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Birds all over the world use the same sound to warn of threats
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By William Feeney, Research fellow, Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University; Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC) An angry Australian Superb Fairy-wren confronting a Horsfield’s bronze-cuckoo. David Ongley Language enables us to connect with each other and coordinate to achieve incredible feats. Our ability to communicate abstract…
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Hamas and Israel are on the verge of a ceasefire. What’s being left unsaid, though, could scupper the deal
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Martin Kear, Sessional Lecturer, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney Hamas announced that it has accepted several parts of the peace plan put forth by US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to finally end Israel’s war on Gaza.…
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Taylor Swift’s Father Figure isn’t a cover, but an ‘interpolation’. What that means – and why it matters
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Timothy McKenry, Professor of Music, Australian Catholic University On Taylor Swift’s highly-anticipated new album The Life of a Showgirl, track four, Father Figure, includes the late George Michael as one of the credited songwriters. But Swift’s song is not a cover of Michael’s 1987 hit…
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Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland, set in 1984, is translated for the Trump era in One Battle After Another
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Alexander Howard, Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney Warner Brothers Perennial Nobel Prize contender Thomas Pynchon’s fourth novel, Vineland (1990) has been loosely adapted by Paul Thomas Anderson as a new film, One Battle After Another. The film is already considered…
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Is Sanae Takaichi Japan’s Margaret Thatcher — or its next Liz Truss?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Sebastian Maslow, Associate Professor, International Relations, Contemporary Japanese Politics & Society, University of Tokyo Under the slogan “#ChangeLDP”, Japan’s long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has elected Sanae Takaichi as its new leader. Pending a vote in the Diet’s lower house later this month, she is…
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Why are the ICJ and ICC cases on Israel and Gaza taking so long?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Melanie O’Brien, Associate Professor of International Law, The University of Western Australia In September this year, a UN-backed independent commission of inquiry released a report concluding Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The report said: Israeli authorities deliberately inflicted conditions of life on the Palestinians…
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Does AI pose an existential risk? We asked 5 experts
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Aaron J. Snoswell, Senior Research Fellow in AI Accountability, Queensland University of Technology Sean Gladwell/Getty Images There are many claims to sort through in the current era of ubiquitous artificial intelligence (AI) products, especially generative AI ones based on large language models or LLMs, such…
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Synagogue attack: the Manchester I know – by antisemitism researcher and Mancunian Jew
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Tony Kushner, James Parkes Professor of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton On the surface, I am ideally suited to write about the terrorist atrocity on the Heaton Park synagogue. The attack, on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur, left two Mancunian Jews…
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Why is Canada quiet on the International Criminal Court while recognizing Palestine?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Laszlo Sarkany, Assistant Professor, Political Science, Western University Canada has formally recognized the state of Palestine, drawing the ire of United States President Donald Trump. At the same time, the U.S. is continuing to oppose the International Criminal Court (ICC) by sanctioning several of its judges,…
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Politically aggressive social media users are creating most of the anti-immigrant content
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Nicholas A. R. Fraser, Senior Research Associate , Toronto Metropolitan University Most of us, whether we admit it or not, engage in a great deal of passive scrolling through social media daily. And while the platforms have proliferated for years, experts are only now beginning to…