Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Penelope Jackson, Adjunct Research Associate, School of Social Work and Arts, Charles Sturt University The world’s largest art museum, the Louvre has approximately half a million objects in its collection, with about 30,000 on display, and sees on average 8 million visitors per year. That’s…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Matthew Barnfield, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London And if you look way over there, you can just about see the light at the end of this long tunnel. Flickr/Number10, CC BY-NC-ND Whatever the Labour government is doing,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Penelope Jackson, Adjunct Research Associate, School of Social Work and Arts, Charles Sturt University The world’s largest art museum, the Louvre has approximately half a million objects in its collection, with about 30,000 on display, and sees on average 8 million visitors per year. That’s…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Kirsten Banks, Lecturer, School of Science, Computing and Engineering Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology SpaceX Crew-2 flight in 2021. SpaceX, CC BY-NC For roughly 4.5 billion years, the Moon has kept Earth company. In the much shorter span of time that humans have been around,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Aislinn Clarke, Lecturer in Film Studies, Queen’s University Belfast When I think of my first encounter with horror, I don’t think of a vampire, a witch, or even a possessed girl’s head spinning round (I saw The Exorcist at the age of seven). I think of…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Aislinn Clarke, Lecturer in Film Studies, Queen’s University Belfast When I think of my first encounter with horror, I don’t think of a vampire, a witch, or even a possessed girl’s head spinning round (I saw The Exorcist at the age of seven). I think of…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Rachael Garrett, Moran Professor of Conservation and Development, University of Cambridge Tarcisio Schnaider/Shutterstock The vast tropical forest nations of Brazil and Indonesia are both home to millions of people, including Indigenous communities. They store enormous amounts of carbon to protect our climate and are home to…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Rebecca A. Drummond, Professor, Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham The most common fungal species found in our mycobiome are yeast from the _Candida_ family. Kateryna Kon/ Shutterstock The “gut microbiome” has become a popular health term in recent years. It’s easy to see why, with…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Manuel Corpas, Lecturer in Genomics, University of Westminster In some regions, youth mortality has actually risen in the past decade. KieferPix/ Shutterstock Global mortality continues to fall. Life expectancy has improved to unprecedented levels and deaths in young children have plummeted. Yet for adolescents and young…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Manuel Corpas, Lecturer in Genomics, University of Westminster In some regions, youth mortality has actually risen in the past decade. KieferPix/ Shutterstock Global mortality continues to fall. Life expectancy has improved to unprecedented levels and deaths in young children have plummeted. Yet for adolescents and young…