Why we think the weather affects how a cricket ball swings … when it doesn’t
There’s no evidence that cloud cover affects bowling at all, but everyone involved with cricket seems to think it does.
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Five ways to inspire ocean connection: reflections from my 40‑year marine ecology career
Sharing the stories of progress and innovation that show how our patches of the sea are recovering can show what’s possible and inspire further positive action.
At Kidzania, kids get real life lessons in work, money, consumerism – and debt
Inside the theme park where kids have to play at real jobs to earn a living.
Still down and out in Paris and London (and not rising up)
Today’s employment crisis is as serious as the Great Depression – so why aren’t we up in arms?
After Sandy, New York plans to rebuild by blue‑green design
When Hurricane Sandy struck New York in 2012, it was a brutal wake up call for the Big Apple. That call should have also been heard by the citizens of every other coastal city and those responsible for…
The hangover in literature, from Shakespeare and Burns to Bridget Jones
Memoirs of the morning after: because literature tells us the hangover is about so much more than physical symptoms.
Plankton might be trojan horse for oyster herpes virus
Plankton might cause the spread of a herpes-like virus in oysters. The oyster virus is a branch of the herpes virus, but…
Baby oysters follow the crackling sound of snapping shrimp
Playing the sounds of the sea can attract lost baby oysters to join the restoration of oyster reefs.
The original climate crisis – how the little ice age devastated early modern Europe
The little ice age unleashed famines and revolutions which tested the very bonds of society.
Eight wonders of the world
Our colleagues from editions of The Conversation around the globe share their favourite solutions-focused stories.
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