Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Dan van den Hoek, Senior Lecturer, Clinical Exercise Physiology, University of the Sunshine Coast monika kabise JeCVBSpS xU unsplash Monika Kabise/Unsplash You don’t need a gym membership, dumbbells, or expensive equipment to get stronger. Since the beginning of time, we’ve had access to the one…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Gilles E. Gignac, Associate Professor of Psychology, The University of Western Australia As your youth fades further into the past, you may start to fear growing older. But research my colleague and I have recently published in the journal Intelligence shows there’s also very good…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Joseph Mellors, Research Associate in Management and Marketing, University of Westminster icemanphotos/Shutterstock If you ask an AI service like ChatGPT or Google Gemini to recommend a destination for your next summer holiday, it will happily provide you with a list of attractive destinations. But many of…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Julia Shaw, Research Associate, Criminal Psychology, UCL After years of trying to understand the minds of people who hurt others, I have recently turned my attention as a criminal psychologist from violent crimes to the less well-known world of green crime. While researching for my new…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Laura Standen, Doctoral Researcher, Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University of London DimaBerlin/Shutterstock Everyone gets headaches. Everyone misplaces their phone or forgets a name now and then. Most of the time, these moments are harmless – the result of stress, fatigue, or just a…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Colleen Murrell, Chair of the Editorial Board, and Full Professor in Journalism, Dublin City University The world’s media are currently busy recording the tales of released Israeli hostages, freed Palestinian prisoners and their families after a ceasefire came into effect for the war in Gaza. But…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By John Flint, Professor of Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield Between 2007 and 2010 Southwark council licensed 76 films to be shot on the high-rise Heygate estate in London’s Walworth area, providing a gritty backdrop for dramas of poverty and crime. This “theatre of stigma”,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Aimee Grant, Associate Professor in Public Health and Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow, Swansea University shutterstock PeopleImages/Shutterstock Around a third of autistic people – children and adults alike – are unable to share what they want using speech. You may have heard the term “non-verbal” to…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By David Hastings Dunn, Professor of International Politics in the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham Following the Middle East summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Donald Trump’s Gaza ceasefire deal has been compared in the media to the Good Friday agreement which brought an…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Marie Inger Dam, Researcher, Biotechnology, Lund University This moth was genetically engineered to be unable to attract a mate. Kristina Brauburger A single “sexy” gene could help us combat one of the world’s most destructive fruit pests. By deleting the gene that lets female moths produce…