Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Lucy Sors, Senior Lecturer, York St John University Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock The UK government’s strategy for early years education in England aims to get children in reception “school-ready”. But what school readiness means is debatable. Education secretary Bridget Phillipson has pointed out that half of reception-aged children “can’t…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Francesco Grillo, Academic Fellow, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University Nearly three decades after the first UN climate conference, emissions are still rising. The global system for tackling climate change is broken – it’s slow, cumbersome and undemocratic. Even Donald Trump may not be…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Marc Collinson, Lecturer in Political History, Bangor University Caerphilly castle is the second largest castle in the UK Ceri Breeze/Shutterstock When voters in Caerphilly in south Wales go to the polls later this month, it will be about far more than one seat in the Senedd,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Ligin Joseph, PhD Candidate, Oceanography, University of Southampton Across India, torrential rains over the past few months have swallowed an entire village in the Himalayas, flooded Punjab’s farmlands and brought Kolkata to a standstill. This all happened in a monsoon season in which total rainfall was…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Frances Fowle, Personal Chair of Nineteenth-Century Art, History of Art, University of Edinburgh The Van Gogh Museum’s new exhibition, Van Gogh and the Roulins – Together Again at Last, celebrates an important family reunion. It brings together 14 portraits of the wife and three children of…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Dan Gordon, Professor of Exercise Physiology, Anglia Ruskin University Quadrobics puts all four limbs to work. Okrasiuk/ Shutterstock Instead of wasting hours squatting weights in the gym or pounding miles of pavement in your running shoes, you could instead get all the benefits of a workout…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Gwyn McClelland, Senior Lecturer, Japanese Studies, University of New England At first, there might not seem to be any immediate similarities between a devastated Nagasaki after the US atomic bombing in 1945 and Gaza today, aside from massive destruction. But in considering Gaza’s recovery from…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Philip C. Almond, Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland In a series of four lectures, Silicon Valley tech billionaire Peter Thiel has been opining on the Antichrist. Thiel’s amateur riffing identifies the Antichrist with anyone or any institution that…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By George Buchanan, Deputy Dean, School of Computing Technologies, RMIT University The hope of the world wide web, according to its creator Tim Berners-Lee, was that it would make communication easier, bring knowledge to all, and strengthen democracy and connection. Instead, it seems to be driving…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Renaud Joannes-Boyau, Professor in Geochronology and Geochemistry, Southern Cross University A 2 million-year-old tooth of an early human ancestor. Fiorenza and Joannes-Boyau When we think of lead poisoning, most of us imagine modern human-made pollution, paint, old pipes, or exhaust fumes. But our new study,…