Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Justin Stebbing, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University Each grey hair may be a sign that a cell has chosen to stop replicating rather than risk turning malignant. Pixel-Shot/ Shutterstock Grey hair is an inevitable hallmark of ageing. It’s a visual reminder of the passing…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Natasha Lindstaedt, Professor in the Department of Government, University of Essex A pelican in the Dalamtian delta, where a massive rewilding project is taking place. Neil Aldridge/Rewilding Ukraine. Ukrainians have always felt closely tied to their land, often expressing this through literature and folktales. But these…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Melanie Griffiths, Associate Professor, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham In an effort to end the use of hotels to house asylum seekers, the UK government has announced that 900 people will be moved to military sites. Though this is a small…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Chris Waiting, Chief Executive Officer, The Conversation Professor Nishan Canagarajah, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester, is to step down as Chair of The Conversation Trust UK’s Board of Trustees at the end of 2025, after four years in the role. I have had the privilege…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Steven David Pickering, Honorary Professor, International Relations, Brunel University of London Shutterstock/aniqpixel New survey evidence from the UK and Japan shows people are open to MPs using AI as a tool, but deeply resistant to handing over democratic decisions to machines. Artificial intelligence is creeping into…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Hannah Hughes, Senior Lecturer International Politics and Climate Change, Aberystwyth University Belem, Brazil. Pedro Magrod/Shutterstock For two weeks during November, countries are coming together in the city of Belém in Brazil to negotiate their responses to climate change. This will be the 30th UN climate summit,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Justin Stebbing, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University irina2511/Shutterstock A group of scientists in the UK recently demanded that bacon and ham products carry health warnings similar to those on cigarettes. These experts argue that these meats, which are often preserved with chemicals called nitrites,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Franziska Weinmar, PhD Candidate, Women’s Mental Health & Brain Function, University of Tübingen This latest research may make it possible to identify those more vulnerable to perinatal depression. AnnaStills/ Shutterstock Around one in five mothers experience perinatal depression. This condition involves depressive episodes during pregnancy or…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Bran Nicol, Professor of English, University of Surrey Some writers appear so accurate in their assessment of where society and technology is taking us that they have attracted the label “prophet”. Think of J. G. Ballard, Octavia E. Butler, Marshall McLuhan, or Donna Haraway. One of…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Giulia Sciorati, LSE Fellow in International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science China’s president, Xi Jinping, during the G20 summit in Hangzhou, China, in 2016. Gil Corzo / Shutterstock Protests erupted in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, in October 2020 following disputed parliamentary elections.…