Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Russell Blackford, Conjoint Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Newcastle Statue of Liberty, New York. Celso Flores, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY Kevin M. Schultz is Chair of the Department of History at the University of Illinois Chicago, where he specialises in 20th- and 21st-century…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Louise Gentle, Principal Lecturer in Wildlife Conservation, Nottingham Trent University Is someone asking about my bogies? Anan Kaewkhammul Do owls have bogies? Ravine, aged three, Glasgow Hi Ravine, The quick answer is yes, but the interesting thing is why. Bogies, or boogers as they are known…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Christopher Gaffney, Senior Lecturer in Integrative Physiology, Lancaster University Interval running is a form of HIIT. baranq/ Shutterstock Running has a huge number of benefits. The popular workout can prevent disease, improve mental health and even slow the biological ageing process. But around 31% of us…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Renaud Foucart, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University Catarina Belova/Shutterstock Before resigning from his nine-month stint as French prime minister, François Bayrou had claimed that if France failed to cut its public deficit, young people would pay the price “for the sake…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Ruth Emily Sylvester, Research Fellow in Water and Health Governance, University of Leeds The raw sewage in England’s rivers and seas is not just a story of corporate failure. It’s also a legacy of Victorian sewers – impressive and high-tech in their day, but with inequality…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Dan Baumgardt, Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol Doucefleur/Shutterstock Every so often, a completely random advert stops me in my tracks and makes me wonder what on earth went on in the room where it was created. For me, that moment came…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Dai O’Brien, Associate Professor, BSL and Deaf Studies, York St John University Deaf is a deeply emotional examination of what having a baby can mean for a mixed deaf and hearing couple. Spanish director Eva Libertad’s film explores where access, language and trying to keep a…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Gordon Lynch, Professor of Religion, Society and Ethics, University of Edinburgh Wherever you stand on his political views, Charlie Kirk’s murder is a tragedy on a personal level. He was just 31 and a husband and father of young children. But as a public figure his…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Katie Pruszynski, PhD Candidate, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield Charlie Kirk, figurehead of the American far right, took a question at a 2023 event in Salt Lake City about the second amendment to the US constitution and gun-related deaths. He answered: “I…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Melissa Butcher, Professor Emeritus, Social and Cultural Geography, Royal Holloway University of London In December 2021, I was in an exhibition hall in Phoenix, Arizona, with 10,000 young people who had come to hear a lineup of “America first” speakers, from Tucker Carlson to Ted Cruz.…