Category: Analysis
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Would you eat a grasshopper? In Oaxaca, it’s been a tasty tradition for thousands of years
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Jeffrey H. Cohen, Professor of Anthropology, The Ohio State University Billions of people regularly eat insects. In the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, chapulines – toasted grasshoppers – stand out as a beloved seasonal treat that follows the start of the rainy season, a period…
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Why do big oil companies invest in green energy?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Michael Oxman, Professor of the Practice of Sustainable Business, Georgia Institute of Technology A flare burns natural gas at an oil well on Aug. 26, 2021, in Watford City, N.D. AP Photo/Matthew Brown Some major oil companies such as Shell and BP that once were…
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Muslim men have often been portrayed as ‘terrorists’ or ‘fanatics’ on TV shows, but Muslim-led storytelling is trying to change that narrative
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Tazeen M. Ali, Assistant Professor of Religion and Politics, Washington University in St. Louis Hulu’s comedy-drama series ‘Ramy,’ created by actor-comedian Ramy Youssef, follows a young Egyptian-American Muslim navigating life’s challenges. Youssef, center, appears at a press conference in 2019. Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images For…
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Calling deaths ‘preventable’ can obscure barriers to health care access and shift blame to individuals
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Zachary W. Schulz, Senior Lecturer of History, Auburn University Deaths from so-called preventable causes often follow familiar policy lines. Tonpor Kasa/iStock via Getty Images Plus Each year in the U.S., tens of thousands of deaths are categorized as “preventable” — meaning, in theory, they did…
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How Luxembourg detects microbes in its water supply before they pose a health risk
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jean-Baptiste Burnet, Lead R&T Scientist, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) Microbes in water are like invisible travellers – and some carry disease with them. Keeping the water that flows through our treatment plants, rivers and taps healthy and safe from microbial infection is a…
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Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, says UN commission. But will it make any difference?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Malak Benslama-Dabdoub, Lecturer in law, Royal Holloway University of London The UN’s independent international commission of inquiry has just released a report that may go down as one of the most significant documents in modern international law. After nearly two years of investigation, the commission has…
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What NATO could learn from Ukraine as it navigates Russian threats to European security
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By James Horncastle, Assistant Professor and Edward and Emily McWhinney Professor in International Relations, Simon Fraser University Russian drones recently violated Polish and Romanian airspace. These intrusions, whether intentional or not, caused Poland to shut down airports and both Polish and Romanian officials deployed their air forces.…
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Your immune system attacks drugs like it does viruses – paradoxically offering a way to improve cancer treatment
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Tom Anchordoquy, Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Researchers are studying the potential of gold nanoparticles (yellow dots) to deliver drugs into the body. Veronika Sapozhnikova, Konstantin Sokolov, Rebecca Richards-Kortum/M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and Rice University via NIH/Flickr When the first cells…
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Mars rovers serve as scientists’ eyes and ears from millions of miles away – here are the tools Perseverance used to spot a potential sign of ancient life
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Ari Koeppel, Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Scientist and Adjunct Associate, Dartmouth College Scientists absorb data on monitors in mission control for NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. NASA/Bill Ingalls, CC BY-NC-ND NASA’s search for evidence of past life on Mars just produced an exciting update. On Sept. 10, 2025,…
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How a fly sees the world – and why understanding its vision can help prevent disease
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Roger Santer, Lecturer in Zoology, Aberystwyth University What do you look like to a house fly? Lee Hua Ming/Shutterstock Jakob von Uexküll was a Baltic German biologist ahead of his time, intrigued by the idea that animals inhabit unique perceptual worlds quite unlike our own. In…