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Editor's note
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Good morning and happy weekend. It’s time to take a rest, but that’s no reason to let your brain go all flabby, so we’ve decided to set you a weekend challenge. Mathematician Gihan Marasingha has devised a brutally difficult question about tennis to get your grey matter working. You have until 6.30am UK time on Monday to work it out, so you better get cracking.
In the latest episode of The Anthill podcast, we’re exploring the theme of inheritance – from the money we’re allowed to leave behind when we die to the characteristics we pass on to our children – plus a surprising revelation about hippos.
Brand new research tells us that it takes around 3,000 litres of water to produce the food you’ll eat today. It looks like eating less meat could dramatically cut this hefty environmental footprint. And, curiously, so could drinking more wine.
This week, our colleagues around the world have brought us news of how milk came to take centre stage in the battle over NAFTA and why everyone’s super excited about a telescope in Senegal.
Enjoy!
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Laura Hood
Politics Editor, Assistant Editor
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One racket of many.
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Gihan Marasingha, University of Exeter
Can you outsmart our maths mastermind?
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Gennadiy Solovyev/Shutterstock.
Will de Freitas, The Conversation; Annabel Bligh, The Conversation; Gemma Ware, The Conversation; Jack Marley, The Conversation
From wealth, to the natural world, to genes and intelligence, a podcast exploring the theme of inheritance.
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Ben Keane, University of Sheffield
Scientists have calculated the 'water footprint' of different diets across the UK, France and Germany.
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A telescope pointed at the skies above Senegal to capture the stellar occultation.
François Colas, Observatoire de Paris, Insititut de Mécanique Celeste et de Calcul des Ephémérides
David Baratoux, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)
Senegal has made great strides in astronomy and planetary sciences in recent years.
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Why are so many teachers quitting or off with stress?
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Jude Brady, University of Cambridge
Private school teachers are generally happier than state school teachers, but not for the reasons you might think.
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Jessica Pykett, University of Birmingham
Can happiness really be mapped?
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Duane Mellor, Coventry University
Two large nutritional studies seem to have reported contradictory findings on carbs. But only if you believe the headlines.
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Alain Naef, University of Cambridge
A number of emerging markets are struggling but this doesn't mean they are totally related.
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Samantha Mann, University of Portsmouth
'For Petrov and Boshirov the interview has very high stakes -- and throughout the interview they both appear very anxious and uncomfortable.'
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Christine Lee, University of St Andrews
As an Asian-American myself, this joyful movie has an important message: being a member of a minority does not define who you are.
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Richard Faragher, University of Brighton
It has recently been suggested that humans could live to 150 by 2020 simply by taking a certain supplement.
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Olivia Norfolk, Anglia Ruskin University
All too often the media buzz is centred around the managed honeybee, at the expense of other wild bee species.
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From Our Network
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Hugh Stephens, University of Calgary
Canadian dairy farmers were already well-heeled and well-protected from world market forces, but their cash grab over something called diafiltered milk has put the entire Canadian economy at risk.
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Claire Smith, Flinders University; Gary Jackson, Flinders University; Geoffrey Gray, The University of Queensland; Vincent Copley, Flinders University
In the 1940s, the last initiated Ngadjuri man, Barney Waria, gave a series of interviews to anthropologist Ronald Berndt. Almost 80 years later, Waria's grandson wants to share this material with his family.
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Featured events
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Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, EH99 1SP, United Kingdom — The Conversation
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Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, United Kingdom — University of Manchester
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The Jean McFarlane Building, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, United Kingdom — University of Manchester
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Julian Study Centre, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom — University of East Anglia
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