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Editor's note
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Operation Yellowhammer, the UK government’s plan for a No-Deal Brexit, introduced many of us to the unassuming bird of the same name. Yellowhammers sing a song that sounds like “a little bit of bread and no cheese”, hence their link to stockpiling food and essentials. But this bird has more to say than its song suggests, and its own complicated history with the EU. Samuel Jones details the lives of these plucky European nomads and finds a story
that rivals our own divisions over Brexit.
Nike sparked an online firestorm recently by choosing Colin Kaepernick, the former NFL player who knelt during the national anthem to protest police brutality, as the face of their new ad campaign. While people fight over the stunt’s meaning, Simon Chadwick and Sarah Zipp argue that this kind of corporate activism undermines the movements it co-opts, and exposes Nike to criticism.
More people have now died due to pollution from 9/11 than from the attack itself. Rescue and recovery workers and others in the vicinity at such attacks are at greater risk of depression, PTSD, decreased cognitive function, increased risk of strokes, and cancer. Terrorism, as Becky Alexis-Martin explores, has hidden health effects, long-term and insidious, that are often forgotten.
On Friday, mathematician Gihan Marasingha set us a devilishly difficult numbers puzzle. So did you manage to outsmart him? Find the quiz – and the solution – here.
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Jack Marley
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Top stories
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On the fence.
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Samuel Jones, Royal Holloway
As both beneficiary and victim of EU policies, yellowhammers are apt symbols for Brexit's divisions.
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Colin Kaepernick mural in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Simon Chadwick, University of Salford; Sarah Zipp, University of Stirling
Nike has reaped a whirlwind in their latest ad campaign featuring Colin Kaepernick, but it's the inevitable windfall they're likely interested in.
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Becky Alexis-Martin, Manchester Metropolitan University
Approximately 10,000 people have been diagnosed with cancer due to 9/11. What support is available to this community, and is it working?
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One racket of many.
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Gihan Marasingha, University of Exeter
Can you outsmart our maths mastermind? The solution's in.
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Politics + Society
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Paula Keaveney, Edge Hill University
Gina Miller and Layla Moran are due to speak. Coincidence?
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Katharine Dommett, University of Sheffield; Luke Temple, University of Sheffield
A national survey reveals a low level of interest in this kind of political activity.
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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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Karen Slade, Nottingham Trent University
Well trained and experienced staff are a crucial part of improvements.
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Riccardo Labianco, SOAS, University of London
When it comes to preventing air strikes on civilians, the law of the arms trade is clear. Why is it so hard for countries to observe it?
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Constantin Eckner, University of St Andrews
In the mid-1980s Germany was wracked by a toxic 'Asyldebatte' that bears similarities to what's happening today.
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Cities
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Elisa Burrai, Leeds Beckett University
Cheap flights and irresponsible tourists are causing many holiday destinations to become overrun with visitors.
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Robert Shaw, Newcastle University
In a world of 24-hour news, night tubes and light pollution, does the traditional night time really still exist?
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Business + Economy
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Nafis Alam, University of Reading
Gordon Brown is worried. So should we all be.
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Alper Kara, University of Huddersfield; Solomon Y Deku, Nottingham Trent University
The housing bubble that burst and triggered the 2007-08 global financial crisis was fuelled by securitisation.
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Health + Medicine
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Kevin Davies, Brighton and Sussex Medical School; Jessica Eccles, Brighton and Sussex Medical School; Neil Harrison, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
A new study offers hope.
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Science + Technology
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Ioannis Dimitrios Zoulias, University of Reading
'The Right Trousers' combine soft artificial muscles and electric stimulation to get people moving.
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