Editor's note

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.

Jack Marley

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Yellowhammer: the Brexit bird with a story to tell about the EU

Samuel Jones, Royal Holloway

As both beneficiary and victim of EU policies, yellowhammers are apt symbols for Brexit's divisions.

Colin Kaepernick mural in Atlanta, Georgia. Erik S. Lesser/EPA

Nike, Colin Kaepernick and the pitfalls of ‘woke’ corporate branding

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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Terrorism has a hidden health legacy – as 9/11 shows

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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Maths quiz: a very problematic game of tennis

Gihan Marasingha, University of Exeter

Can you outsmart our maths mastermind? The solution's in.

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