Cambridge Core BlogZebras make Africa’s longest land migration
Zebras make Africa’s longest land migration | Stories | WWF. In a groundbreaking study, a WWF-led team discovered Africa’s longest land mammal migration.…
Archive for May 2014
A Spaghetti Southern: Landscapes of Fear in Django Unchained
Recorded at this year’s British Association of American Studies Conference, the latest Journal of American Studies podcast offers the opportunity to hear Professor Rob Kroes deliver his lecture on the interaction of the “Western” and the “Southern” in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained.…
Policies of Personalisation in Norway and England: On the impact of political context
Based on an article by Karen Christensen and Doria Pilling from Journal of Social Policy Independence has become one of the Western world’s central ideas.…
Farming, feeding and formulating: The impact of multiphase feeding in pigs
The animal Article of the Month for May is entitled ‘The impact of daily multiphase feeding on animal performance, body composition, nitrogen and phosphorus excretions, and feed costs in growing–finishing pigs’
Bringing Human Rights Home
“All human beings…should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.” So reads Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).…
The problem of religious evil
The 2014 Religious Studies Postgraduate Essay Prize was recently awarded to two co-winners: Daniel Kodaj, of the Central European University and Ryan W.…
Consuming probiotics decreases the duration of common respiratory infections
A review collating the work of dozens of researchers across the world, published this week in the British Journal of Nutrition, found that consuming probiotics decreased the duration of common upper respiratory tract infections (RTI) by up to a day.…
Who’s Cooking? Habits of modern-day Americans
The May Nutrition Society Paper of the Month is from Public Health Nutrition and is entitled “Prevalence and patterns of cooking dinner at home in the USA: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2007-2008”.
