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Louise Thompson has compiled a guide on how to contact your MP if you want to add your voice to calls for action. She covers everything from how to find out who your representative is to what to put in a letter to them – as well as what you can expect them to do in response.
Many of us also want to give to charity campaigns and lots of messages are doing the rounds calling for donations of food, bedding and clothes. But while it might feel less meaningful, experts confirm that the very best way to support people in need really is to just send money.
Meanwhile, new research on the natural world shows how the delicate balance between the predators of the animal kingdom and their prey has evolved. And why standing on a vibrating platform could be good for your health.
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Laura Hood
Politics Editor, Assistant Editor
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Louise Thompson, University of Manchester
You ask a question, call for a particular action and express solidarity with the person who represents you in parliament.
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‘Survival of the fittest’ may not function so well in a global society.
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Axel G. Rossberg, Queen Mary University of London
New research sheds light on why predators don’t evolve to become so aggressive that they eat all their prey – and then go extinct themselves.
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It’s thought whole-body vibration training improves physical function for the same reasons exercise does.
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Matthew Farrow, University of Bradford; Hope Rose Edwards, University of Bradford
Whole-body vibration training is gaining interest as it’s easier to do than regular exercise.
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Business + Economy
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David Glew, Leeds Beckett University
Learn to avoid paying more than you need to – without having to put up with being cold.
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Politics + Society
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Sadiq Bhanbhro, Sheffield Hallam University
Despite confessing to the murder of his sister, Qandeel Baloch in 2016, Waseem Khan has been acquitted by the Lahore High Court. The case has shocked activists campaigning against honour killings.
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Environment
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Lisa Schipper, University of Oxford; Vanesa Castán Broto, University of Sheffield; Winston Chow, Singapore Management University
Three of the report’s 270 authors highlight some key findings.
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Gemma Ware, The Conversation; Daniel Merino, The Conversation
Plus, a section of a rocket is about to crash on the Moon. What scientists hope to learn from it. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
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Ian Williams, University of Southampton; Chloe Way, University of Southampton; Malcolm David Hudson, University of Southampton
The amount of microplastics in the environment is being significantly underestimated, research shows.
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Anshuman Bhardwaj, University of Aberdeen; Lydia Sam, University of Aberdeen
Remote sensing satellites provide the crucial data that helps scientists model disasters so that they can work on predicting avalanche patterns in future.
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Ukraine invasion
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Jonathan Este, The Conversation
Truth may be the first casualty of war, but knowledge and expertise is all the more important.
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Gillian McFadyen, Aberystwyth University; Arddun Hedydd Arwyn, Aberystwyth University
The European response to Ukrainian refugees shows a system working mostly as it should, but some people are still left behind.
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Sarah Schiffling, Liverpool John Moores University; Wojciech D. Piotrowicz, Hanken School of Economics
Money is a far more effective way of helping the hundreds of thousands of refugees than sending food or clothing.
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WIlliam Niven, Nottingham Trent University
The site of the Babyn Yar memorial represents one of the worst atrocities of the second world war.
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Christoph Bluth, University of Bradford
Nato fears that an attempt to enforce a no-fly zone over Ukraine would inevitably escalate into war with Russia.
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Gavin Brown, University of Liverpool
What bitcoin giveth, it also takes away.
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