Balancing tourism and conservation in the Galapagos: local empowerment may be the key
Taylor Bi explores the conflicting priorities of tourists and residents in the Galapagos, and how local empowerment may resolve this clash.
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Give it a whirl: Promoting healthy ageing through dance
Sophie Basarrate discusses the physical and cognitive benefits of dance in combatting the negative aspects of an ageing population.
Re-imagining climate justice for humans and more-than-humans
Ushika Kidd explores a discussion with Sophie Chao, an environmental anthropologist who calls for decolonisation of climate change.
Discovering the stars: The need for gender equality in space
Olivia Allen discusses the gender inequality experienced by Bell Burnell, notably how her discovery gave her male colleagues a Nobel Prize.
To capture time: Investigating timekeeping, collecting, and colonialism at Oxford’s History of Science Museum
Julia Granato explores the colonial history of many exhibitions in Britain and how a new exhibit at Oxford is trying to acknowledge its past.
Lost legacies: Western medicine’s appropriation of Indigenous psychedelic wisdom
Athina Metaxa explores how the Western psychedelic renaissance can threaten Indigenous communities and initiatives created to mitigate such.
More than a diagnosis: recognising FASD
Lily Massey discusses common consequences, vulnerabilities and upbringings associated with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder.
Redefining mental health: the rise of computational psychiatry
SungJun Cho delves into the challenges of modern psychiatry and how computational psychiatry may alleviate these problems.
To believe or not believe: Does free will exist?
Divya Prasad explores arguments against free will yet how the belief that we do hold some power over decisions may be better for individuals.
The missing microbe
Ilke Boran reports on the role of the gut microbiome in crucial biological processes, and how social factors impacts its composition.