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Horseflies and wasps and jellyfish – how to stay safe from stings and bites this summer
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Dan Baumgardt, Senior Lecturer, School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol Anna Kuzmenko/Shutterstock Despite the glorious arrival of summer, there’s definitely a sting in the season’s tail – quite literally. Even in the UK, it’s not just sunburn we need to watch out for.…
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Cleaner air in east Asia may have driven recent acceleration in global warming, our new study indicates
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Laura Wilcox, Professor, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading A traffic jam in Beijing in China, where air pollution has drastically reduced. Hung Chung Chih/Shutterstock Global warming has picked up pace since around 2010, leading to the recent string of record warm years.…
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Trump’s Brazil tariffs point more to his enduring bond with far-right Bolsonaro than economic concerns
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Rafael R. Ioris, Professor of Modern Latin America History, University of Denver U.S. President Donald Trump and then-Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro attend a joint news conference at the White House on March 19, 2019. Jim Lo Scalzo-Pool/Getty Images After much back-and-forth over several months, President…
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University graduates in Ghana must serve society for a year – study suggests it’s good for national unity
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Arnim Langer, Professor, KU Leuven Almost 70 years after independence was gained across the continent, many African countries continue to face the complex task of managing ethnic diversity and building national cohesion. National cohesion is a broad and often abstract concept. It refers to the extent…
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Bullying, violence and vandalism in primary school: study explores a growing crisis in South Africa
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Julie Shantone Rubbi Nunan, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Early Childhood Education and Development, University of South Africa South African primary schools are facing a crisis. Every day, learners fight, bully, destroy property, and intimidate other learners and teachers, turning what should be safe spaces…
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4 things every peace agreement needs – and how the DRC-Rwanda deal measures up
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Philipp Kastner, Senior Lecturer in International Law, The University of Western Australia The governments of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda concluded a peace treaty in June 2025, aimed at ending a decades-long war in eastern DRC. The United Nations welcomed the…
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Is there any hope for the internet?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Aarushi Bhandari, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Davidson College Hate and mental illness fester online because love and healing seem to be incompatible with profits. Ihor Lukianenko/iStock via Getty Images In 2001, social theorist bell hooks warned about the dangers of a loveless zeitgeist. In “All…
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Listening to nonhumans: What music can teach about humanity’s relationships with nature and the divine
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Jeffers Engelhardt, Professor of Music, Amherst College Members of the Alevi Muslim community perform a ritual semah dance during celebrations for Norooz, or the Persian New Year, in Berlin. Adam Berry/Getty Images As someone who teaches and researches music and religion, I’ve always been curious…
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How Eurostack could offer Canada a route to digital independence from the United States
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Ted Palys, Professor of Criminology, Associate Member of Dept. of Indigenous Studies, Simon Fraser University The contemporary internet has been with us since roughly 1995. Its current underlying economic model — surveillance capitalism — began in the early 2000s, when Google and then Facebook realized how…
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Most Pennsylvania voters ignore judicial elections − a political scientist explains why they matter, especially in a battleground state
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Daniel J. Mallinson, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Administration, Penn State Three of the seven judges on PA’s state supreme court are up for retention votes in November 2025. AP Photo/Matt Rourke This November, there will be no candidate for president, governor, senator or even…