Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Lewis Eves, Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham Tensions are rising between China and Japan again over a dispute in the East China Sea. Such tensions are usually over the Senkaku Islands, an uninhabited chain administered by Japan but claimed…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Christopher Saville, Clinical Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology and Sport Science, Bangor University B-D-S Piotr Marcinski/Shutterstock Choking during sex has moved from the margins to the mainstream for many young adults, but the risks have not changed. New research shows how common the practice has become,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Bran Nicol, Professor of English, University of Surrey From HBO drama Succession to Netflix reality show Selling Sunset, TV depictions of work tend to treat it as a vehicle for social betterment rather than a means to survival. The Chinese writer Hu Anyan’s arresting memoir, I…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Rowena Hill, Professor of Psychology, Nottingham Trent University Frame Craft 8/Shutterstock When climate change is discussed, whether at UN climate summits, in company boardrooms or in the media, the focus is often on mitigation (cutting greenhouse gas emissions to achieve net zero). Adaptation, the practical steps…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Anna-Louise Milne, Director of Graduate Studies and Research, University of London Institute in Paris All along Paris’s River Seine, private foundation money has been pouring into older Parisian institutions to make their buildings hospitable to large modern conceptual works. Crowds flock to the Bourse du Commerce,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Simon Goodman, Associate professor, De Montfort University Keir Starmer has called on Nigel Farage to address allegations of racism in Reform UK, and antisemitic and xenophobic comments and bullying allegedly made by Farage while he was at school. Farage has denied the accusations. A few weeks…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Malcolm Claus, Senior Lecturer, Astronautics and Space Technology, Kingston University The X-59 undertakes its first flight from Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works in California. Lockheed Martin An experimental supersonic aircraft called the X-59 took to the skies for the first time in October. The plane lifted off…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Natalia Zwarts, Research Leader in Wargaming at RAND Europe, RAND Europe Team with army and police special forces rescue hostages in NATO wargames training. C-S/Shutterstock Consider the following scenario. There’s a ransomware attack, enhanced by AI, which paralyses NHS systems – delaying medical care across the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jack Shelbourn, Senior Lecturer and Director of Photography, University of Lincoln Millions of us unwind with reality television. It’s comforting, social and, when the format is good, brilliantly engineered drama. But there’s an invisible carbon cost to all that escapism. Plenty of attention has been paid…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Rosie Williams, Postdoctoral Researcher, Toxicology, Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London In 2017, a new global treaty was meant to bring mercury pollution under control. But three decades of data from UK harbour porpoises show mercury is still increasing, and is linked to a higher…