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Editor's note
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On a recent trip to England’s South Downs, Tim Bale got into a heated argument with a local café owner, who was displaying a golliwog. For Bale, and many others, these caricature dolls are racist symbols that should have been consigned to the rubbish bin years ago. The confrontation got Bale wondering: do people still think golliwogs aren’t offensive? He decided to commission a special opinion poll to find out – and the results were surprising.
Nothing matters. In fact, it was only with the relatively late arrival of “zero” that complex mathematics became possible. Ittay Weiss tells the remarkable tale of how the number zero – once considered the devil’s numeral – changed the world.
According to the latest data on Britain’s favourite baby names, Amelia, Olivia and Emily and Oliver, Jack and Harry are now in vogue. But names are more than just nouns, says Jane Pilcher, they also reveal an awful lot about who we are and where we come from. Before you name your new child, make sure you read this.
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Laura Hood
Politics Editor, Assistant Editor
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Tim Bale, Queen Mary University of London
Some 53% of British people think it's acceptable to display these dolls – and the difference between remainers and leavers is particularly surprising.
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Science + Technology
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Ittay Weiss, University of Portsmouth
Turning zero from a punctuation mark into a number paved the way for everything from algebra to algorithms.
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Politics + Society
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Jane Pilcher, University of Leicester
The latest UK baby name data is in. But a name is more than just a noun, it can reveal who you are and where you come from.
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Dan Plesch, SOAS, University of London
Why would the US and UK want to suppress the work of a post-war human rights effort?
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Jennifer Todd, University College Dublin
Since the Good Friday Agreement, political dialogue has opened up along the Irish border.
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Tom Quinn, University of Essex
Angela Merkel is on course for victory but she will need to form a coalition, and there's more than one way to make that happen.
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Gyorgy Toth, University of Stirling
America's indigenous tribes put themselves on the map in 1977. Now they've got Donald Trump to contend with.
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Richard W Whitecross, Edinburgh Napier University
The world has much to learn from the maturity, restraint and negotiation skills of one small country facing two superpowers
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Tristan Sturm, Queen's University Belfast
The power of apocalyptic thinking isn't to be underestimated.
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Anna Kotova, University of Birmingham
Cigarettes are part of the social and economic fabric of prisons.
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Arts + Culture
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Joanne Crawford, University of Leeds
The artist's figures are alone and vulnerable.
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Cheryl Lawther, Queen's University Belfast
Northern Ireland has a tourist circuit steeped in death and disaster – is this a good thing?
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Eleanor Spencer-Regan, Durham University
If Swift's new single is anything to go by, the poet and the former 'pop princess' have an awful lot in common.
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Education
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Claire Bessant, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Parents can cause privacy problems by oversharing their child's pictures online.
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Health + Medicine
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Thomas J Joyce, Newcastle University
Here's how we can change the system of approval for new medical implants.
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Charlotte Baker, Lancaster University
An upcoming UN meeting on witchcraft and human rights in Geneva is set to focus on the rising attacks on Albinos and the trade of body parts in sub-Saharan African.
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Business + Economy
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Ioannis Glinavos, University of Westminster
Before CETA fully comes into effect, it must be ratified by each EU member state. Greece might have cause to stop it.
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Environment + Energy
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Sara Mynott, University of Exeter
Scientists have just discovered an unusual symbiotic relationship between crabs and living corals.
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