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New polling: Reform is winning over Britain’s Christian support
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Stuart Fox, Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Exeter When we look at how people vote in elections and why they choose certain parties, analysis often focuses on age, education, location or socioeconomic status. Less discussed in Britain is religion. But close to two-thirds of its…
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Distorted sound of the early universe suggests we are living in a giant void
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Indranil Banik, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Astrophysics, University of Portsmouth Baryon acoustic oscillations represent the sound of the Big Bang. Gabriela Secara, Perimeter Institute, CC BY-SA Looking up at the night sky, it may seem our cosmic neighbourhood is packed full of planets, stars and galaxies.…
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After 160 years of Welsh settlement in Patagonia, Indigenous voices are finally being heard
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Geraldine Lublin, Associate Professor in Spanish, Swansea University The first Welsh settlers landed on the shores of what is today the Province of Chubut, in Argentinean Patagonia, on 28 July 1865. Carried on the ship Mimosa, this was the first of a series of immigrant contingents…
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Water wars: a historic agreement between Mexico and US is ramping up border tension
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Natasha Lindstaedt, Professor in the Department of Government, University of Essex As climate change drives rising temperatures and changes in rainfall, Mexico and the US are in the middle of a conflict over water, putting an additional strain on their relationship. Partly due to constant droughts,…
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A big night for women’s football – what you should watch, see and read this week
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Naomi Joseph, Arts + Culture Editor The feelings that surged through the pub that I watched the women’s Euro 2022 cup final in were electric. England had won. My friends were in tears. Strangers were shaking hands, patting each other on the back, smiling goofily at…
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‘Then the city started to burn, the fires were chasing me’ – 80 years on, Hiroshima survivors describe how the atomic blast echoed down generations
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Elizabeth Chappell, Affiliated Researcher, The Open University I’m not sure if it was the effect of the atomic bomb, but I have always had a weak body, and when I was born, the doctor said I wouldn’t last more than three days. These are the words…
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Trump’s push for more deportations could boost demand for foreign farmworkers with ‘guest worker’ visas
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Scott Morgenstern, Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh Mexican farmworkers with H-2A visas weed a North Carolina tobacco field in 2016. Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images The U.S. has an important choice to make regarding agriculture. It can import more people to pick crops…
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How bachata rose from Dominican Republic’s brothels and shantytowns to become a global sensation
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Wilfredo José Burgos Matos, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, Lehman College, CUNY Once viewed by elites with disdain, bachata has become popular worldwide. Erika Santelices/AFP via Getty Images What began as songs about heartbreak in the brothels and barrios of the…
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The 3 worst things you can say after a pet dies, and what to say instead
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Brian N. Chin, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Trinity College Loss of a pet falls into what researchers call disenfranchised grief in which the pain is often minimized or discounted. Claudia Luna/iStock via Getty Images Plus I saw it firsthand after my cat Murphy died earlier…
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Fears that falling birth rates in US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Leslie Root, Assistant Professor of Research, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado Boulder Unfortunately for demographers, birth rates are hard to predict far into the future. gremlin/E+ via Getty Images Pronatalism – the belief that low birth rates are a problem that must be…