Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Mehebub Sahana, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Geography, University of Manchester The Ganges flows through ancient Varanasi, a holy city in Hinduism. Yavuz Sariyildiz / shutterstock The Ganges, a lifeline for hundreds of millions across South Asia, is drying at a rate scientists say is unprecedented in…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By David Curran, Research Fellow: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding, Coventry University The assembled United Nations dignitaries gave Donald Trump 13 seconds of applause as he approached the podium for his address to the 80th anniversary general debate on September 23. They clapped for 20 seconds when he finished…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Robyn Arianrhod, Affiliate, School of Mathematics, Monash University MirageC / Getty Images The Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who was born 220 years ago last month, is famous for carving some mathematical graffiti into Dublin’s Broome Bridge in 1843. But in his lifetime,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Nial Wheate, Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University The US government has announced controversial guidance on the prevention and treatment of autism in children. New health recommendations aim to discourage pregnant women from taking the painkiller paracetamol – also known as acetaminophen and by…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Suzy Freeman-Greene, Books + Ideas Editor, The Conversation Penguin Books, Goodreads, Harper Collins, Text Publishing Literature has long portrayed messed-up families. As poet Philip Larkin famously wrote, “They fuck you up, your mum and dad. / They may not mean to, but they do.” In…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Lister Staveley-Smith, Professor at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), The University of Western Australia A composite image shows a diffuse ‘bridge’ of gas linking two dwarf galaxies. ICRAR, N. Deg, Legacy Surveys (D.Lang / Perimeter Institute) Most of the ordinary matter in…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne Roberto Schmidt/Getty United States President Donald Trump is well advanced in his systematic campaign to undermine the American media and eviscerate its function of holding him and others in power to account.…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Olivia Carpenter, Lecturer in Literature, University of York Jane Austen penned the last sentences of her unfinished manuscript for the novel we know as Sanditon in March 1817 before she died that July. Like me, many Austen fans often stumble upon this work after they have…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Bob Walley, Researcher in Climate Change Engagement and Communication, University of Lancashire A protestor outside Preston New Road Fracking Site in Lancashire. Bob Walley, CC BY-NC-ND “Get a job!” shouted yet another driver going past me in the sweeping rain outside Preston New Road fracking site,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Serena Dyer, Associate Professor, Fashion History, De Montfort University Marie Antoinette (1755 to 1793) is a cultural icon of monumental proportions. She was the last queen of France before the brutal and bloody French Revolution, and her life was ended by the revolutionaries’ guillotine blade. Her…