Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Rachel Woods, Senior Lecturer in Physiology, University of Lincoln David Prado Perucha/Shutterstock Holidays should be about relaxing, enjoying yourself and making memories – not obsessing over a “perfect” eating plan. A healthy diet is built over months and years, not in a single week (or two).…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Alex Connock, Senior Fellow, Said Business School, University of Oxford ‘Alex meet Alex.’ Midjourney, CC BY-SA Imagine you had an unlimited budget for individual tutors offering hyper-personalised courses that maximised learners’ productivity and skills development. This summer I previewed this idea – with a ridiculous and…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Christophe Ley, Associate professor in Mathematics, University of Luxembourg Marco Iacobucci Epp/Shutterstock Sports coaches have always made decisions based on experience, observation and intuition. But they are increasingly relying on hard evidence. Behind the scenes, a quiet revolution is transforming sport – driven not by human…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By David Hastings Dunn, Professor of International Politics in the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham As a former reality TV star, Donald Trump often gives the impression of playing the part of a US president rather than conducting the business of leading…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Paul Glaister, Professor of Mathematics and Mathematics Education, University of Reading Ground Picture/Shutterstock Mathematics at A-level is going from strength to strength. Maths is the most popular subject choice, and further maths, which is a separate A-level course, has seen the most growth in uptake. Despite…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jason Hickel, Professor at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona oceanfishing/Shutterstock Data from the World Bank suggests that extreme poverty has declined dramatically over the past four decades, from 47% of the world’s population in 1981 to around 10% today. This…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Sander van der Linden, Professor of Social Psychology in Society, University of Cambridge Christopher Penler/Shutterstock.com Modern vaccines have saved over 150 million lives. Yet misinformation about them can still have deadly consequences. A gunman recently opened fire at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Iris Mikulic, Research Assistant, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet Orawan Pattarawimonchai/Shutterstock You have probably heard the phrase “follow your gut” – often used to mean trusting your instinct and intuition. But in the context of the gut-brain axis, the phrase takes on…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Aaron Thierry, PhD Candidate, Social Science, Cardiff University Despite decades of scientists’ warnings about climate and ecological breakdown, record-breaking heat and escalating environmental disasters have become commonplace. Science has been attacked, dismissed and politicised, and the world is accelerating in a terrifying direction. To scientists this…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Matthew Sussex, Associate Professor (Adj), Griffith Asia Institute; and Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University The bizarre summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Alaska should sway all but the most credulous doubters that the White House is more interested in…