Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Claire Isabella Gilmour, PhD Candidate, Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Bristol This year has seen a number of artefacts recovered from the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Egypt. The area has attracted interest for some time due to ongoing searches for the tomb of Cleopatra…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Malgorzata Szymanska, PhD Candidate, Cognition and Brain Science, University of Cambridge 22ImagesStudio/Shutterstock.com Inside every human brain lies a detailed map of the body, with different regions dedicated to different body parts – the hands, lips, feet and more. But what happens to this map when a…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Lucy Thompson, Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University To mark the 250th anniversary of her birth, we’re pitting Jane Austen’s much-loved novels against each other in a battle of wit, charm and romance. Six leading Austen experts have made their case for her…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Sarah Scales, PhD Candidate, School of Social Sciences, Media, Film and Education, Swinburne University of Technology taylorswift/Instagram Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have announced their engagement, posting on Instagram images of the proposal with the caption “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Troy Miller, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space, The University of Western Australia ARC Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space, CC BY-ND Sometime in the 2040s, humans may well reach a new frontier – Mars. To get…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Susan Davis, Chair of Women’s Health, Monash University If you’re a woman approaching middle age and you’re on social media, you might have been urged to get your hormones checked. These posts often highlight troubling symptoms of perimenopause. Then they flag blood tests as a…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Vanessa Newby, Senior Lecturer, Politics & International Relations, Monash University The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) is seen by many as an essential peacekeeping buffer between Israel, Lebanon and Hezbollah. But Israeli pressure, US doubts over Unifil’s cost-effectiveness and the fragile state of Lebanon’s…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Ming Gao, Research Fellow of East Asia Studies, Lund University In the 2025 global gender gap index (GGGI), Japan ranks 118th out of 148 countries – still the lowest among the G7 nations and among the poorest performers globally. This is largely because of limited political…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Adriana Alcaraz-Sanchez, Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh fran_kie/Shutterstock For some people, sleep brings a peculiar kind of wakefulness. Not a dream, but a quiet awareness with no content. This lesser-known state of consciousness may hold clues to one of…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Stephanie Brown, Lecturer in Criminology, University of Hull Bodyguard and queen kill King of Lydia. Illuminated manuscript of Cité de Dieu by Maître François (circa 1475). Author provided, CC BY-SA A recent YouGov poll found that the word that Americans most associate with the middle ages…