Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By A.R.E. Taylor, Senior Lecturer in Communications, University of Exeter It’s a sunny June day in southeast England. I’m driving along a quiet, rural road that stretches through the Kent countryside. The sun flashes through breaks in the hedgerow, offering glimpses of verdant crop fields and old…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Antonio Uzal, Associate Professor of Conservation Biology, Nottingham Trent University FotoPro 929 The most gripping week of the bear calendar has arrived. The Fat Bear Week is an annual online competition hosted by Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska. This event, which began in 2014…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Michelle Spear, Professor of Anatomy, University of Bristol Limb lengthening surgery creates an intentional fracture in order to encourage new bone growth. Pixel-Shot/ Shutterstock Would you willingly have your legs broken, the bone stretched apart millimetre by millimetre and then spend months in recovery – all…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Will de Freitas, Environment + Energy Editor, The Conversation In some places, the Caspian Sea has already retreated 50km. S. Melkin / shutterstock This roundup of The Conversation’s climate coverage was first published in our award-winning weekly climate action newsletter, Imagine. Around the world, rivers and…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Francesco Grillo, Academic Fellow, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University Back in November 2023 – a time when it wasn’t even clear that Donald Trump would be allowed to run in the upcoming presidential primaries – the European Union approved a tough new “anti-coercion…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Dan Baumgardt, Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol RA fotografia / Shutterstock.com Diabetes mellitus – known to many as type 1 and type 2 diabetes – gets all the attention with its rising global prevalence and connection to lifestyle and autoimmunity. Meanwhile,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Madeleine J. Meyer, Postgraduate Researcher, Theology and the Arts, University of St Andrews The vampires of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight saga are undoubtedly unique. Never before had vampires been described as having sparkling, diamond-like skin in the sunlight, for example. But Meyer’s Twilight novels, the first of…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Gemma Ware, Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation For months, Donald Trump has badgered the US Federal Reserve and its chair, Jerome Powell, to lower interest rates. When the governors of the Fed did so by 0.25 percentage points in mid-September to a target of…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Mark Lacy, Senior Lecturer, School of Global Affairs, Lancaster University In a speech at the UN headquarters in New York, where world leaders are currently gathered for the organisation’s 80th anniversary, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky warned: “We are now living through the most destructive arms race…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Richard Whitman, Member of the Conflict Analysis Research Centre, University of Kent; Royal United Services Institute Donald Trump appears to have had a major change of heart with regards Ukraine. On the face of it, it looks like he has embraced outright optimism that Kyiv “is…