The Covid-19 crisis gave science journalism an edge, rescuing it from the sidelines of media interest and placing it neck to neck with the traditional ‘hard news’ journalism that usually occupies front pages and attracts the most clicks on websites.
The sheer scale of the pandemic demanded global attention, and medical professionals flocked to media platforms to provide audiences with the latest coronavirus developments, guidelines, and warnings. But science journalism, especially subsections such as medical journalism, is a field that was growing steadily before the Covid 19 crisis.
In fact, science media deals with a wide range of popular pre-pandemic topics such as climate change, natural disasters, astronomy, and inventions in physics, chemistry, biology, diseases, viruses, and more. Science content is usually in the form of summaries of significant research results. But it is often powerful enough to affect public opinion and catalyse political action on critical socia
The evil stepmother has been a classic literary trope in the fairy tales of old, including Cinderella, Snow White and Hansel and Gretel.
But while Cinderella had a difficult upbringing – abused by a cruel stepmother – a new study suggests she may have outlived her evil stepsisters.
Researchers from East Carolina University, looked at data from more than 400,000 individuals born between 1847 and 1940 in the state of Utah.
Regardless of the gender of their remarried parent, stepchildren were shown to have lower rates of mortality than non-stepchildren, the researchers found.
The evil stepmother Lady Tremaine, who has two daughters of her own, Drizella (left) and Anastasia (right) in the Disney adaptation. Inspired by portrayals of stepmothers, researchers investigated survival differences between stepchildren and their step-siblings
Childcare in COVID – why social support for mothers and their children has never been more relevant
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Dr Abigail Page, Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Dr Abigail Page, Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine https://lshtm.ac.uk/themes/custom/lshtm/images/lshtm-logo-black.png Friday 30 April 2021
Guest editing a special issue of leading Royal Society journal, Phil Trans B, Abigail Page and colleagues explore why childcare support is mother-centric, and the potential impact it can have on the mother and child’s health and wellbeing – particularly during a pandemic
Michael J. O’Brien was born in Houston in 1950 and graduated from St. Thomas High School in Houston in 1968.
His undergraduate degree is from Rice University (1972) and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin (1977). After graduation he served as a research associate at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln until 1980, when he joined the University of Missouri as an assistant professor of anthropology and director of the American Archaeology Division, the research arm of the anthropology department. He became director of the Museum of Anthropology several years later and joined the College of Arts and Science dean’s office as associate dean for research. He was promoted to the rank of professor in 1989 and became dean of arts and science in 2006 following a national search.