Category: Analysis
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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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Do food additives cause symptoms of ADHD? It’s more complicated than you think
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By David Benton, Professor Emeritus (Human & Health Sciences), Medicine Health and Life Science, Swansea University shutterstock Abramov Michael/Shutterstock Robert F. Kennedy Jr has spent years railing against food additives, framing them as part of a broader threat to public health. Now, as the US health secretary,…
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Can’t sleep? Your ability to adapt to shiftwork and the changing seasons may be determined by your genes
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Laura Roden, Professor in Chronobiology, Coventry University Barillo_Images/Shutterstock Many people find that their sleep and moods are linked to the seasons. Those living in temperate zones may feel like hibernating in winter and staying out all night in summer, though even those in the tropics can…
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The Rodrigues parakeet’s last day: what one extinct bird tells us about the role of museums
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jack Ashby, Assistant Director of the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, University of Cambridge One day in August, 1875, a greyish-blue parrot was shot on a small island in the Indian Ocean near Mauritius. It was the last time a Rodrigues parakeet was known to be…
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We’re witnessing last-ditch talks to secure a global plastic pollution treaty
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Winnie Courtene-Jones, Lecturer in Marine Pollution, Bangor University Negotiators from around the world are gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, for the final UN intergovernmental session to hammer out a legally binding global treaty on plastics pollution. The conference began on August 5, but after a week and…
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How a new way of thinking about empathy could cool Britain’s migration rows
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Georgios Karyotis, Professor of Security Politics, University of Glasgow Recent protests at asylum hotels in Epping, Essex, have prompted calls from the hotel’s residents for something rare in UK migration debates: understanding. This is something that has been clearly lacking in the conversations fuelling anti-immigrant protests,…
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Premier League: from red success to grey failure – how kit colours appears 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…
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Premier League: from red success to grey failure – can kit colours really 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…
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Climate models reveal how human activity may be locking the Southwest into permanent drought
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Pedro DiNezio, Associate Professor of Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder A worker moves irrigation tubes on a farm in Pinal County, Ariz. A two-decade drought has made water supplies harder to secure. Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images A new wave…
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Skin cancer: is HPV also a potential cause?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Sarah Allinson, Professor, Department of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Lancaster University HPV are a common group of viruses which can infect skin and other parts of the body. Anusorn Nakdee/ Shutterstock Skin cancer is typically caused by damage to the skin’s cells from ultraviolet radiation. But…