William Wilde | Freelance Writer

Zadar is an ancient Croatian city and includes the ruins of a Roman forum (pictured above, (image by Palauenc05 via Wikimedia Commons). An enormous necropolis has been discovered beneath the city of Zadar on Croatia’s coast. It contains over 3,000 graves dating back to the Roman times, and was used for burials for over 500 years, from the 1st century BCE right through to the 5th century CE. The necropolis is likely to provide many years of research opportunities, revealing more about the...

Ancient dog remains discovered in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey (in red) share genetic similarities with other ancient samples found in Serbia and the UK (image by Mttll via Wikimedia Commons). Two papers published recently in Nature (by Marsh et al. and Bergström et al. have unearthed fascinating insights on the story of dog domestication. Remains found in Anatolia are approximately 5,000 years older than previously confirmed remains, pushing back the chronology on humans’...

Surrey Meeting Learns Why Group Wants Britain’s Law On Assisted Dying To Be Changed More than 50 people were welcomed to a meeting of the Dignity in Dying movement by national CEO Sarah Wootton, invited by the West Surrey branch chair Marie-Louise Papworth to her group’s fourth meeting, held at Surrey University on Monday (September 23). Ms Wootton outlined the aim of Dignity in Dying to new members and other in the audience, which is to campaign for a law change that would allow assisted dyin

Surrey’s Dignity In Dying Campaign Group Says Control is Taken From the Dying The West Surrey Dignity in Dying is holding its fourth meeting on Monday, September 23, at the University of Surrey. Eighty-four per cent of people in the UK support legalised assisted dying, shows a poll from leading research company Populus. That’s up from 82% at their last count. Sarah Wootton, CEO of campaign group Dignity in Dying, told the Guildford Dragon that a law change would put the decision of when to en

Challenger banks are capitalising on the shift and appealing to app-centric Millennials Forecasts suggest online banking will become more popular than visiting your local branch in the UK by 2021. So-called challenger banks are a driving force in the shift, taking customers from long-established brick and mortar organisations. Skipping out on a high street presence has allowed newcomers including Monzo, Revolut, Starling, and N26 to invest in tech which particularly appeals to the Millennial

As I’m sat at my desk on a weekday afternoon, my phone rings and I see it’s an incoming call from Be My Eyes. I connect via videochat to a young woman from the US who has low vision, and asks if I can help navigate logging into her computer. It’s unexpectedly restarted and she doesn’t recognise the interface. Within about a minute, we figure out the welcome screen and she’s back online. Be My Eyes is free for users and volunteers, and gives blind and low-vision people a new dimension of indepen

13th May sees the start of this year’s UK Mental Health Awareness Week, calling attention to one of the leading causes of disease burden in the world. While physical first aid is a long-established practice both in and out of work, the concept of mental health first aid is a newer one, and it’s gaining a lot of traction: It involves providing someone to speak to if an employee has a mental health issue, whether related to work or not. Advocates can also proactively step in and give urgent assis

On the night of 4th April, UK private sector companies with over 250 employees published their gender pay reports for the second year. Meanwhile in the United States, 2nd April is Equal Pay Day, the symbolic point where the average woman will have earned as much as her male counterparts did in the previous year. The gender pay gap issue is a multifaceted and deep-rooted one, encompassing societal norms, enduring transparency problems, and workplace phenomena such as salary secrecy. Race is also