Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Phil Wilkinson, Principal Academic in Communications, Bournemouth University Damned if you do … Studio Romantic Young teenagers on TikTok can easily access hardcore porn content, a new study has found. By creating fake accounts for 13-year-olds, researchers at the non-governmental organisation Global Witness were quickly offered…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Diogo Veríssimo, Research Fellow in Conservation Marketing, University of Oxford cotosa/Shutterstock They look like tiny monkeys peering out from the mist. Known to scientists as Dracula, the so-called “monkey-face orchids” have become online celebrities. Millions of people have shared their photos, marvelling at flowers that seem…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Esther Kettel, Senior Lecturer in Ecology and Conservation, Nottingham Trent University The Eurasian curlew, a close relative of the now-extinct slender-billed curlew. David Havel/Shutterstock The slender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) has been officially declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). This is the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Lucy E. Hyde, Lecturer, Anatomy, University of Bristol Vector Hut/Shutterstock.com They were pregnant. Some were prisoners. Others were the poorest of the poor, forgotten in death as in life. Yet dissection and depiction of their bodies have become the foundation of anatomical teaching. Cradled in the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Dan Baumgardt, Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol ThalesAntonio/Shutterstock The idea that you can “catch” shingles is one of the more common misconceptions I hear from patients who arrive worried they’ve got it. Often, they’ve recently been near a child with chickenpox…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Beth Johnson, Professor of Television & Media Studies, University of Leeds Sally Wainwright’s new BBC drama Riot Women opens not with music, but with the sound of ice clinking in a glass and tonic fizzing as it’s poured over gin. Beth (Joanna Scanlan) calmly prepares to…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jen Harvie, Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Performance, Queen Mary University of London American film actress Diane Keaton, who has died aged 79, was an icon of style but also character. She challenged the boundaries and range of what it was possible for women to play…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Samuel Shaw, Lecturer in History of Art, The Open University Ox-eye daises in Ismore meadow, Attingham Park, Shropshire. Samuel Shaw, CC BY-NC-ND Earlier this year I found myself stood among a sea of swaying ox-eye daises in a floodplain meadow on the Attingham estate in Shropshire,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Chris Waugh, Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology, Manchester Metropolitan University WPixz/Shutterstock When Andrew (not his real name) lost his job during the COVID-19 pandemic, he turned to work as a courier. His days became a slog – cycling for hours in rain or shine, juggling Deliveroo,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Rosie Young, PhD Candidate, Gut Microbes in Health and Disease, Quadram Institute Burnt Red Hen/Shutterstock.com Lifting weights just two or three times a week can significantly change the trillions of bacteria living in your gut, and it might happen in as little as eight weeks. That’s…