Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Anna Kenyon, Senior Lecturer in Population Health, University of Lancashire The brain needs time off, too. baranq/ Shutterstock Every day, we’re faced with constant opportunities for stimulation. With 24/7 access to news feeds, emails and social media, many of us find ourselves scrolling endlessly, chasing our…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Mooyoung Han, Professor of Environmental Engineering, Seoul National University The rain gauge with a statue of King Sejong the Great in Seoul, Korea. KoreaKHW/Shutterstock Droughts and floods are becoming more frequent and more severe across the globe. The cause is often rain — either too little…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jenna Carr, Graduate Teaching Fellow and Sociology PhD Researcher, University of Liverpool ThomasDeco/Shutterstock A decade ago, the National Crime Agency identified a new drug supply method. Before then, drug supply was predominantly between user-dealers – people supplying their social circles to fund their drug use, rather…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Christopher Holliday, Senior Lecturer in Liberal Arts and Visual Cultures Education, Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities, King’s College London Development of a new James Bond film is underway at Amazon Studios, with the creater of Peaky Blinders, Steven Knight, now attached to write the screenplay, which will…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Colin Manning, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Climate Science, Newcastle University Storm Floris made landfall in northern parts of the UK on the morning of Monday August 4 2025, bringing intense rainfall followed by severe winds throughout the afternoon. The Met Office issued an amber weather warning…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Ryan Davey, Lecturer in Social Sciences, Cardiff University Thomas Andre Fure/Shutterstock You get a payment reminder through the letterbox, maybe for a credit card, an overdraft, a bill, or a parking fine. You ignore it and leave the envelope unopened, or put it to one side…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Anastasia Topalidou, Research Fellow (Perinatal Biomechanics and Health Technologies), University of Lancashire Photo by Jonathan Borba, CC BY-SA Maternal and newborn deaths are rising globally, not just in low- and middle-income countries, but in wealthy nations too. Researchers have described the situation as a “global failure”…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Adam J Smith, Associate Professor in 18th-century Literature, York St John University From the pompous vanity of Sir Walter Elliot in Persuasion (1817), to the shallow reading habits of Isabella in Northanger Abbey (1817), few characters in the works of Jane Austen are spared the gentle…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Faek Menla Ali, Associate Professor in Finance, University of Sussex More than a decade of devastating conflict has left Syria’s economy in tatters, its infrastructure in ruins and its population deeply fragmented. The fledgling transitional government in Damascus, which came to power following a lightning rebel…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Andrew Sinclair, Deputy Director of the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute World Athletics president Sebastian Coe recently announced a new rule for women athletes, requiring mandatory genetic tests to verify their biological sex. This test must be done if athletes wish to…