Category: Analysis
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Your dog can read your mind – sort of
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Laura Elin Pigott, Senior Lecturer in Neurosciences and Neurorehabilitation, Course Leader in the College of Health and Life Sciences, London South Bank University Dmytro Zinkevych/Shutterstock.com Your dog tilts its head when you cry, paces when you’re stressed, and somehow appears at your side during your worst…
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By building the world’s biggest dam, China hopes to control more than just its water supply
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Tom Harper, Lecturer in International Relations, University of East London China’s already vast infrastructure programme has entered a new phase as building work starts on the Motuo hydropower project. The dam will consist of five cascade hydropower stations arranged from upstream to downstream and, once completed,…
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Cricket’s great global divide: elite schools still shape the sport
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Habib Noorbhai, Professor (Health & Sports Science), University of Johannesburg If you were to walk through the corridors of some of the world’s leading cricket schools, you might hear the crack of leather on willow long before the bell for the end of the day rings.…
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The African activists who challenged colonial-era slavery in Lagos and the Gold Coast
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Michael E Odijie, Associate Professor, University of Oxford When historians and the public think about the end of domestic slavery in west Africa, they often imagine colonial governors issuing decrees and missionaries working to end local traffic in enslaved people. Two of my recent publications tell…
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Weight loss drug demand continues to grow in the UK – here’s what’s being done to keep supplies readily available
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Liz Breen, Professor of Health Service Operations, School of Pharmacy & Medical Sciences, University of Bradford Demand for weight loss jabs has surged in the UK. Mohammed_Al_Ali/ Shutterstock Over a fifth of people in the UK have tried to access a weight loss drug in the…
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Flames to floods: how Europe’s devastating wildfires are fuelling its next climate crisis
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Ioanna Stamataki, Senior Lecturer in Hydraulics and Water Engineering, University of Greenwich In recent years, I have all too often found myself passing over an active wildfire when flying from London to my family home in Greece during the summer months. The sky glows an eerie,…
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Medieval skeletons reveal the lasting damage of childhood malnutrition – new study
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Julia Beaumont, Researcher in Biological Anthropology, University of Bradford Beneath churchyards in London and Lincolnshire lie the chemical echoes of famine, infection and survival preserved in the teeth of those who lived through some of the most catastrophic periods in English history. In a new study,…
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Flawed notions of objectivity are hampering Canadian newsrooms when it comes to Gaza
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Gabriela Perdomo, Assistant Professor, Mount Royal University The response of Canada’s legacy news media to the Israeli government’s military action in Gaza for more than 640 days points to a problem within major Canadian news organizations, according to a new Canadian book, When Genocide Wasn’t News.…
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Why Donald Trump has stopped some conflicts but is failing with Ukraine and Gaza
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham In yet another twist in his unpredictable decision making, US president Donald Trump has dramatically shortened his original 50-day ultimatum to Vladimir Putin to call a ceasefire in Ukraine to a mere ten days. It’s an unmistakable…
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From ‘God Emperor Trump’ to ‘St. Luigi,’ memes power the politics of feeling
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Stuart J. Murray, Professor of Rhetoric and Ethics | Professeur titulaire en rhétorique et éthique, Carleton University Why do images of Donald Trump as a galactic emperor or Luigi Mangione as a Catholic saint resonate so deeply with some people? Memes don’t just entertain — they…