Category: English
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How the physics of baseball explains Blue Jay Kevin Gausman’s signature pitch
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Patrick Clancy, Assistant Professor, Physics & Astronomy, McMaster University There are few sports more exciting than playoff baseball, but behind every pitch there is also a fascinating story of physics. From gravity to spin, the science shaping the game can be just as compelling as the…
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Why DEI needs depth, not death
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Marycarmen Lara Villanueva, PhD Candidate, Department of Social Justice Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto The Conservative Party of Canada and leader Pierre Poilievre have begun circulating a petition calling for the elimination of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and the…
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Starvation as a weapon of war: how Ethiopia created a famine in Tigray
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel, Lecturer in Environment and Development, University of Manchester Famine – the extreme scarcity of food – devastated Ethiopia’s Tigray region during and after a two-year war that began in November 2020. Yet, the famine’s impact is one of the least documented crises…
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Tanzania: President Samia Hassan’s grip on power has been shaken by unprecedented protests
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Dan Paget, Assistant professor, University of Sussex In Tanzania, something snapped this year. Protests followed the 29 October 2025 elections. They are unprecedented in their scale, national breadth and political content since the country’s independence in 1961. But the repression unleashed by newly re-elected President…
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Do mega-sporting events like the World Series pay off? Here’s the economic reality behind them
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Frédéric Dimanche, Professor and former Director (2015-2025), Ted Rogers School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Toronto Metropolitan University Whether it’s the World Series, the FIFA World Cup or the Olympic Games, the hope for hosting mega sporting events is that the economy will emerge as the…
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Girlbands Forever: BBC documentary charts the highs and lows of British girl groups – with one glaring omission
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Joel Gray, Associate Dean, Sheffield Hallam University There can be no doubt that any conversation about British girlbands of the last 30 years would be dominated by Spice Girls. In whichever corner of the globe you are, they were the defacto pop force of the late…
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A brief history of comic book vampires – including a homage to Donald Trump
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Andrew Edwards, Student Learning Developer, The University of Law In Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula (1887), an English solicitor (Jonathan Harker) is sent to Transylvania to assist Count Dracula, an aristocrat, in his move to England. When Harker discovers Dracula lying in a coffin after feeding on…
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Scary stories for kids: Monster House is a kid’s film for serious and budding horror buffs alike
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Matt Jacobsen, Senior Lecturer in Film History in the School of Society and Environment, Queen Mary University of London In Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960), Marion Crane looks up at the house looming in the night sky behind the Bates Motel, its hybrid New England/Victorian style oddly…
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Why an armed group linked to al-Qaida is gaining ground in Mali
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Tessa Devereaux, Assistant Professor in Politics, SOAS, University of London Mali’s military regime is coming under increasing pressure from Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM), an armed group linked to al-Qaida that now controls large swathes of territory across the Sahel region of western and north-central…
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Why are so few environmental criminals on Interpol’s ‘most wanted’ list?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Diogo Veríssimo, Research Fellow in Conservation Marketing, University of Oxford Environmental crime is big business, often listed among the world’s top five criminal activities, just behind counterfeiting and drug crime. So it would be reasonable to think it is a big priority for global law enforcement.…