Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jeremy Howick, Professor and Director of the Stoneygate Centre for Excellence in Empathic Healthcare, University of Leicester Iryna Pohrebna/Shutterstock.com Artificial intelligence has mastered chess, art and medical diagnosis. Now it’s apparently beating doctors at something we thought was uniquely human: empathy. A recent review published in…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Adriana Marin, Lecturer in International Relations, Coventry University When Claudia Sheinbaum — Mexico’s first woman president — was publicly groped during a walkabout recently, her response was striking in its restraint: “If this happens to the president, where does that leave all the young women in…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Damian Bailey, Professor of Physiology and Biochemistry, University of South Wales Erman Gunes/Shutterstock.com With each breath, four out of every five molecules we inhale are nitrogen. This colourless, odourless gas makes up nearly 80% of the air that sustains us – yet it plays no direct…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Kate Whitman, Research Fellow, Ethical Consumption, Revolution Plastics Institute, University of Portsmouth JasminkaM/Shutterstock Every week, the average UK household throws away dozens of pieces of plastic packaging. When people actually start counting them, they’re often shocked to discover just how much there is. And unfortunately, most…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Claire Hughes, Professor of Psychology, Deputy Director of the Centre For Family Research, University of Cambridge rawpixel.com Generation Alpha is the largest generation ever. Totalling two billion children, it encompasses anybody currently aged 0-15 years old – those born between 2010 and 2025. This is the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Michael Jacobs, Professor of Political Economy, University of Sheffield It is easy to be cynical about the annual circus of UN climate negotiations that takes place at “Cop” – the Conference of the Parties to the UN’s climate convention. As delegates gather in the Amazonian port…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Mark Boylan, Professor of Education, Sheffield Hallam University PeopleImages/Shutterstock Proposed changes to England’s national curriculum aim to ensure it is fit for the future, writes Professor Becky Francis in her introduction to the final report of the government’s independent curriculum review. The panel that conducted the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jamie Thompson, Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology, University of Reading Every mind-bending molecule in nature has an evolutionary origin; a defence against being eaten, a lure for pollinators, or perhaps a happy biochemical accident. Though they seem extraordinary, life has evolved psychedelic molecules that alter consciousness across…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Theo Stanley, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Environmental Geography, University of Southampton Until the end of October, China had refused to purchase a single soya bean from the US’s 2025 harvest. It usually spends tens of billions of dollars on the crop, which is a key ingredient…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Pragya Agarwal, Visiting Professor of Social Inequities and Injustice, Loughborough University The Land Sings Back, a new exhibition at the Drawing Room gallery in London, is a gorgeous evocation of our rights to our lands and our symbiotic relationship with nature. Thirteen artists with ancestral lands…