Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Justin Stebbing, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University Jo Panuwat D/Shutterstock Every few months, a new “miracle cure” for cancer trends on social media. From superfoods and supplements to extreme diets, the promises are always bold – and almost always misleading. The latest claim suggests…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Lucy E. Hyde, Lecturer, Anatomy, University of Bristol Gabriel Falloppius explaining one of his discoveries to the Cardinal Duke of Ferrara WellcomeTrust, CC BY-SA Buried in your body is a tribute to a long-dead Italian anatomist, and he is not the only one. You are walking…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Caroline Bond, Professor of Education, Manchester University Hryshchyshen Serhii/Shutterstock Pupils with special educational needs and disabilities are twice as likely as their peers to be persistently absent from school. Persistent absence means that they miss up to 10% of school sessions (sessions are a morning or…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By John Wyver, Professor of the Arts on Screen, University of Westminster The BBC’s Written Archives Centre (WAC) is housed in an unassuming bungalow on the outskirts of Reading, 40 miles west of London. It holds one of the greatest document collections of British and global history…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Helen Abnett, Research Fellow, University of Hertfordshire Roman Samborskyi/Shutterstock Autism charities are important organisations. They provide essential services for autistic people, influence policy decisions, and often speak on behalf of autistic people. This means that how these charities write about autistic people may influence how society…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Eoin Daly, Lecturer Above The Bar, School of Law, University of Galway Ireland is set to have a new president in the form of Catherine Connolly, an independent leftwing TD for Galway, and former deputy speaker of the Dáil. The presidential election campaign was a colourful…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Russell Field, Associate Professor, Sport and Physical Activity, University of Manitoba Late on an October Monday night, George Springer smashed a three-run homer to send nearly 45,000 fans in Toronto’s Rogers Centre — and a record national television audience — into a frenzy. Six outs…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Helen Abnett, Research Fellow, University of Hertfordshire Roman Samborskyi/Shutterstock Autism charities are important organisations. They provide essential services for autistic people, influence policy decisions, and often speak on behalf of autistic people. This means that how these charities write about autistic people may influence how society…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Aleh Cherp, Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Central European University Just 1% of the world’s coastal waters could, in theory, generate enough offshore wind and solar power to provide a third of the world’s electricity by 2050. That’s the promise highlighted in a new…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Kate Spencer, Professor of Environmental Geochemistry, Queen Mary University of London Dotted Yeti/Shutterstock Think of ocean plastic and you may picture bottles and bags bobbing on the waves, slowly drifting out to sea. Yet the reality is more complex and far more persistent. Even if we…