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Editor's note
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Humans are pretty special, right? From sequencing genomes to space flight, it’s widely believed that this intelligence and creativity accounts for why other animals haven’t achieved what we have. But evolutionary biologist Kevin Laland has other ideas – animals constantly devise innovations, and they help to explain how our own species evolved to be so very different.
Madame La Présidente, Marine Le Pen. What would France be like if the far-right candidate were to succeed in her bid for the Élysée Palace? A series of graphic novels
have tried to decode that scenario, writes Beatrice Mabilon-Bonfils for The Conversation France. As voters go to the polls on Sunday in the first round of voting, the results are too close to call. So before then, find out why Le Pen is appealing to young voters, where the leading candidates stand on foreign policy, and who is
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the leftist candidate making a last-minute surge.
Electroconvulsive therapy took a bashing in the press when it was revealed that treatment in England had risen by 11% in the past four years. Some people believe ECT is barbaric, but George Kirov comes to its defence. He explains that it is one of the most effective treatments for serious mental disorders available today.
And the latest episode of our monthly podcast, The Anthill, has landed. This month we’re focusing on memory: how it works, who controls it, and what happens when we’d rather just forget.
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Stephen Harris
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Kevin N Laland, University of St Andrews
Our secret? We're better at sharing our ideas.
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Politics + Society
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Beatrice Mabilon-Bonfils, Université de Cergy-Pontoise
In the French graphic-novel series La Présidente, François Durpaire, Laurent Muller and Farid Boudjellal imagine what might happen if Marine Le Pen wins the presidential election.
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Virginie Martin, Kedge Business School
Older white voters have long made up the core of the FN’s support, but Marine Le Pen claims that its now the party of choice for twentysomethings. It’s a claim worth investigating.
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Eglantine Staunton, University of Leeds
Their policies on Syria, Russia, terrorism and the European Union.
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Paul Smith, University of Nottingham
Mélenchon is making a strong bid for the Élysée Palace.
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Connal Parr, Northumbria University, Newcastle
The two main parties in Stormont still haven't reached a power-sharing deal, and a national vote is unlikely to help matters.
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Kathryn Simpson, Manchester Metropolitan University
One topic will feature very heavily on the campaign trail, but how will this vote affect work in Brussels?
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Maria Ryan, University of Nottingham
Having campaigned on a promise to focus on problems at home, Donald Trump is realising how important the US's global supremacy is.
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Pamela Abbott, University of Aberdeen; Andrea Teti, University of Aberdeen
Despite a wave of hope sparked by the Arab Spring, women have found themselves marginalised once again by regimes with little interest in rights and equality
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Health + Medicine
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George Kirov, Cardiff University
ECT is a highly effective treatment for severe depression and psychosis, so why does it still have a bad rap?
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Science + Technology
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Will de Freitas, The Conversation; Annabel Bligh, The Conversation; Gemma Ware, The Conversation; Miriam Frankel, The Conversation
This episode of The Anthill podcast delves into the world of memory. We talk to psychologists, historians and political scientists about how and why we remember some things and forget others.
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Devin Terhune, Goldsmiths, University of London; Steven Jay Lynn, Binghamton University, State University of New York
A review of studies in psychology and neuroscience shows we are well on the way to understanding what goes on in our brains when we are hypnotised.
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Environment + Energy
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Simon Redfern, University of Cambridge
Scientists want to exploit a natural process of carbon storage.
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Business + Economy
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Julius Probst, Lund University
The soaring cost of housing has helped make capital ownership more profitable than work.
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Arts + Culture
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Claire Nally, Northumbria University, Newcastle
The poet's letters to her former therapist will be published later this year. How far is this an invasion of her privacy?
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