Mark Cantrell's Blog, page 19

Culture: It’s time the publishing industry showed a little class

Diversity means little without working class representation.

Poem: Think On Fleshly Pleasure

Be mindful of the salacious sins of skin...

Culture: Northern accents are fading away, linguists warn

Northern accents are becoming much the same, linguists claim, but there is nothing to celebrate in this loss of diversity.

News: Acclaimed science fiction series Battlestar Galactica will stream on iPlayer

From next week, Battlestar Galactica will be broadcast on BBC Two and made available to watch on iPlayer as a box set.

Culture: Video games serve as powerful ‘gateway drug’ to reading, survey finds

Computer and video games are often condemned for their alleged harmful effects on young people.

Science: Brain circuitry essential for human language is far more ancient than first thought

Scientists have found that parts of the brain's architecture considered essential for the evolution of language are far more ancient than they first realised.

History: Bronze Age swords weren’t for show – they were tools for killing

Scientists find ancient weapons bear the marks of skilled fighters.

Silas Morlock: Hard metal in a post-digital age

There's something about the symbolism of Caxton’s typewriter that defies obsolescence...

Science: Scientists probe art of creating good head of beer

The lengths people will go for the perfect head of beer; scientists in Manchester have taken to zapping their pints with neutron beams.

News: Ministers too slow to save Britain’s culture from Covid-19 wasteland, say MPs

With Covid-19 posing an existential threat to Britain's creative industries, has the Government done enough to avert a “cultural catastrophe”?