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Dr Melissa Oldham (UCL Behavioural Science & Health) discusses how young people are choosing to drink less alcohol as concerns about associated health risks rise.
Haiti - Descent Into Anarchy
Professor Matthew J Smith (UCL History) explains the indemnity that Haiti was ordered to pay France after 1825 and the danged this caused to the Haitian economy and nation debt, still felt two decades later.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 ‘Haiti - Descent Into Anarchy’ (from 3 min, 21 sec)
US President Biden has called a meeting of G7 leaders
Dr Julie Norman (UCL Political Science) discusses the influence of the United States on Israel and Iran as President Biden convenes the G7.
Clone of Specific nasal cells protect against COVID-19 in children
Professor Marianna Obrist (UCL Computer Science) said: “The way we experience everyday life is for all our senses. Everything is multisensory.”
How to tell if you’re hooked on junk food – and what to do about it
Dr Chris van Tulleken (UCL Infection & Immunity) explains that many ultra-processed foods carefully balance opposing tastes which encourages us to accept far more of a particular ingredient such as salt or sugar, than we otherwise would.
Specific nasal cells protect against COVID-19 in children
Important differences in how the nasal cells of young and elderly people respond to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, could explain why children typically experience milder COVID-19 symptoms, finds a new study led by Dr Claire Smith (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health).
Read: BBC News; More: The Telegraph (£), US News & World Report, UCL News
All women should be having orgasms in midlife and beyond, and here's how to do it
Professor Joyce Harper (UCL EGA Institute for Women's Health) writes an article about the health benefits for women of maintaining an active sex life into middle age.
Concerns over major change to WhatsApp as parents fume kids are being put at risk
Dr Kaitlyn Regehr (UCL Information Studies) explains how private, or closed, Whatsapp groups can enable more extreme material being shared. She said: “Young people increasingly exist within digital echo chambers, which can normalise harmful rhetoric.”
Beatles book helps people with dementia rediscover joy of reading
Professor Gill Livingston (UCL Psychiatry) praised the project and explained that "most people with dementia can read but there are few books designed specifically for them”.
Israel faces a moment of reckoning in its decades-long clash with Iran
Dr Julie Norman (UCL Political Science) describes Netanyahu's response to Iranian missiles as “an escalatory attack that demands a response".