Category: Analysis
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Fifteen books to help children learn about women’s place in history
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Rachael Attwood, Programme Leader for History, Department of Humanities, University of Westminster wavebreakmedia/Shutterstock Research by charity End Sexism in Schools has found that over half of history lessons delivered to children aged 11 to 14 in England feature no women at all. With the government set…
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Book of Kells: exploring the evidence that points to Pictish origins in north-east Scotland
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Rachel Moss, Professor in the History of Art and Architecture, Trinity College Dublin Writing in the early 20th century, the celebrated author James Joyce noted that the Book of Kells – an illuminated manuscript depicting the four gospels of the New Testament in Latin – was…
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Le Carré, Bacchae and radical feminist punk art – what to see and watch this week
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Naomi Joseph, Arts + Culture Editor, The Conversation John le Carré was a master of the spy novel – not by glamorising espionage, but by stripping it of illusion. His stories abandoned the trope of the suave, heartless agent in favour of morally complex characters navigating…
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Manchester synagogue attack: why so many people in Britain’s Jewish community felt a sense of inevitability that this day would come
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Julian Hargreaves, Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology, City St George’s, University of London A man believed to be Jihad Al-Shamie, a 35-year-old British citizen born in Syria, has been shot dead by police after launching an attack on a synagogue in Manchester on Yom…
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Commuters have bemoaned Philly’s public transit for decades − in 1967, a librarian got the city to listen
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Menika Dirkson, Associate Professor of History, Morgan State University A SEPTA train moves along the Market-Frankford Line in West Philadelphia. AP Photo/Matt Rourke On April 13, 1967, around 1:30 p.m., Lt. Joseph Larkin of the Philadelphia Police Department’s subway unit visited the Philadelphia High School for…
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Toxic pollution builds up in snake scales: what we learnt from black mambas
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Cormac Price, Post-doctoral fellow the HerpHealth lab, office 218, Building G23. Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University; University of KwaZulu-Natal Black mambas (Dendroaspis polylepis) are Africa’s longest, most famous venomous snakes. Despite their fearsome reputation, these misunderstood snakes are vital players in their ecosystems.…
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Children can be systematic problem-solvers at younger ages than psychologists had thought – new research
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Celeste Kidd, Professor of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley How do kids figure out how to sort things by order? Celeste Kidd I’m in a coffee shop when a young child dumps out his mother’s bag in search of fruit snacks. The contents spill onto the…
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Science costs money – research is guided by who funds it and why
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Ryan Summers, Associate Professor of Science Education, University of North Dakota NSF is one federal agency that funds a wide range of basic science research. Nicole Fuller/National Science Foundation, CC BY Scientists have always needed someone to help foot the bill for their work. In the…
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Virtual particles: How physicists’ clever bookkeeping trick could underlie reality
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Dipangkar Dutta, Professor of Nuclear Physics, Mississippi State University Scientists imagine virtual particles popping in and out of existence to explain how forces transfer between particles. koto_feja/iStock via Getty Images A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of…
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‘AI actor’ Tilly Norwood is dividing Hollywood – but real acting requires humanity
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Nicholas Scrivens, Programme Leader – MA Musical Theatre, University of Surrey Tilly Norwood is the hottest actor in Hollywood right now. Her career has been covered by Variety, the BBC and Forbes, to name just a few publications. All of this is publicity that a young…