Category: English
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Despite Google’s recent victory, a flurry of competition cases could still change how the tech giants do business
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Ioannis Kokkoris, Professor of Competition Law and Economics, Queen Mary University of London A US judge recently decided not to break up Google, despite a ruling last year that the company held a monopoly in the online search market. Between Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Meta,…
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Detroit’s Gordie Howe bridge is poised to open as truck traffic between US-Canada slows – low-income residents are deciding whether to stay or go
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Paul Draus, Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan-Dearborn The Gordie Howe International Bridge connects Detroit, Mich., and Windsor, Ontario. John Coletti/Photodisc via Getty Images Watching the space between two nations shrink became a regular pastime for Detroiters over the past decade as the segments of the…
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Graduated, now what? Survey of young Africans shows degrees don’t always land them a job
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Andrea Juan, Chief Research Specialist, Human Sciences Research Council Graduates aren’t guaranteed a job. Nqobile Vundla/Unsplash Study hard, get your degree, and then step confidently into a stable, well-paid job. That’s long been the assumption about how to secure a livelihood: in neat, predictable stages. But…
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2 newly launched NASA missions will help scientists understand the influence of the Sun, both from up close and afar
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Ryan French, Research Scientist, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado Boulder NASA’s IMAP mission is one of two launching in September 2025. NASA/Princeton University/Patrick McPike Even at a distance of 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) away, activity on the Sun can have…
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Neuroscience finds musicians feel pain differently from the rest of us
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Anna M. Zamorano, Assistant Professor, Aarhus University Irek Pod/Shutterstock.com It’s well known that learning to play an instrument can offer benefits beyond just musical ability. Indeed, research shows it’s a great activity for the brain – it can enhance our fine motor skills,language acquisition, speech, and…
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Not enemies, but people: Why the world needs to rethink the language of war
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Martin Danahay, Professor, English Language and Literature, Brock University The United States military under the Donald Trump administration has sunk three Venezuelan boats that were allegedly ferrying drugs. American officials branded the people on the boats “narcoterrorists.” The term “narcoterrorist” conflates the U.S. internal “war on…
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Blood, bruises and belief: how England’s women’s rugby team embody physical and mental endurance
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Helen Owton, Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology, The Open University France v England Women’s Rugby World Cup Semi Final 2025 Photo by Alex Davidson – World Rugby/World Rugby via Getty Images As women’s sport surges on the global stage, hosts England have lit up…
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Why slugs are so hard to control – and how scientists are working to keep them in check
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Sergei Petrovskii, Professor of Applied Mathematics , University of Leicester Most people aren’t keen on sharing their salad with a slug. Lisa-S/Shutterstock Almost everyone who has a garden knows what a nuisance slugs can be. They are also one of the most destructive crop pests in…
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A contemporary history of Britain’s far right – and how it helps explain why so many people went to the Unite the Kingdom rally in London
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Aaron Edwards, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Leicester The recent “Unite the Kingdom” rally in London shows how easy it is for the radical right to mobilise a mass protest by repackaging a perennial issue as a moral panic. It did so by fusing together fears…
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The Biggest Loser: how an aggressive entertainment culture normalised body-shaming
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Freya Gowrley, Lecturer in History of Art and Liberal Arts, University of Bristol The Netflix documentary Fit for TV: The Reality of the Biggest Loser raises questions around the ethics of one the most popular US reallity TV series of the 2000s. From claims about the…