By Adam Kadlac, Teaching Professor of Philosophy, Wake Forest University
It’s one thing to pull for your national team when patriotism feels uncomplicated. It’s quite another when you aren’t feeling very proud to be an American.
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By Christina Hennemann, PhD Candidate Creative Writing and Abortion Poetics, University of Limerick
I moved to Ireland in 2019, a year after abortion had become legal. As a woman born and raised in Germany, reproductive rights had never been a concern for me. I knew that if needed it, I had the option of termination.
I wasn’t aware of my privilege at the time. But when I made Ireland my home, I realised the weight of choosing to live in a country with such a conflicted relationship with reproductive rights.
Legalisation only marks the beginning of processing historical trauma, as well as ensuring…
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By Ross Channing Reed, Assistant Teaching Professor of Philosophy, Missouri University of Science and Technology
For the Greeks, sophrosyne was an ideal second to none. It’s just as important today, in an age of internet addiction and misinformation – but harder to come by.
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By Charlie Firth, PhD Candidate, Paediatrics, University of Oxford
Tensions have recently emerged around the Ebola response in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). These tensions have manifested in a series of incidents, including the burning of an Ebola treatment facility in Mongbwalu, confrontations involving families seeking to reclaim the bodies…
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By Gretchen Chapman, Professor of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
A Carnegie Mellon researcher explains the connection between our brains and AI chatbots – and what a new Pennsylvania lawsuit reveals about the dangers of AI.
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By Adam Gallaher, Assistant Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies, Central Michigan University
Generating solar power requires a lot of land – but which land should it be? And what else can be done on that land?
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By Katie Parsons, Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Loughborough University
As the UK gets hotter, children will seek water to cool down. The real question is why so many have so few places to go.
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By Michaela Pagel, Associate Professor of Finance, Washington University in St. Louis
The more Epstein-connected directors a company had, no matter its size, the more likely it was to have governance problems.
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By Oli Buckley, Professor in Cyber Security, Loughborough Cyber Institute, Loughborough University
Starting next year, the Home Office plans to use AI-driven facial age estimation to assess the age of asylum seekers. At the UK border, deciding whether someone is 17 or 19 is a consequential judgment. Get it wrong one way, and a vulnerable child loses legal protections they’re entitled to. But if it’s wrong in the other direction, then an adult enters a system designed for minors.
Is this technology ready for such a high-stakes decision?
Facial…
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By Anna Walker, Senior Arts + Culture Editor, The Conversation
Our picks for this week include a film where internet folklore comes to life, books to lose yourself in and a eerie landscape exhibition.
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