Category: Analysis
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Premier League: from red success to grey failure – how kit colours 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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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…
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Jane Austen fight club: experts go head-to-head arguing for her best leading man
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By James Vigus, Senior Lecturer in English, Queen Mary University of London To mark the 250th anniversary of her birth, we’re pitting Jane Austen’s much-loved novels against each other in a battle of wit, charm and romance. Seven leading Austen experts have made their case for her…
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How poisoned data can trick AI − and how to stop it
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By M. Hadi Amini, Associate Professor of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University Data poisoning can make an AI system dangerous to use, potentially posing threats such as chemically poisoning a food or water supply. ArtemisDiana/iStock via Getty Images Imagine a busy train station. Cameras monitor…
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Spiderweb silks and architectures reveal millions of years of evolutionary ingenuity
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Ella Kellner, Ph.D. Student in Biological Sciences, University of North Carolina – Charlotte An orchard orb weaver spider rests in the center of her web. Daniela Duncan/Moment via Getty Images Have you ever walked face-first into a spiderweb while on a hike? Or swept away cobwebs…
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COVID-19 vaccines for kids are mired in uncertainty amid conflicting federal guidance
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By David Higgins, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus The coordinated process for recommending and ensuring access to vaccines has been disrupted. Thomas Barwick/DigitalVision via Getty Images It’s August, and parents and caregivers are frantically preparing their kids for a new school…
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Grief feels unbearable, disorienting and chaotic – a grief researcher and widow shares evidence-based ways to face the early days of loss
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Liza Barros-Lane, Assistant Professor of Social Work, University of Houston-Downtown Grief brings a person’s world to a halt. Valentina Shilkina/iStock via Getty Images Plus The July 4 floods in Kerr County, Texas, sent shockwaves across the country. Now that most of the victims’ burials are…
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AI is making reading books feel obsolete – and students have a lot to lose
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Naomi S. Baron, Professor Emerita of Linguistics, American University Workarounds to reading a book cover-to-cover have existed for decades, but generative AI takes it to new heights. dem10/E+ via Getty Images A perfect storm is brewing for reading. AI arrived as both kids and adults…
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Labor Day and May Day emerged from the movement for a shorter workday in industrial America
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Jeffrey Sklansky, Professor of History, University of Illinois Chicago It took more than a century for Chicago’s Haymarket Square to get this memorial to the historic labor strife that occurred there. Jeffrey Sklansky Most of the world observes International Workers’ Day on May 1 or…
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Mindfulness is gaining traction in American schools – but it isn’t clear what students are learning
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Deborah L. Schussler, Professor of Education Policy and Leadership, University at Albany, State University of New York Sixth grade students start their science class with five minutes of meditation at George Washington Middle School in Alexandria, Va., in February 2020. Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via…