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The story of Apollo and Daphne in Ovid’s Metamorphoses needs a new translation for the #MeToo era
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Alison Habens, Head of Creative Writing, University of Portsmouth Apollo and Daphne by John William Waterhouse (1908). Wiki Commons The story of Apollo and Daphne was written around the year zero by Roman poet Ovid in the Metamorphoses. Ovid was a trainee lawyer and student of…
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What work means to working-class young men in an age of increasing automation
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Richard Gater, Research Assistant at the Centre for Adult Social Care Research, Cardiff University For years we’ve been warned that technological advances and artificial intelligence (AI) are set to sweep people out of work. But when we think about whose jobs are really under threat, the…
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How does the world look through a spider’s eyes?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Christopher Terrell Nield, Senior Lecturer, Bioscience, Nottingham Trent University Hyllus diardi jumping spider – you’ll hear more about these spiders below. Magdalena Teterdynko/Shutterstock It’s a quiet autumn evening. You’re enjoying some TV, when an unscripted movement catches your eye. A large house spider (Tegenaria domestica) is…
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Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy handed five-year prison term for criminal conspiracy over Gaddafi money
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – France – By Vincent Sizaire, Maître de conférence associé, membre du centre de droit pénal et de criminologie, Université Paris Nanterre – Alliance Paris Lumières Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been found guilty of criminal conspiracy in a case related to the Libyan funding of his 2007 presidential…
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One Battle After Another: Sean Penn, Leonardo DiCaprio and Benicio Del Toro explore three visions of fatherhood
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Mark Gatto, Assistant Professor in Critical Organisation Studies, Northumbria University, Newcastle Warning: this article contains spoilers. In One Battle After Another, three characters (Bob Ferguson, Colonel Steven Lockjaw and Sergio St Carlos) represent three different models of fatherhood. Fatherhood is a timely theme. The place of…
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Half the UK’s fish stocks are overfished – but the evidence shows how they can be revived
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Callum Roberts, Professor of Marine Conservation, University of Exeter North-east Atlantic mackerel are being fished beyond sustainable limits. shocky/Shutterstock Most of the UK’s commercial fish stocks are not in a healthy state, according to a new landmark report. Marine conservation charity Oceana UK’s Deep Decline report…
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Will Rachel Reeves’ youth unemployment scheme force her to bend her own rules?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Maha Rafi Atal, Adam Smith Senior Lecturer in Political Economy, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow Jacob Lund/Shutterstock UK chancellor Rachel Reeves has set out a “youth guarantee” aimed at ending long-term unemployment among young people. Under the plan, a young person who…
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People trust podcasts more than social media. But is the trust warranted?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Jason Weismueller, Lecturer, UWA Business School, The University of Western Australia Medy Siregar/Unsplash There’s been a striking decline in public confidence in social media platforms, according to the 2025 Ethics Index published by the Governance Institute of Australia. One in four Australians now rate social…
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These 4 aeroplane failures are more common than you think – and not as scary as they sound
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Guido Carim Junior, Senior Lecturer in Aviation, Griffith University redcharlie/Unsplash “It is the closest all of us passengers ever want to come to a plane crash,” a Qantas flight QF1889’s passenger said after the plane suddenly descended about 20,000 feet on Monday September 22, and…
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Today’s AI hype has echoes of a devastating technology boom and bust 100 years ago
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Cameron Shackell, Sessional Academic, School of Information Systems, Queensland University of Technology A crowd gathers outside the New York Stock Exchange following the ‘Great Crash’ of October 1929. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, US Library of Congress The electrification boom of…
