Category: Academic Analysis

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Muireann Quigley, Professor, Law, Medicine and Technology, University of Birmingham LBeddoe/Shutterstock.com In clinical trials around the world, a surprising treatment is showing promise for people with terminal illnesses: psychedelic therapy. For many, the hardest part of dying isn’t physical pain but the fear, anxiety and sense…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Sverre Spoelstra, Professor, Lund University Photo Agency/Shutterstock Tesla has announced it is offering its CEO Elon Musk a performance-based pay package worth US$1 trillion. That’s right: 12 zeros. To put this figure in perspective, it is double the amount of Musk’s existing fortune of US$500 billion…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Simon Trafford, Lecturer in Medieval History, School of Advanced Study, University of London Brambilla Simone/Shutterstock A group of friends sit around a table sharing stories and sipping mead. The men sport beards and the women sip from drinking horns – but these aren’t Vikings, they’re modern-day…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Emily Chiang, Research Associate, Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics, Aston University Shutterstock/nomad-photo.eu Shannon McCoole ran one of the world’s largest dark web child abuse forums for around three years in the early 2010s. The forum provided a secure online space in which those interested in abusing…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Bridget Storrie, Teaching Fellow, Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL marevgenna/Shutterstock The increasing number of injectable cosmetic treatments and fillers carried out around the world is driven by a seemingly universal need to look younger than we are. Most are administered to women, but a growing number…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Rahmat Poudineh, Honorary Research Associate, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group, University of Oxford shutterstock Piyaset / shutterstock Nearly a decade after the Paris agreement, the world is emitting more greenhouse gases than ever. Global emissions reached a record 53 billion tonnes in 2024 – about 10% higher…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Rivka Isaacson, Professor of Molecular Biophysics, King’s College London When I first began appropriating the plots of British-Irish novelist Iris Murdoch’s novels to explain scientific concepts, I never stopped to think about whether Murdoch herself would have approved of such an endeavour. As a professor of…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Pablo Uchoa, PhD Candidate in the Institute of the Americas, UCL The arrival of the world’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, in the Caribbean basin on November 11 has intensified fears of a large-scale conflict in the region. The carrier has been deployed…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Will Cook, Reader in Policy Evaluation, Manchester Metropolitan University Millions of British children live in poverty. Jun Huang/Shutterstock As she carefully prepares the UK’s reaction to her second budget the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has now hinted that she may be ready to scrap the two-child benefits…