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Editor's note
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As the NHS budget deficit continues to balloon, The Conversation reveals two ways healthcare spending could be reduced. One, says Rebecca Stack, is to keep the “worried well” away from the internet. This could save the NHS an estimated £56m in unnecessary tests and appointments. Another, says Mike Lean, is to let people with type 2 diabetes know that they can become diabetes free by losing 15kg of bodyweight. Such advice, he contends, could save the NHS a fortune – not to mention, many people’s lives.
England has been ordered to clean up its act with a new government strategy that aims to reform rebellious litter louts through education and punishment. But there’s no use blaming England’s messiest problem on a few rotten apples. Unless something is done to deter the producers of plastic packaging, the strategy’s key tactics will prove to be, well, a little bit rubbish.
Why do letters look like they do? New research suggests we might have a better-than-chance ability to guess what sounds certain unfamiliar letters represent, and that their shapes may be linked to the pitch of the sounds. If that’s true, argues Paul Breen, it could have big implications for how we understand and learn languages.
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Clint Witchalls
Health + Medicine Editor
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Top story
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Rebecca Stack, Nottingham Trent University
There are better places to go for health advice than cyberspace.
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Cities
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Michele Acuto, UCL
An expert in urban leadership reports from the UN General Assembly's high-level conference.
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Sherilyn MacGregor, University of Manchester
The strategy's focus on rotten apples seems destined to fail.
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Science + Technology
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Paul Braterman, University of Glasgow
Rather than castigate those who deny evolution, it is more useful to consider their arguments to help science explain it better
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Paul Breen, University of Westminster
New research gives weight to Noam Chomsky's idea of a universal language ability.
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Health + Medicine
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Mike Lean, University of Glasgow
...and then they need to record when remission occurs.
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Rhi Willmot, Bangor University
Final year is stressful enough – without having to run 26 miles.
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Tara Coltman-Patel, Nottingham Trent University
Language can change the way we think – and not always for the best.
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Politics + Society
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Simon P. Watmough, European University Institute
Turkey’s humanitarian response to Rohingya's crisis highlights President Erdoğan ambition to appear as a world champion for Muslim rights.
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Nick McKerrell, Glasgow Caledonian University
After a series of high-profile resignations and allegations of misconduct, effective leadership of Scotland's centralised police force is lacking.
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Magnus Marsden, University of Sussex
Suffering the daily toil of violence, with little chance of escape.
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Robert de Vries, University of Kent
New research on implicit attitudes to people who receive benefits shows how pervasive hostility towards them is.
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Arts + Culture
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Leshu Torchin, University of St Andrews
First They Killed My Father strains every sinew to pull off authenticity, but there are limits to what it can achieve.
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Richard Witts, Edge Hill University
The Mercury Prize still relies on the album format in an age of downloads and streaming.
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Business + Economy
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Loizos Heracleous, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
The tech giant has doubled down on its strategy of exclusivity, but does it risk weakening its position in emerging markets?
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Education
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Dennis Duty, University of Huddersfield; Ruth Brooks, University of Huddersfield
One in ten students drop out of uni in their first year.
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