Category: The Conversation
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One Battle After Another: this insane movie about leftwing radicals and rightwing institutions is a powerful exploration of US today
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Ruth Barton, Professor in Film Studies, Trinity College Dublin The recent death of Robert Redford was a reminder of just how much All the President’s Men unsettled old certainties about American democracy. An exposé of the Watergate scandal of 1972 (when members of the campaign to…
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Russia is turning to African women and conscripted North Koreans to tackle its defence worker shortage
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jennifer Mathers, Senior Lecturer in International Politics, Aberystwyth University US president Donald Trump has said Ukraine could win back all of the territory it has lost in the ongoing war, but Russia’s president Vladimir Putin shows no signs of wanting a peace deal, or reducing the…
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Information could be a fundamental part of the universe – and may explain dark energy and dark matter
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Florian Neukart, Assistant professor of Physics, Leiden University Credits: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, G. Östlin, P. G. Perez-Gonzalez, J. Melinder, the JADES Collaboration, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb), CC BY-SA For more than a century, physics has been built on two great theories. Einstein’s general relativity explains gravity…
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Is meat masculine? How men really talk about being carnivores
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Annayah Prosser, Assistant Professor in Marketing, Business and Society, University of Bath Cast Of Thousands/Shutterstock There are lots of good reasons not to eat meat or dairy products. It might be for your health or for the sake of the environment. Or you might have moral…
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Despite Google’s recent victory, a flurry of competition cases could still change how the tech giants do business
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Ioannis Kokkoris, Professor of Competition Law and Economics, Queen Mary University of London A US judge recently decided not to break up Google, despite a ruling last year that the company held a monopoly in the online search market. Between Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Meta,…
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Neuroscience finds musicians feel pain differently from the rest of us
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Anna M. Zamorano, Assistant Professor, Aarhus University Irek Pod/Shutterstock.com It’s well known that learning to play an instrument can offer benefits beyond just musical ability. Indeed, research shows it’s a great activity for the brain – it can enhance our fine motor skills,language acquisition, speech, and…
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Blood, bruises and belief: how England’s women’s rugby team embody physical and mental endurance
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Helen Owton, Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology, The Open University France v England Women’s Rugby World Cup Semi Final 2025 Photo by Alex Davidson – World Rugby/World Rugby via Getty Images As women’s sport surges on the global stage, hosts England have lit up…
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Why slugs are so hard to control – and how scientists are working to keep them in check
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Sergei Petrovskii, Professor of Applied Mathematics , University of Leicester Most people aren’t keen on sharing their salad with a slug. Lisa-S/Shutterstock Almost everyone who has a garden knows what a nuisance slugs can be. They are also one of the most destructive crop pests in…
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A contemporary history of Britain’s far right – and how it helps explain why so many people went to the Unite the Kingdom rally in London
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Aaron Edwards, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Leicester The recent “Unite the Kingdom” rally in London shows how easy it is for the radical right to mobilise a mass protest by repackaging a perennial issue as a moral panic. It did so by fusing together fears…
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The Biggest Loser: how an aggressive entertainment culture normalised body-shaming
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Freya Gowrley, Lecturer in History of Art and Liberal Arts, University of Bristol The Netflix documentary Fit for TV: The Reality of the Biggest Loser raises questions around the ethics of one the most popular US reallity TV series of the 2000s. From claims about the…