with extinction.
The British nuclear weapon tests on Kiritimati (or Christmas) Island had profound and lasting cultural consequences for both atomic veterans and local islanders.
We are living through the latest battle in a 300-year long ideological war over the meaning of humanity itself.
It’s time race equality was practised in the academy, not just preached.
Far from being a technical, commercial instrument, money can be a social and political construct that has immense radical potential.
The process of radicalisation is a complex system that cannot be reduced to the brain, behaviour, or environment. It exists at the intersection of all these elements.
Why radical changes to society are needed if we are to escape environmental disaster.
The link between empire, inequality – and Brexit.
Politicians have been leaking secrets to journalists as long as newspapers have existed. But it’s getting more difficult thanks to surveillance technology.
Evidence for the benefits of empathy in healthcare is mounting.
Scientists are in a race to genetically engineer a new plant resistant to a devastating disease that is threatening to wipe out the banana.
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Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter
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Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
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Senior Research Scientist, Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University
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Lecturer, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Lancaster University
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Emeritus Professor in Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
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Professor in Computing and Information Systems, Edge Hill University
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Senior Lecturer in Political Communications, Nottingham Trent University
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PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge
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Principal Lecturer in History, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of Social Science and Public Policy, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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Professor of Law and Society, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Lecturer in South Asian History, University of Reading
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Reader in History and Deputy Dean of Humanities (Research), University of Essex
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Visiting Researcher, University of Oxford
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Professor in Health History, University of Strathclyde