Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Emily-Rose Baker, Research Fellow, Department of English, University of Southampton At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum announced the launch of a new digital replica of the concentration camp for filmmakers. Titled Picture from Auschwitz, the virtual film location is designed to…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Adam R. North, Early Career Researcher, Religions and Theology Department, University of Manchester Humour has become one of the most potent weapons in the populist politician’s playbook. Comedic populists like Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and Argentinian president Javier Milei use ridicule, absurdity and sarcasm…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Gráinne Tyrrell, Doctoral Researcher in Biomedical Device Design, School of Architecture and Product Design, University of Limerick S Eirich/Shutterstock “If you can’t handle this, you’ll never keep up with your peers.” That’s what a young vascular surgeon in training reported hearing from a senior colleague during…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Mikael Palner, Associate Professor, Neurobiology, University of Southern Denmark How can we live longer? The eternal question, and one that scientists have long been trying to answer. We know that diet, exercise, and genes play a big role in the ageing process and how long each…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Marta Khomyn, Lecturer, Finance and Data Analytics, University of Adelaide Chip Somodevilla /Getty We may already live in the post-truth world, but are we about to enter the era of post-truth statistics? Each month, the US employment report is one of the most closely watched…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Daniel You, Clinical Lecturer USYD, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist FRANZCP, University of Sydney Cheng Xin/Getty Images News Within two days of launching its AI companions last month, Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot app Grok became the most popular app in Japan. Companion chatbots are more powerful…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By William Gourlay, Teaching Associate in Politics & International Relations at the School of Social Sciences, Monash University A Turkish proverb – düştüğün yerden kalk – counsels that one should arise from where one has fallen. Ekrem İmamoğlu, the jailed mayor of Istanbul and main rival…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Giselle Bastin, Associate Professor of English, Flinders University “I’ve had Japanese people crying when I tell them I’m not Diana,” British woman Christina Hance, who sometimes earned thousands of pounds a day as a Diana impersonator, told the BBC in 1996. A few months later,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Drew Terasaki Hart, Ecologist, CSIRO The average seasonal growth cycles of Earth’s land-based ecosystems, estimated from 20 years of satellite imagery. Terasaki Hart et al. / Nature The annual clock of the seasons – winter, spring, summer, autumn – is often taken as a given.…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Dan Baumgardt, Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol Cagkan Sayin/Shutterstock In my youth, I spent an unreasonable amount of time questioning why A-level chemistry was a prerequisite for medical school. Why was it as essential as biology? Why did I need to…