Frank Furedi rt.com Frank Furedi is an author and social commentator. He is an emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Kent in Canterbury. Author of How Fear Works: The Culture of Fear in the 21st Century. Scrabble has followed Mr Potato Head and Barbie in trying to
The phrase “mind over matter” actually works in practice. When a problem becomes an obsession, resolution can be found in logically examining the facts and allowing the brain to counter an unpleasant physical reaction. Our brain is a powerful problem-solving tool. Every night since the government began distributing the
The word for today is… synonym (noun) – : one of two or more words or expressions of the same language that have the same or nearly the same meaning in some or all senses 2 : a word or phrase that by association is held to embody something (such as a concept
righttolife.org.uk A mother of an actor with Down’s syndrome says that she is “really thankful” that she was never offered pre-natal testing for Down’s syndrome. Tommy Jessop has Down’s syndrome and stars in the BBC’s crime drama Line of Duty. The plot is
The word for today is… perspective (noun, adjective) – noun 1a : a mental view or prospect b : a visible scene giving a distinctive impression of distance : vista 2a : the interrelation in which a subject or its parts are mentally viewed : point of view b : the capacity to view things in their
Andrew Urquhart University of Reading Dr Andrew Urquhart is Associate Professor of Finance at the ICMA Centre, Henley Business School. Dr Andrew joined the ICMA Centre in September 2018 and holds a PhD from Newcastle University where his thesis examined the Adaptive Market Hypothesis and investor sentiment in extreme circumstance.
The word for today is… organoleptic (adjective) – 1 : being, affecting, or relating to qualities (such as taste, color, odor, and feel) of a substance (such as a food or drug) that stimulate the sense organs 2 : involving use of the sense organs Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : English speakers first got
The word for today is… grandiloquence (noun) – : a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Grandiloquence, which first appeared in English in the late 16th century, is one of several English words pertaining to speech that derive from the Latin
The word for today is… turbid (adjective) – 1a : thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment b : heavy with smoke or mist 2a : deficient in clarity or purity b : characterized by or producing obscurity (as of mind or emotions) Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Turbid and “turgid” (which means
Time and again we see that there is very little confluence between the deeply-held beliefs of the left, and reality. From climate change to Black Lives Matter, nearly everything that your average leftist believes without question is absolutely counter to hard fact. The Earth is not “dangerously warming” and
It comes as no surprise that the artist in the middle of the rich-lister’s indecent assault case was burying his snout in the arts trough, even while on serious charges: While on bail and accused of imprisonable crimes, Mika X and organisations linked to him were granted thousands
The word for today is… deference (noun) – respect and esteem due a superior or an elder Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : The words deference and defer both derive from the Latin deferre, which means “to bring down” or “to carry away.” At the same time you might also hear that defer
Louis Armstrong famously said, “If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know”. It was, in short, a question of faith: you just knew it when you felt it. The same is true, in a not-so-different way, of God and the soul. The Bible describes
Caitlin Clark Colorado State University Whether baked as chips into a cookie, melted into a sweet warm drink or molded into the shape of a smiling bunny, chocolate is one of the world’s most universally consumed foods. Even the biggest chocolate lovers, though, might not recognize what this ancient
Sean Lang Anglia Ruskin University The death of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh marks the end of a chapter not just for the British royal family – but for European monarchy itself. Philip belonged to that cosmopolitan world of interrelated royals that had ruled Europe before the first world war
Peter Martin Crawford School of Public Policy Australian National University Peter Martin is Business and Economy Editor of The Conversation and a Visiting Fellow at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. A former Commonwealth Treasury official, he has worked as Economics Correspondent for the ABC,
