Category: English
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Book of Kells: exploring the evidence that points to Pictish origins in north-east Scotland
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Rachel Moss, Professor in the History of Art and Architecture, Trinity College Dublin Writing in the early 20th century, the celebrated author James Joyce noted that the Book of Kells – an illuminated manuscript depicting the four gospels of the New Testament in Latin – was…
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Le Carré, Bacchae and radical feminist punk art – what to see and watch this week
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Naomi Joseph, Arts + Culture Editor, The Conversation John le Carré was a master of the spy novel – not by glamorising espionage, but by stripping it of illusion. His stories abandoned the trope of the suave, heartless agent in favour of morally complex characters navigating…
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Manchester synagogue attack: why so many people in Britain’s Jewish community felt a sense of inevitability that this day would come
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Julian Hargreaves, Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology, City St George’s, University of London A man believed to be Jihad Al-Shamie, a 35-year-old British citizen born in Syria, has been shot dead by police after launching an attack on a synagogue in Manchester on Yom…
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Commuters have bemoaned Philly’s public transit for decades − in 1967, a librarian got the city to listen
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Menika Dirkson, Associate Professor of History, Morgan State University A SEPTA train moves along the Market-Frankford Line in West Philadelphia. AP Photo/Matt Rourke On April 13, 1967, around 1:30 p.m., Lt. Joseph Larkin of the Philadelphia Police Department’s subway unit visited the Philadelphia High School for…
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Toxic pollution builds up in snake scales: what we learnt from black mambas
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Cormac Price, Post-doctoral fellow the HerpHealth lab, office 218, Building G23. Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University; University of KwaZulu-Natal Black mambas (Dendroaspis polylepis) are Africa’s longest, most famous venomous snakes. Despite their fearsome reputation, these misunderstood snakes are vital players in their ecosystems.…
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Children can be systematic problem-solvers at younger ages than psychologists had thought – new research
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Celeste Kidd, Professor of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley How do kids figure out how to sort things by order? Celeste Kidd I’m in a coffee shop when a young child dumps out his mother’s bag in search of fruit snacks. The contents spill onto the…
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Science costs money – research is guided by who funds it and why
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Ryan Summers, Associate Professor of Science Education, University of North Dakota NSF is one federal agency that funds a wide range of basic science research. Nicole Fuller/National Science Foundation, CC BY Scientists have always needed someone to help foot the bill for their work. In the…
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Virtual particles: How physicists’ clever bookkeeping trick could underlie reality
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Dipangkar Dutta, Professor of Nuclear Physics, Mississippi State University Scientists imagine virtual particles popping in and out of existence to explain how forces transfer between particles. koto_feja/iStock via Getty Images A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of…
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‘AI actor’ Tilly Norwood is dividing Hollywood – but real acting requires humanity
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Nicholas Scrivens, Programme Leader – MA Musical Theatre, University of Surrey Tilly Norwood is the hottest actor in Hollywood right now. Her career has been covered by Variety, the BBC and Forbes, to name just a few publications. All of this is publicity that a young…
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What is lupus, the condition Selena Gomez is diagnosed with?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Elizabeth Rosser, Associate Professor of Aging, Rheumatology and Regenerative Medicine, UCL Gomez first shared her diagnosis in 2015. Fred Duval/ Shutterstock Actress, singer and makeup mogul Selena Gomez has been candid about her experience of living with lupus. Since 2015, Gomez has documented on social media…