Category: Academic Reportage

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Arn Keeling, Professor, Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland Giant Mine, just north of Yellowknife, N.W.T., in September 2011. The gold mine officially opened in 1948 and was operational for over 50 years before it was closed in 2004. (John Sandlos) Decades of gold mining…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Paa Kwesi Wolseley Prah, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dublin City University Ghana stands out in west Africa as a nation that has not experienced terrorist attacks, even though it’s geographically close to countries that have. In Burkina Faso, Mali and Nigeria, extremist groups such as Boko Haram…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Jonathan Salerno, Associate Professor, Colorado State University, Colorado State University Protecting livestock in areas where large carnivores (like lions) live is increasingly important as human land use expands, wildlife habitat shrinks, and climatic changes reshape the ways in which humans and wildlife interact. Protecting the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Johan Ferreira, Professor, University of the Witwatersrand Photo by Markus Krisetya via Unsplash Statistics professor Johan Ferreira was feeling overwhelmed by the amount of “screen time” involved in online learning in 2021. He imagined students must be feeling the same way, and wondered what he could…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Ruchika Gupta, Assistant Professor and Medical Microbiologist, Department of Pathobiology and Lab Medicine, London Health Sciences Centre and Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest health threats we face today. It’s often blamed on the overuse of antibiotics,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Chris Houser, Professor in Department of Earth and Environmental Science, and Dean of Science, University of Waterloo Malcolm-Jamal Warner, the actor who played Theo Huxtable on The Cosby Show, has drowned on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast. It is reported that he was swimming at Playa Cocles…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Judy Illes, Professor, Neurology, University of British Columbia Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating neurological disorder of unknown cause, in which motor nerve cells of the brain and spinal cord that transmit signals to muscles progressively degenerate. This weakens limbs and affects speech, swallowing and…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Younes Ben Zaied, Full Professor in Finance, EDC Paris Business School Gas pipelines can be dangerous to human health even if people don’t damage them by digging. Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images The Trump administration is decreasing the attention federal regulators pay to…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Tracy Gleason, Professor of Psychology, Wellesley College What would an imaginary companion add to a child’s solo practice? Elkhophoto/iStock via Getty Images Plus The coach, the specialized equipment, the carefully tailored exercise regimen – they’re all key to athletic performance. But imagination might be an unexpected…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Jennifer Duyne Barenstein, Senior Lecturer of Social Anthropology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Located in the Peñarol neighborhood of Montevideo, COVIMT 1 was the city’s first mutual aid housing cooperative. It was founded by textile workers, who completed construction of the complex in 1972.…