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Netflix’s A House of Dynamite sounds the nuclear alarm, but how worried should we be?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Mark Lacy, Senior Lecturer, School of Global Affairs, Lancaster University As a teenager in the 1980s, I was shown a BBC drama in school called Threads that depicted the impact of a nuclear strike on a city in northern England. Threads is a brutal vision of…
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In drug trials, lack of oversight of research ethics boards could put Canadian patients at risk
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Joel Lexchin, Associate professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto; York University, Canada; University of Sydney Research ethics boards are supposed to ensure that, among other things, patients understand the nature of the research and have given informed consent. (Unsplash/Nappy) New drug approvals…
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How global cross-cultural folklore and legends shape the monsters we fear
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Amala Poli, PhD in English (Medical/ Health Humanities), Western University It’s that time of year again when you grab a tub of popcorn and settle in for a cozy evening with a familiar slasher film — a haunted house, a masked villain and the perfect jump…
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Why Canadians need two dramatic educational shifts to honour reconciliation
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Jennifer Wallner, Associate Professor, School of Political Studies, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa When speaking about Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Mazina Giizhik — also known as Justice Murray Sinclair — often declared: “Education has gotten us into this mess, and education will get us out.” Sinclair…
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‘Hallucinated’ cases are affecting lawyers’ careers – they need to be trained to use AI
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Craig Smith, Lecturer in Law, University of Salford Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock Generative artificial intelligence, which produces original content by drawing on large existing datasets, has been hailed as a revolutionary tool for lawyers. From drafting contracts to summarising case law, generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and Lexis+…
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After the first world war, séances boomed – and dead soldiers ‘wrote’ home
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Alice Vernon, Lecturer in Creative Writing and 19th-Century Literature, Aberystwyth University A typical séance in the 1920s. The Graphic, CC BY-SA In March 1915, a young British man named Raymond Lodge was deployed to Ypres, France, to fight on the front lines of the first world…
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Climate change is becoming an insurance crisis
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Meilan Yan, Senior Lecturer in Financial Economics, Loughborough University oleschwander/Shutterstock Imagine waking up to find your living room underwater for the second time in five years. You try to claim insurance, only to be told your property is now uninsurable. Premiums have tripled. Your mortgage lender…
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How the first animals evolved – a new clue from a tiny relative
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Max Telford, Jodrell Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, UCL The next time you go wild swimming, whether in a lake, river or sea, you are probably sharing the water with one of your tiniest, yet closest relatives. This near-family member is a microscopic, single-celled organism…
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Keeping up with the Kardashians? Why owning more can leave us feeling less
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Cathrine Jansson-Boyd, Professor of Consumer Psychology, Anglia Ruskin University The Kardashians are back with a new season of their reality series The Kardashians on Disney Plus. As a researcher of consumer psychology, I have written about consumer neuroscience and how brands and media shape behaviour and…
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Why are 4.7 million Floridians insured through ACA marketplace plans, and what happens if they lose their subsidies?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Robert Applebaum, Senior Research Scholar, Scripps Gerontology Center, Miami University 4.7 million Floridians use health insurance plans obtained from the ACA marketplace. Joe Raedle/Getty Images News Significant Figures is a series from The Conversation in which scholars explain an important number in the news. The…