Category: English
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The crisis of Indonesian policing: Guardians of the people or protectors of power?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Indonesia – By Perdian Tumanan, PhD Candidate in Ethics and Religion, Villanova School of Law The death of 21-year-old Indonesian online delivery driver Affan Kurniawan, who was crushed by a Barracuda police vehicle during a protest, invites comparisons to George Floyd. The African American was killed by a police…
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Mushrooms may have been part of early human diets: primate study explores who eats what and when
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Alexander Piel, Asso. Professor in Anthropology, University College London, UCL Mushrooms may not be the first food that comes to mind when we imagine the diets of wild primates – or our early human ancestors. We tend to think of fruits and green leaves as…
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Friday essay: new revelations of the Murdoch empire’s underbelly – from The Hack’s real-life journalist
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Rodney Tiffen, Emeritus Professor, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney David Tennant as Nick Davies in The Hack Stan This is the humblest day of my life, declared Rupert Murdoch to a parliamentary committee on July 19, 2011. This was at the…
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Civil society helps uphold democracy and provides built-in resistance to authoritarianism
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Christopher Justin Einolf, Professor of Sociology, Northern Illinois University Alex Soros is the board chair of the Open Society Foundations, the philanthropy funded by his father, George Soros. AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta The New York Times reports that a senior Department of Justice official recently “instructed…
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AI systems can easily lie and deceive us – a fact researchers are painfully aware of
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Armin Alimardani, Senior Lecturer in Law and Emerging Technologies, Western Sydney University In the classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey, astronaut Dave Bowman asks the ship’s artificial intelligence, HAL 9000, to open the pod bay doors to let him back into the spaceship. HAL refuses:…
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Babies can get hepatitis B at birth. Here’s why Trump is wrong about delaying the vaccine
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Nicholas Wood, Professor, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead Clinical School and Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute, University of Sydney Cavan Images/Getty United States President Donald Trump this week claimed children should not be vaccinated against hepatitis B until they are 12 years old, rather than at…
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Aid workers around the world are in greater danger than ever. Will a new UN declaration protect them?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Amra Lee, PhD candidate in Protection of Civilians, Australian National University Aid workers face more difficult and dangerous conditions in carrying out their work than ever before. The United Nations declared 2024 the worst year on record, with 385 aid workers killed in 20 countries.…
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Warn, hide or stand out? How colour in the animal world is a battle for survival
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Iliana Medina, Lecturer in Ecology, The University of Melbourne The animal world is incredibly colourful, and behind this colour palette is a constant game of survival. Most animals use camouflage, covering themselves in stealthy patterns to hide from predators. Others display bright and bold colours…
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Repatriation or political theatre? How the return of stolen artefacts can distort history
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Will Brehm, Associate Professor of Comparative and International Education, University of Canberra Champa Kingdom, Avalokiteshvara Padmapani, Vajrapani and Avalokiteshvara Padmapani, 9th–11th century, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, Acquired 2011, deaccessioned 2021, repatriated 2023, On loan from the Kingdom of Cambodia, 2023–2026 In late July, during…
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What parents need to know about Tylenol, autism and the difference between finding a link and finding a cause in scientific research
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Mark Louie Ramos, Assistant Research Professor of Health Policy and Administration, Penn State In cases where associations are found, researchers must consider dosage response, differences between siblings and other factors to determine a cause-and-effect relationship. Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty Images Claims from the Trump White…