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María Corina Machado’s peace prize follows Nobel tradition of awarding recipients for complex reasons
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By David Smilde, Professor of Sociology, Tulane University Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado gestures during a protest in Caracas on Jan. 9, 2025. Juan Barreto/AFP via Getty Images Few can doubt the courage María Corina Machado has shown in fighting for a return to democracy…
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Natural World Heritage sites under growing threat, but bright spots remain
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Jessica Beaudette, Visiting Scholar, Center for Biodiversity Outcomes, Arizona State University A herd of antelope graze near a giraffe in Botswana’s Okavango Delta. Murat Ozgur Guvendik/Anadolu via Getty Images Botswana’s fertile Okavango Delta is one of the last remaining high-biodiversity ecosystems in the world, home…
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How the government shutdown is making the air traffic controller shortage worse and leading to flight delays
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Brian Strzempkowski, Assistant Director, Center for Aviation Studies, The Ohio State University The government shutdown has exacerbated the air traffic controller shortage, leading to delays at airports across the country, including in Burbank, Calif. Mario Tama/Getty Images Airports across the United States have been experiencing significant…
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A pro-democracy Venezuelan politician wins this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Is it a rebuke to Trump?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By James Horncastle, Assistant Professor and Edward and Emily McWhinney Professor in International Relations, Simon Fraser University The Nobel Committee has ended months of speculation over the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner in selecting Venezuelan politician and activist María Corina Machado. With no obvious candidate this year,…
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From artificial atoms to quantum information machines: Inside the 2025 Nobel Prize in physics
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Zhixin Wang, Postdoctoral Researcher in Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara This illustration shows, from left to right: John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach, CC BY-NC The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics honors three quantum physicists – John Clarke,…
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Government shutdown hasn’t left consumers glum about the economy – for now, at least
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Joanne Hsu, Research Associate Professor at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan Economic clouds gathering? Perhaps not yet. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images The ongoing federal shutdown has resulted in a pause on regular government data releases, meaning economic data has been in…
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Could digital currencies end banking as we know it? The future of money
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Rafik Omar, Lecturer in Finance, Cardiff Metropolitan University Inkoly/Shutterstock Give me control of a nation’s money supply, and I care not who makes its laws. (Mayer Amschel Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty.) Throughout history, control over money has been one of the most powerful…
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Nobel peace prize winner Maria Corina Machado: Venezuelan opposition leader forced into hiding after taking on Maduro
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Pia Riggirozzi, Professor of Global Politics, University of Southampton Across Latin America, democracy is coming under severe pressure. Authoritarian leaders across the continent have been entrenching political power through constitutional manipulation, militarised policing and the persecution of dissent. In Venezuela, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Argentina, regimes…
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How László Krasznahorkai’s Nobel-prize winning genius slowly spread around Europe
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Zsuzsanna Varga, Senior Lecturer, Political & International Studies, University of Glasgow When László Krasznahorkai, winner of the 2025 Nobel prize in literature, first burst onto Hungary’s literary scene in 1985, it was clear he was a unique talent. His first novel, Satantango, soon became a cult…
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Curious Kids: who invented art?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Frances Fowle, Personal Chair of Nineteenth-Century Art, History of Art, University of Edinburgh 2xSamara.com/Shutterstock Who invented art? – Grace, aged nine, Belfast, UK Before we can answer this question, we need to think about another one: “what is art?” Art is something people make to share…