How parents' resources shape their children’s attitudes to the future

Nov 04, 2018 14:15 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

Everyones family background has affected them, for better or worse. In the UK today, it is difficult for young people to get a good job, and this means that families are having to provide more support for young people. In...

Think you're bad at math? You may suffer from 'math trauma'

Nov 04, 2018 13:20 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

I teach people how to teach math, and Ive been working in this field for 30 years. Across those decades, Ive met many people who suffer from varying degrees of math trauma a form of debilitating mental shutdown when it...

Are you a bully? Here's how to tell

Nov 04, 2018 13:16 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

From the playground to parliament, bullying exists everywhere. In fact, a recent report into bullying in UKs parliament revealed just how serious this problem is, urging behavioural change among MPs. But why is bullying so...

What drives police violence in Ghana, and what can be done about it

Nov 04, 2018 13:15 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

Student protests in Ghana resulted in the temporary closure of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. The cause: police use of force in the arrest of students following a vigil to protest the possibility...

How speculative fiction gained literary respectability

Nov 04, 2018 13:10 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

I count myself lucky. Weird, I know, in this day and age when all around us the natural and political world is going to hell in a handbasket. But that, in fact, may be part of it. Back when I started writing, realism...

There's a reason your child wants to read the same book over and over again

Nov 04, 2018 13:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

We often hear about the benefits of reading storybooks at bedtime for promoting vocabulary, early literacy skills, and a good relationship with your child. But the experts havent been in your home, and your child requests...

How Mirka and Georges Mora fled the Holocaust and created bohemia across the world

Oct 31, 2018 13:07 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

Book Review: Mirka Georges, A Culinary Affair (MUP). Launched in the year of Mirka Moras 90th birthday - and sadly, her death - Mirka Georges, A Culinary Affair is a lovely book about two very influential figures in...