Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Davinia Beaver, Postdoctoral research fellow, Clem Jones Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Bond University Pouya Hajiebrahimi/Unsplash You’re introduced to someone and your attention catches on their eyes. They might be a rich, earthy brown, a pale blue, or the rare green that shifts with every flicker…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Simon Stevenson, ARC DECRA Fellow, Swinburne University of Technology Carl Knox, OzGrav, Swinburne University of Technology Ten years ago, scientists heard the universe rumble for the first time. That first discovery of gravitational waves proved a key prediction from Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Shannon Bosch, Associate Professor (Law), Edith Cowan University Israel launched a targeted airstrike on the Hamas leadership in Doha, the capital of Qatar, on Tuesday. Six people were reported killed, including the son of a senior Hamas figure. Global condemnation was swift. The Qatari government…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By John Deni, Research Professor of Joint, Interagency, Intergovernmental, and Multinational Security Studies, US Army War College Authorities inspect a house damaged by debris from a Russian drone shot down in eastern Poland. Wojtek Radwanski/AFP via Getty Images NATO fighter jets shot down multiple Russian drones…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Fellow for the Middle East at the Baker Institute, Rice University The dust settles in Doha after the latest Israeli attack in the region. Photo by Jacqueline Penney / AFPTV /AFP via Getty Images The Israeli airstrike targeting senior Hamas political leaders…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Anne Irfan, Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender and Postcolonial Studies, UCL US president Bill Clinton with Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at the Oslo Accords signing ceremony on 13 September 1993. Vince Musi/The White House At the end of August, the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Adam Taylor, Professor of Anatomy, Lancaster University This is why you shouldn’t bring your phone with you into the toilet. Alex Goncharov/ Shutterstock It might seem like a harmless habit to linger on the loo with your phone while “taking care of business”, but research shows…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Michelle Spear, Professor of Anatomy, University of Bristol Bokeh Stock/Shutterstock.com In recent years, skulls, bones, and even modified human remains have appeared with increasing frequency on online marketplaces and social media platforms. What might once have been confined to specialist collectors has become a global, online…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Leanne McCarthy-Cotter, Programme Director for Politics and International Relations, Cardiff Metropolitan University Nepal’s prime minister, KP Sharma Oli, resigned on September 9 as his country reeled from some of its worst unrest in decades. A government ban on 26 social media apps, including Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Patricia Schmidt, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Birmingham Black holes may be the fiercest objects in the universe, yet we still know very little about them. It has only been a decade since we confirmed their existence by detecting gravitational waves: ripples in the fabric…