Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Eef Hogervorst, Professor of Biological Psychology, Loughborough University Oysters are rich in copper. Vershinin89/Shutterstock.com More and more research suggests that the copper in your diet could play a bigger role in brain health than we once believed. A recent study found that older Americans who ate…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Geoff Beattie, Professor of Psychology, Edge Hill University Malchevska/Shutterstock We are living in an age of anxiety. People face multiple existential crises such as climate change and conflicts that could potentially escalate into nuclear war. So how do people cope with competing threats like this? And…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jess Scott-Lewis, PhD Candidate, Sheffield Institute of Social Sciences, Sheffield Hallam University MNStudio/Shutterstock Technology platforms operating in the UK now have a legal duty to protect young people from some of the more dangerous forms of online content. This includes pornography, content that encourages, promotes, or…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Marc Fullman, Docotoral Researcher in Organisational Behaviour, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex A groaning inbox by 6am? Nanci Santos Iglesias/Shutterstock If your first task of the day is triaging a bulging inbox at 6am, you are not alone. A recent Microsoft report headlined…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Eerke Boiten, Professor of Cybersecurity, Head of School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University As of July 25 2025, people in the UK accessing web services with pornographic content will have to prove they are over 18 years of age. This development has been…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Pandora Syperek, Tutor, History of Design, V&A/Royal College of Art, and Teaching Fellow, Institute for Creative Futures, Loughborough University There has been a conspicuous turn to the sea as inspiration for art and exhibitions since the mid-2010s. This is a trend we have charted in our…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Travis Van Isacker, Senior Research Associate, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol On a cold, wet November evening, Issa Mohamed Omar and more than 30 other men, women and children set off from their informal camp near the northern French port city…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Karl Bell, Reader in Cultural History, University of Portsmouth Mermaids’ Rock by Edward Matthew Hale (1894). Leeds Art Gallery/Leeds Museums and Galleries Maritime folklore has long been shuffled to the margins of nautical history, presented as the quaint, colourful oddities of a former age. Yet this…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Steven Barnett, Professor of Communications, University of Westminster Steve Travelguide/Shutterstock The House of Lords this week approved government legislation that will allow foreign states to hold up to a 15% stake in British newspaper publishers. This vote clears the way for the American investment company Redbird…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jonathan Este, Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor For the past few weeks the headlines about Gaza have focused on the hundreds of people who have been killed while queueing for food. The aid distribution system put in place in May, backed by the US and…