Category: Academic Analysis
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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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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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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…
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CDC’s ability to prevent injuries like drowning, traumatic brain injury and falls is severely compromised by Trump cuts
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Greta Massetti, Professor of Population Health Sciences, Georgia State University Motor vehicle crashes kill more than 40,000 people in the U.S. every year. Cavan Images/Getty Images Much has been written about the unprecedented impact that the second Trump administration has had on the Centers for…
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Rediscovery of African American burial grounds provides long-overdue opportunities for collective healing
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Joanna Gilmore, Adjunct Professor in Museum Studies and Bioarchaeology, College of Charleston In the course of construction work in 2013, the remains of 36 individuals of African descent were uncovered in the heart of downtown Charleston, South Carolina. They had lain hidden for some 200…
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Washington state settles controversy over child abuse law that tested the limits of ‘priest-penitent’ privilege
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Ann M Murphy, Professor of Law, Gonzaga University Under church law, Catholic priests are forbidden from breaking the ‘seal of confession.’ Miguel Sotomayor/Moment via Getty Images For months, a Washington state bill generated controversy over two critical interests: protecting children from abuse and protecting the…
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How Hershey’s chocolate survived an attack from Mars − and adopted a business strategy alien to its founder
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By John Haddad, Professor of American Studies, Penn State Hershey’s chocolates are made in Hershey, Pa., a town once considered an industrial utopia. Gary Burke/Moment Collection via Getty Images Walk into any grocery store to stock up for Halloween and you will discover that, for chocolate…
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SNAP benefit freeze will leave millions nationwide struggling to pay for food – including 472,711 people in Philadelphia
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Félice Lê-Scherban, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Drexel University Currently, SNAP benefits average just over $6 per person per day. Catherine McQueen/Moment Collection via Getty Images The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, is the largest, most effective tool the U.S. has to reduce food insecurity.…
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Agricultural drones are taking off globally, saving farmers time and money
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Ben Belton, Professor of International Development, Michigan State University A farmer in China operates a drone to spray fertilizer on fields. Wang Huabin/VCG via Getty Images Drones have become integrated into everyday life over the past decade – in sectors as diverse as entertainment, health…