University of Cambridge says it gained from slave trade
London, UKReuters Britain’s University of Cambridge said on Thursday it had benefited from the proceeds of slavery over its history, and promised to expand scholarships for Black students and fund more research into the murderous trade. The acknowledgement comes as a string of leading institutions – from the Bank of England to the Church of […]
StrangeSights: Medieval friars struggled with hygiene; pumpkin rider attempts a new record; and, a lost time capsule…
DAVID ADAMS provides a round-up of some stories on the odder side of life…
StrangeSights: Getting away from it all; why a cowboy rides through the drive-through; and, Charles Darwin’s notebooks mysteriously reappear…
DAVID ADAMS provides a round-up of some stories on the odder side of life…
Millennials get little satisfaction from democracy – Cambridge study
London, UKReuters Young people are less satisfied with democracy and more disillusioned than at any other time in the past century, especially in Europe, North America, Africa and Australia, a study by the University of Cambridge has found. Millennials, or those born between 1981 and 1996, are more disillusioned than Generation X, those born between […]
Climate change turning Antarctica’s snow green
London, UKReuters Antarctica conjures images of an unbroken white wilderness but blooms of algae are giving parts of the frozen continent an increasingly green tinge. Warming temperatures due to climate change are helping the formation and spread of “green snow” and it is becoming so prolific in places that it is even visible from space, […]