MYSTERIOUS: 25 | Mind Blowing Facts

Visible for diversity, invisible in research: the burdens Black female academics face in universities

Black women are underrepresented in senior roles in British academia. As of May 2024, there were only 70 Black women professors.

The Conversation · Dec 11, 2025

Food for thought: Italian culinary traditions make UNESCO intangible cultural heritage list

Italian cooking and its biocultural diversity has been recognised by UNESCO on its list of intangible cultural heritage, in a world first. The move rewards how the country celebrates cuisine as a communal activity and applauds its anti-waste approach to recipes.

Euronews · Dec 10, 2025

Australian employers cut back on diversity and inclusion programs amid US ‘anti-woke’ backlash

Executives tell Pride in Diversity report Donald Trump’s election ‘opened the floodgates’ to challenge DEI initiatives, including in Australia

The Guardian - AU · Dec 10, 2025

Drag queen Pattie Gonia completes 100-mile trek raising $1m to make outdoors more ‘equitable’

Drag queen, environmentalist, diversity and inclusion advocate and social media star arrives in San Francisco

The Guardian - US · Dec 6, 2025

John Swinney defends immigration as Scotland faces rise of Reform

Exclusive: First minister mounts robust defence of diversity as SNP prepares campaign for Holyrood election in May

The Guardian - UK · Dec 6, 2025

Plaintiff Can Add Claims to Case Alleging Carnegie Mellon Prof Said Time on Jewish-Related Project "Would Have Been Better Spent" Exploring "What Jews Do to Make Themselves Such a Hated Group"

One claim is that CMU's Chief Diversity Officer illegally recorded meeting with student and the accused professor—and then apparently "asserted her Fifth Amendment rights when ... asked her if she did so or if she had a pattern or practice of recording student meetings, without their consent, in the scope…

Reason · Dec 5, 2025

Jordan Banjo and Perri Kiely announce departure from breakfast radio show

The pair have hosted Kiss Breakfast for more than five years.

Evening Standard · Dec 4, 2025

Bill de Blasio's Diversity Push for These Schools Lowered Admissions Standards—and Didn't Increase Diversity

New data display the failures of the expanded Discovery Program.

Reason · Dec 3, 2025

Limiting jury trials will harm minority ethnic victims and defendants, research shows

The right to trial by jury dates back to at least the 12th century. The government’s proposals to limit it in England and Wales, many argue, run counter to the UK’s core democratic principles. And as others have pointed out, scrapping jury trials for some crimes is unlikely to solve…

The Conversation · Dec 3, 2025

How European colonisation has created more animal hybrids

Humans have moved plants and animals well beyond their native ranges, across barriers that normally prevent dispersal. As a result, people have increased the rates of hybridisation between populations that were once isolated for thousands, or even millions, of years.

The Conversation · Dec 3, 2025