Category: Analysis
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Insurance warning signs in doctors’ offices might discourage patients from speaking openly about their health
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Helen Colby, Assistant Professor of Marketing, Indiana University Have you ever noticed a sign in a doctor’s office saying that you may have to pay extra insurance costs if you discuss additional problems with your physician? If so, you’re not alone. As health care spending…
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Trump has promised to eliminate funding to schools that don’t nix DEI work – but half of the states are not complying
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Hilary Lustick, Associate Professor of Education, UMass Lowell While other presidential administrations have issued ‘Dear Colleague’ letters to schools, the Trump administration is the first to treat the letter like a law that mandates action. iStock/Getty Images Plus It’s been about six months since the…
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History shows why FEMA is essential in disasters, and how losing independent agency status hurt its ability to function
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Susan L. Cutter, Distinguished Professor of Geography and Director of the Hazards Vulnerability & Resilience Institute, University of South Carolina FEMA workers help residents who lost homes in the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires apply for aid. Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images When…
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Iron nanoparticles can help treat contaminated water – our team of scientists created them out of expired supplements
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Ahmed Ibrahim Yunus, Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Scientists used pharmaceutical waste to create a new material with interesting properties. Mitrija/iStock via Getty Images Today, approximately 1,800,000 acres of land in the United States is used for landfill waste disposal. In terms…
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Philadelphia is using AI-driven cameras to keep bus lanes clear – transparency can help build trust in the system
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Murugan Anandarajan, Professor of Decision Sciences and Management Information Systems, Drexel University More than 150 Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority buses across Philadelphia are equipped with cameras that detect vehicles blocking bus lanes. Han Zheng via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority piloted a…
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How states are placing guardrails around AI in the absence of strong federal regulation
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Anjana Susarla, Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University The California State Capitol has been the scene of numerous efforts to regulate AI. AP Photo/Juliana Yamada U.S. state legislatures are where the action is for placing guardrails around artificial intelligence technologies, given the lack of meaningful…
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Nature’s underground engineers: how plant roots could save harvests from drought
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By James Le Houx, Emerging Leader Fellow, Science and Technology Facilities Council Zamrznuti tonovi/Shutterstock Ever wondered how a delicate plant root can push its way through hard ground? It’s a feat of engineering happening beneath our feet. Understanding this process is more important than ever as we…
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Five things I wish everyone knew about weight loss – by an expert in nutrition
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Rachel Woods, Senior Lecturer in Physiology, University of Lincoln voronaman/Shutterstock Weight loss continues to dominate public discourse – often framed as a matter of personal responsibility. But after nearly 15 years working in and around health and nutrition research, I’ve seen how weight is treated differently…
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Black Grape: It’s Great When You’re Straight… Yeah at 30 – one of music’s greatest comeback stories
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Glenn Fosbraey, Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Winchester In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Shaun Ryder had the world at his feet. His band, The Happy Mondays, had been key players in the UK “Madchester scene” and had scored a platinum…
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Did the Sun boycott make Liverpool more leftwing? My study indicates it may have shifted views
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Lucas Paulo da Silva, PhD Candidate, Political Science, Trinity College Dublin Most newspapers in the UK tend to represent a political perspective. It is difficult to measure the extent to which someone’s media consumption affects their political views – but what if you take one newspaper…