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Editor's note
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Antisemitic incidents are on the rise across the globe. To understand this modern hatred, historian Gervase Phillips looks into the past in an attempt to understand its origins. He finds seeds of antisemitism all the way back into antiquity and asks why this ancient phenomenon is on the march once more. For more In Depth, Out Loud long reads, click here.
Scientists recently projected how high the sea level will rise by the year 2300. But what’s the point in such sci-fi climate science – won’t we have something else to worry about in three centuries time? Dmitry Yumashev disagrees. He says some of the consequences of climate change today won’t become apparent a long time yet.
In 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote the Yellow Wallpaper, a semi-autobiographical short story about a woman treated for nervous exhaustion and “a slight hysterical tendency”. The “rest cure” she is prescribed echoed Gilman’s experience of a very 19th-century diagnosis: that intellectual and non-feminine behaviours could drive mental illness. Hilary Marland explains this extraordinary story of a protagonist driven to madness, and her eventual escape to sanity.
All the best.
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Paul Keaveny
Commissioning Editor
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Stained glass depicting the legend of Jews stealing sacramental bread, in the Cathedral of Brussels.
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Gervase Phillips, Manchester Metropolitan University
Antisemitic incidents are on the rise across the globe. To understand this modern hatred we need to look into the past and understand its origins.
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Dmitry Yumashev, Lancaster University
Long-term climate modelling may appear to focus on the impossibly far future. But the full impact of some climate processes won't be apparent for centuries.
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Hilary Marland, University of Warwick
Treatment for nervous exhaustion in the Victorian era could literally drive you mad.
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Arts + Culture
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Bronwen Thomas, Bournemouth University
Criticism of ebooks is the last thing you'd expect from the chief executive of global publishing company Hachette Livre.
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Business + Economy
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Victoria Wass, Cardiff University; Melanie Jones, Cardiff University
Only half of disabled people are in work, despite high rates of employment across the population as a whole.
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Tonia Novitz, University of Bristol; Alan L Bogg, University of Bristol; Katie Bales, University of Bristol; Michael Ford, University of Bristol; Roseanne Russell, University of Bristol
The Taylor Review and the subsequent UK government's response do a bad job of proposing solutions.
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Alex Connock, University of Salford
E-commerce videos are a precision advertising tool which could put the nail in the coffin of traditional television adverts.
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Science + Technology
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Emily Bailes, Royal Holloway
Hoverflys are helping spread disease among the already declining bee population.
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Raheel Nawaz, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Environment + Energy
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Danita Catherine Burke, University of Southern Denmark; Andre Saramago, Universidade Lusíada Porto
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Politics + Society
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James Newell, University of Salford
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Dylan Loh Ming Hui, University of Cambridge
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Aleardo Zanghellini, University of Reading
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Education
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Mandy Pierlejewski, Leeds Beckett University
A recent report suggests reception classes should spend less time playing and more time focusing on literacy and mathematics.
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Michael Donnelly, University of Bath; Sol Gamsu, University of Bath
New research reveals that poorer students are less likely to leave home for university – and that has serious impacts on their experience.
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Health + Medicine
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Chris McMurran, University of Cambridge
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Mimi Tatlow-Golden, The Open University; Amandine Garde, University of Liverpool; Elizabeth Handsley, Flinders University
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