April marks the arrival of Spring. Sun-yellow daffodils have burst from the ground and blossom falls like confetti. For most of us in 2020, we’ll be watching the new season roll in from inside our houses, but that doesn’t mean ...
If you’ve ever listened to an audiobook, chances are you’ve had someone tell you it’s “cheating” or not “real” reading. I admit, before I started listening to audiobooks I was also guilty of thinking this. There was only one true way ...
For every heart-breaking novel or laugh-out-loud comedy, there are stories that scare us silly. They are the ones that stay with us, or that we scare our friends with. No matter how many times we read them, they frighten us ...
This article was written by Richard Bower, Durham University and Simon John James, Durham University. It was originally published on The Conversation Literature professor Simon John James and physicist Richard ...
This article was written by Philip Steer, Massey University There is a strange and troubled kind of intimacy between our own moment of climate change and 19th century Britain. It was there that ...
This article was written by Thusha Rajendran, Heriot-Watt University When dealing with the otherness of disability, the Victorians in their shame built huge out-of-sight asylums, and their legacy of “them” and “us” continues to ...
This article was written by David Abbott, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health When you read something, you first need to detect the words and then to interpret them by determining context and meaning. This complex process ...
Robert Winston is a scientist, medical doctor, author, politician, television presenter and currently Professor of Science and Society at Imperial College London. Abigail Jaggers went along to Imperial College to talk to Robert about his varied career, the book he might ...
This article was written by Myles Pilling, Bath Spa University, and was originally published on the The Conversation. It is estimated that around one in ten people have dyslexia – a common learning difficulty which can ...
The population of the developing world is growing faster than anywhere else on Earth, and the futures of the people who live there are crucial to the collective future of the planet. But most of the ...