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A man drawing a conceal carry pistol from an inside the waistband holster

A third of people from Chicago carry concealed handguns in public before they reach middle age

05 Dec 2024

Major 25-year study reveals a ‘dual pathway’ for when people start carrying.

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How a drought led to the rise of skateboarding in 1970s California

12 Dec 2023

Why did professional skateboarding arise in southern California in the 1970s? Was it a coincidence, or was it a perfect storm of multiple factors?

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Black British Voices: the findings

28 Sep 2023

The largest survey to date of the opinions and attitudes of Black people in Britain has revealed a central split on the question of British pride.

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Mount Rinjani in Indonesia, which had one of the largest eruptions in the last millennium in 1257 (magnitude 7).

Risk of volcano catastrophe ‘a roll of the dice’, say experts

17 Aug 2022

While funding is pumped into preventing low-probability scenarios such as asteroid collision, the far more likely threat of a large volcanic eruption...

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 Student performing on rigging at the University of Stockholm’s ‘Department of Circus’, which explores different disciplines through circus arts.

“Write fewer papers, take more risks”: researchers call for ‘rebellion’

06 Jun 2022

A group of education specialists are urging researchers to challenge the “structures and regulations” which define academic scholarship, arguing that...

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Gorillas found to live in 'complex' societies, suggesting deep roots of human social evolution

10 Jul 2019

Algorithms reveal “social tiers” in gorillas seen in only a few other species, such as dolphins and humans. Researchers suggest that some of these...

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Muslims leaving prison talk about the layers of their lives

15 Aug 2018

The Lammy Review in 2017 drew attention to inequalities among black, Asian and minority ethnic people in the criminal justice system. It also flagged...

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How Japan’s ‘salaryman’ is becoming cool

02 Feb 2018

Japanese men are becoming cool . The suit-and-tie salaryman remodels himself with beauty treatments and 'cool biz' fashion. Loyal company soldiers...

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The social enterprise greenhouse that helps businesses bloom

30 Oct 2017

When it comes to starting social enterprises, Paul Tracey and Neil Stott would love "to see a thousand flowers bloom". But doing good for society isn...

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The bodies of  two Protestants, Martin Bucer and Peter Phagius, are burnt in Cambridge's market place, 1557

The Reformation is remembered

27 Oct 2017

The Reformation is famously traced to an event that took place in Germany 500 years ago and reverberated across Europe. An online exhibition paints a...

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Releasing a better version of me: the power of education in prison to change lives

16 Jan 2017

A pioneering project to teach university students alongside prisoners, so that they learn from each other, has proved remarkably successful. The...

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Before race mattered: what archives tell us about early encounters in the French colonies

16 Nov 2016

As Europe expanded its overseas colonies, fixed ideas of racial differences took hold. Historian Dr Mélanie Lamotte, whose forebears include a slave...

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