Making the news

There was an interesting discussion on The Media Show (BBC Radio 4) about communicating university research this week. It was prompted by recent coverage of scientists from Newcastle University who created sperm from embryonic stem cells in a laboratory for the first time.
The panellists discussed the way in which this research was covered in the media, [...]

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How to say I love you

If you’ve got a spare eight minutes, have a look at this YouTube video:

It’s amazing how much can be said with so little. It’s a thought-provoking look at how we make connections in a world growing increasingly reliant on online interactions.
You can read about the background to the film in this [...]

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The Language of Love

Having lost my husband to the post-apocalyptic world of Fallout 3 (I just don’t know how he can play it for such long stretches!!) I have rediscovered an old hobby of my own – learning a language.
If you were to peer through our living room window you’d see A shooting the living bejesus out of various [...]

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Expect the unexpected?

Everywhere I turn at the moment I seem to come across Oxford University, my alma mater. In the past couple of weeks I’ve downloaded umpteen Oxford podcasts from iTunes (very interesting), watched the bearable film The Oxford Murders (not so interesting), received my college magazine (interesting for the fact that my name and Tony Blair’s are listed on the [...]

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High IQ “turns academics into atheists”

There’s an interesting article in Times Higher Education today called High IQ turns academics into atheists in which they argue that “intelligence is a predictor of religious scepticism” and that “belief in God is much lower among academics than among the general population because scholars have higher IQs”.
The article is based on research by Richard Lynn, emeritus [...]

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