Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Justin Stebbing, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University Grinny/Shutterstock.com The health advice that keeps you from getting sick might actually harm you once you’re already ill. This counterintuitive medical reality has a new name: “Cuomo’s paradox”, coined by Professor Raphael Cuomo at UC San Diego…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Tom Brownlee, Associate Professor, Sport and Exercise Science, University of Birmingham It can look almost too easy: athletes gliding along on a bike, runners shuffling at a pace slower than most people’s warm-up, or someone strolling so gently it barely seems like exercise at all. Yet…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Elizabeth Simon, Postdoctoral Researcher in British Politics, Queen Mary University of London In 1998, British prime minister Tony Blair was bullish about his government’s vision for local democracy in London. A city-wide referendum had just firmly endorsed New Labour’s plan to give London a mayor. Though…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Andrew Dix, Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Film, Loughborough University “I’m still excited when somebody makes a movie out of something that I’ve done,” Stephen King recently told The Guardian. This openness to exhilaration on King’s part is remarkable, given that he is such a…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Philip Johnson, Lecturer, College of Business, Government and Law, Flinders University In early August, US President Donald Trump signed a not-so-secretive order to make plans for the use of US military force against specific Latin American criminal organisations. The plans were acted upon this week.…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Ran Porat, Affiliate Researcher, The Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University As the longest-serving Israeli prime minister (17 years), Benjamin Netanyahu is famous for his political wizardry and survival skills. But he is also a highly controversial figure with questionable moral standards and legacy.…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Sam Phelps, Commissioning Editor, International Affairs, The Conversation This article was first published in The Conversation UK’s World Affairs Briefing email newsletter. Sign up to receive weekly analysis of the latest developments in international relations, direct to your inbox. The next phase of the war in…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Heba Ghazal, Senior Lecturer, Pharmacy, Kingston University Birch pollen allergy symptoms can sometimes last from January to June. Dragana Gordic/ Shutterstock Around 25% of hay fever sufferers in the UK are allergic to birch tree pollen. This means that for a good chunk of the population,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Kevin Anderson, Professor of Energy and Climate Change, University of Manchester Aerial-motion/Shutterstock We’re now halfway through the UK government’s critical decade for tackling climate change – and 2025 is fast becoming a year of climate U-turns. Airport expansions have been approved, the phaseout of gas-fired boilers…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jason Gilchrist, Lecturer in the School of Applied Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University Japan’s famous snow macaques are an exception among primates today. But our early ancestors often lived through weather like this. R7 Photo / shutterstock Most people imagine our early primate ancestors swinging through lush…