Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Thiruni Kelegama, Lecturer in Modern South Asian Studies, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies., University of Oxford Sri Lanka’s former president and six-time prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, was arrested on August 22 for allegedly misusing state resources while in office. He is accused of using…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Priya Bhide, Clinical Reader Women’s Health Research Unit, Centre for Public Health and Policy, Queen Mary University of London alphaspirit.it/Shutterstock During pregnancy, the placenta is the lifeline between mother and baby. It supplies the foetus with oxygen and nutrients, removes waste products and acts as a…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Clare Downham, Professor, University of Liverpool Æthelstan ( 894 to 939) in an illustration in a manuscript of Bede’s Life of Saint Cuthbert. Wikimedia The reign of Æthelstan (924 to 939) has excited a significant amount of study in recent years. In 2004 there was The Age…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Paty Paliokosta, Associate Professor of Special and Inclusive Education, Kingston University Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock For many pupils, the move to secondary school is a moment of anticipation – new friends, new subjects, and a growing sense of independence. But research in England shows this transition often comes with…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Dafydd Townley, Teaching Fellow in US politics and international security, University of Portsmouth Over the past few months, the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, has increasingly become a focal point for the Democratic party’s resistance to the US president, Donald Trump. And a poll taken in…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Joseph Janes, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Swansea University Yaba, a cheap and potent methamphetamine-caffeine pill often dubbed “crazy medicine”, has become one of Thailand’s most pressing public health crises. Easy to produce and widely available, yaba is used by everyone from factory workers seeking stamina to…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Alex Bryson, Professor of Quantitative Social Science, UCL Tero Vesalainen/Shutterstock For years now, research studies across the world looking at happiness across our lifetimes have found a U-shape: happiness falls from a high point in youth, and then rises again after middle age. This has been…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Kolaia Raisele, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, La Trobe University DrPixel/Getty In recent years, Pacific island nations have earned global credibility as champions of climate action. Pacific leaders view sea level rise as an existential threat. But this united front is now under strain as some…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Lin Tian, Research Fellow, Data Science Institute, University of Technology Sydney Bart Fish & Power Tools of AI / https://betterimagesofai.org, CC BY When you ask ChatGPT or other AI assistants to help create misinformation, they typically refuse, with responses like “I cannot assist with creating…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Simon Levett, PhD candidate, public international law, University of Technology Sydney Journalist Mariam Dagga was just 33 when she was brutally killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on August 25. As a freelance photographer and videographer, she had captured the suffering in Gaza through…