Category: Analysis
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How Shakespeare can help us overcome loneliness in the digital age
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Marie Trotter, PhD Candidate, Department of English, McGill University Are you addicted to endless scrolling? Trapped by the algorithms on your smartphone? Theatre might just be the antidote. “Denmark’s a prison,” says Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, in one of Shakespeare’s most famous dramas. In this scene,…
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Censoring video games with sexual content suppresses the diversity of human desire
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Jean Ketterling, Assistant Professor, Political Studies – Women’s and Gender Studies Program, University of Saskatchewan The battle over adult content is provoking concern about censorship and threatening game makers’ livelihoods. (Pexels/John Petalcurin) Following a campaign by Australian anti-porn organization Collective Shout, the video game distribution platforms…
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Israel’s opposition: against Benjamin Netanyahu but not yet for peace with the Palestinians
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By John Strawson, Emeritus Professor of Law, University of East London Sunday is the first day of the working week in Israel – but the upcoming Sunday August 17 promises to be a day of strikes and demonstrations. There’s a groundswell of public opposition to prime minister…
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Ancient Incans of all classes used coded strings of hair for record keeping – new research
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Sabine Hyland, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews The author studying a khipu. Author provided, CC BY-SA The people of the ancient Incan empire kept careful records of their economics, religion, demographics and history. Those records took the form of knotted cords called khipus.…
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Fossils are scientific evidence, and shouldn’t be auctioned for millions to private buyers
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Jessica M. Theodor, Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary Last year, a Stegosaurus nicknamed “Apex” sold at auction for US$40.5 million. A juvenile Ceratosaurus fetched US$30.5 million just last month. Supporters of these sales argue that they’re harmless, or even good for science. Others compare…
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How a global plastic treaty could cut down pollution – if the world can agree one
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Will de Freitas, Environment + Energy Editor, The Conversation Pol Sole/Shutterstock The “Paris agreement for plastic” was set to be finalised at the end of this week. But after a week and a half of intense discussions in Geneva, Switzerland, where negotiators from 180 countries are…
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US presidents have always used transactional foreign policy – but Trump does it differently
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Patrick E. Shea, Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Global Governance, University of Glasgow The US president, Donald Trump, watched on recently as the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan shook hands in the White House. They had just signed what Trump called a “peace deal” to…
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Israel’s opposition: against Benjamin Netanyahu but not yet for peace with the Palestnians
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By John Strawson, Emeritus Professor of Law, University of East London Sunday is the first day of the working week in Israel – but the upcoming Sunday August 17 promises to be a day of strikes and demonstrations. There’s a groundswell of public opposition to prime minister…
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How cutting waiting lists for mental healthcare would save money – and people’s jobs
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Roger Prudon, Lecturer in Economics, Lancaster University There are more than 1 million people on NHS waiting lists for mental healthcare in the UK. Many of them have to wait weeks or months before treatment can begin for conditions such as depression and anxiety. And according…
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Premier League: from red success to grey failure – how kit colours appear to impact performance
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Zoe Wimshurst, Senior Lecturer of Sport Psychology, Health Sciences University As the Premier League season kicks off, fans will debate their new kits almost as much as new signings. But could shirt colour actually give teams a performance edge? Science suggests they can. One of the…