Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Michael Smith, Associate Professor of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle In Gateshead, north-east England, a solar park provides electricity for a mine water heat pump that provides district heating. Graeme J Baty/Shutterstock Around a quarter of UK homes lie on disused coalfields. These abandoned coal mines are…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Dipa Kamdar, Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, Kingston University A few everyday habits play a major role in pancreatic damage. carlesmiro/Shutterstock The pancreas is essential for staying alive and healthy. This small organ sits behind the stomach and has two main jobs. It produces digestive enzymes…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Paul Whiteley, Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex The resounding victories in recent elections by Democrats Zohran Mamdani in New York, Abigail Spanberger in Virginia and Mikie Sherrill in New Jersey has reinvigorated the party after a dismal year since Donald Trump became president. The…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Luo Mai, Reader at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh It’s becoming increasingly difficult to make today’s artificial intelligence (AI) systems work at the scale required to keep advancing. They require enormous amounts of memory to ensure all their processing chips can quickly share all…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Ruth Barton, Fellow Emeritus in Film Studies, Trinity College Dublin The scandal of the religious-run Magdalene laundries, where young women deemed to have offended the moral code of the Catholic Church were incarcerated and put to work, is a stain on the public history of the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Zaya Rustamova, Associate Professor of Spanish, Kennesaw State University A protester holds a banner with pictures of people who went missing during the Spanish dictatorship of Francisco Franco. John Milner/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images In the run-up to the 50th anniversary of Francisco Franco’s death…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Andy Hogg, Professor and Director of ACCESS-NRI, Australian National University Arash Hedieh/Unspalsh Over the past week we’ve witnessed the many political discussions that go with the territory of a COP – or, more verbosely, the “Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Gerard Toal, Professor of Government and International Affairs, Virginia Tech World leaders clap as, from left, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, Croat President Franjo Tudjman and Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic sign the Dayton Peace Agreement. Peter Turnley/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images On Nov. 21, 1995, in the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Awni Etaywe, Lecturer in Linguistics | Forensic Linguist Analysing Cyber Terrorism, Threatening Communications and Incitement | Media Researcher Investigating How Language Shapes Peace, Compassion and Empathy, Charles Darwin University Words are powerful tools. Violent extremists know this well, often choosing their phrasing extremely carefully to…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Festival Godwin Boateng, Senior Research Associate, University of Oxford Travelling on Africa’s roads comes with many challenges. The biggest is arriving at your destination safely. The continent is one of the hotspots of global road trauma. Its traffic deaths account for about one quarter of…