Category: Academic Analysis
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Culture as a sustainable development goal? It’s starting to become a reality
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Ribio Nzeza Bunketi Buse, Assistant Professor, University of Kinshasa Eight global millennium development goals were established in 2000 by member states of the United Nations (UN) and endorsed by other multilateral organisations. They ranged from eliminating hunger to empowering women, and from reducing child mortality to…
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Trump was already cutting low-income energy assistance – the shutdown is making things worse as cold weather arrives
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Conor Harrison, Associate Professor of Economic Geography, University of South Carolina Home heating oil, used in furnaces across the Northeast, is expensive, leading some people to keep homes at unhealthy temperatures. AP Photo/Charles Krupa As fall turns to winter and temperatures begin to drop, millions…
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James Watson exemplified the best and worst of science – from monumental discoveries to sexism and cutthroat competition
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Andor J. Kiss, Director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, Miami University James Watson was both a towering and controversial figure in science. Gerhard Rauchwetter/picture alliance via Getty Images James Dewey Watson was an American molecular biologist most known for co-winning the 1962 Nobel…
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What to know as hundreds of flights are grounded across the US – an air travel expert explains
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Laurie A. Garrow, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Passengers walk through the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Nov. 7, 2025. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Major airports across the United States were subject to a 4% reduction in flights on Nov.…
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Moving abroad in your 20s can leave you with two identities – here’s how to cope
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Abisola Olawale, PhD candidate, Centre for Migration, Diaspora, Citizenship and Identity, University of the West of Scotland PeopleImages/Shutterstock Moving and living abroad is one of the most exhilarating experiences you can have as a young adult. For the tens of thousands of people on youth mobility…
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How authoritarian states sculpt a warped alternative reality in our news feeds
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Aiden Hoyle, Assistant Professor in Intelligence and Security, Institute for Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University When we talk about disinformation – the intentional spreading of misleading information – we usually picture blatant lies and “fake news” pushed by foreign governments. Sometimes the intention is to…
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Palestine 36 tells a forgotten story of revolt – and how the legacy of colonialism endures in Palestine
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Anne Irfan, Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender and Postcolonial Studies, UCL The great Palestinian revolt, which began in 1936 and lasted three years, was a pivotal event in the modern history of both the Middle East and the British empire. Often considered the biggest popular uprising…
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How a medieval Oxford friar used light and colour to find out what stars and planets are made of
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By William Crozier, Duns Scotus Assistant Professor of Franciscan Studies, Durham University During the 1240s, Richard Fishacre, a Dominican friar at Oxford University, used his knowledge of light and colour to show that the stars and planets are made of the same elements found here on Earth.…
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Daylight robbery? How London’s skyscrapers deprive marginalised people of light
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Casper Laing Ebbensgaard, Lecturer in Human Geography, University of East Anglia When you look at the promotional materials advertising luxury high-rise developments in London, it is obvious that the fantasy of living in the sky is fused by a desire for sunlight and “unobstructed” views of…
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AI is beating doctors at empathy – because we’ve turned doctors into robots
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jeremy Howick, Professor and Director of the Stoneygate Centre for Excellence in Empathic Healthcare, University of Leicester Iryna Pohrebna/Shutterstock.com Artificial intelligence has mastered chess, art and medical diagnosis. Now it’s apparently beating doctors at something we thought was uniquely human: empathy. A recent review published in…