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The Conversation : "Does Canada’s future lie with Europe?"

On April 8, 2025

Amid political uncertainty and in a changing world, Canada would benefit from strengthening its ties with the European Union.
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The Conversation : "The threat of indifference to poverty, environmental damage and disease – and what it will take to reinvent international solidarity"

On March 10, 2025

The Trump administration’s sudden freeze of funding for USAID is an immediate disaster, but the economic model for international solidarity has been outdated for a long time.
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The Conversation : "Bogus scientific papers are enriching fraudsters and slowing lifesaving medical research"

On February 7, 2025

The world’s library of scientific papers is becoming contaminated as fraudsters use ‘paper mills’ to game scholarly publishing for profit.
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The Conversation : "Problematic Paper Screener: Trawling for fraud in the scientific literature"

On January 31, 2025

Science sleuths are stepping up efforts to detect bogus science papers. This includes building tools that comb through millions of journal articles for signs of tortured phrases spawned by AI.
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The Conversation : "Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research"

On January 31, 2025

‘Paper mills’ are contaminating the world’s scholarly output with fake papers that hinder research. Lifesaving biomedical fields are especially hard hit.
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The Conversation : "What CO₂ ‘jumps’ from Antarctic ice say about climate change"

On November 15, 2024

The equivalent of four more years of global CO₂ emissions could soon be released into the atmosphere, exacerbating climate change.
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The Conversation : "People believe lab animals have less mental capacity than other animals, research shows"

On October 8, 2024

Telling people an animal is destined for the laboratory makes them take a dimmer view of its mental abilities.
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The Conversation : "How solar storms play havoc with our lives"

On August 27, 2024

The Sun gives us light, warmth and, occasionally, tans. But our star also experiences crises and storms that can have very real repercussions on everyday life.
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The Conversation : "We need to talk about Chinese and US influence in Europe’s energy industry"

On May 13, 2024

Taking advantage of Europe’s sovereign debt crisis, outside investors have acquired substantial stakes in what have long been regarded as “sovereign” assets that are critical for the EU’s energy strategy.
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The Conversation : "We reconstructed landscapes that greeted the first humans in Australia around 65,000 years ago"

On April 29, 2024

By detailing the landscape at the time of first humans’ migration into Australia, we can better understand how people travelled and where they settled.
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The Conversation : "Why experts fear the EU’s new migration laws could lead to more deaths at sea"

On April 29, 2024

The EU’s pact signals the bloc’s most ambitious attempt to harmonise its migration policies. Yet, experts sound the alarm over its silence on search-and-rescue operations in the Mediterranean.
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The Conversation : "New unified theory shows how past landscapes drove the evolution of Earth’s rich diversity of life"

On November 30, 2023

For decades, scientists have tried to uncover the cause of long-term changes in Earth’s biodiversity. New simulations point at geography playing a critical role.
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The Conversation : "How Balzac created the myth of the spinster"

On November 9, 2023

In his collection of stories, “The Human Comedy”, the French 19th century writer Honoré de Balzac Honoré de Balzac turned the shaming of single women into an art.
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The Conversation : "Jamais vu: the science behind eerie opposite of déjà vu"

On September 22, 2023

Ever looked at a familiar face and found it suddenly unusual or unknown? You may have had a case of jamais vu.
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The Conversation : "France and Germany clash in race for energy transition"

On July 20, 2023

While EU countries are capable of initiating strong joint actions, a divide is emerging between countries with very different, even antagonistic, decarbonisation strategies.
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The Conversation : "NZ’s proposed pumped storage hydropower project will cost billions - here’s how to make it worthwhile"

On December 15, 2022

If the proposed pumped hydro scheme at Onslow goes ahead and is managed well, it could be a major asset to diversify a low-carbon, self-resilient economy in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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The Conversation : "COP27: how responsible are industrialised countries for climate change?"

On November 14, 2022

The promise of US$100 billion a year for North-South solidarity is now a source of frustration for developing countries.
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The Conversation : "What contemporary feminism owes to Victorian textile workers in Glasgow"

On November 7, 2022

Women in the textile factories of 19th-century Glasgow faced terrible working conditions. In fighting for their rights, they prepared the ground for feminists today.
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The Conversation : "In France, the tough debate about hunting and alcohol"

On October 27, 2022

A recent French Senate report calling on a ban on alcohol use while hunting has prompted the wrath of the country’s hunting lobby. Do its arguments hold water?
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Can we get better at predicting earthquakes?
Given the devastation earthquakes cause, seismologists and public officials have long wanted to know when earthquakes will happen, and after the powerful 1964 Alaska earthquake, U.S. scientists proposed a worldwide resea...
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Rio 2016 (1): an ambitious federal sports policy as the key to success
Now that the Rio Olympics have finished and the Paralympics are due to start on 7 September, let’s have a look back at this landmark event for Brazil from three angles.
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Rio 2016 (2): how did Brazil fare in the sports arena?
Now that the Rio Olympics have finished and the Paralympics are due to start on 7 September, let’s have a look back at this landmark event for Brazil from three angles.
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Rio 2016 (3): what future for Brazil’s sports policy ?
Today we are publishing the third and final section of the series of articles on the period following the Olympics in Brazil.
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The things you remember best happened when you were between 15 and 25 – here’s why
Ask people about memorable things or events that happened during their lives and their recollections tend to be from between the ages of 15 and 25. It doesn’t matter if it’s current affairs, sporting or public events. It...
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How Madrid’s residents are using open-source urban planning to create shared spaces – and build democracy
Born seemingly spontaneously out of a desire to create and manage shared spaces, Madrid's "citizen laboratories" are using new tools to build a new vision of how cities should be planned and run.
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‘Indicator frenzy’ : the ‘economicist’ tendency of public policy and alternative indicators
The craze for measurement has become a hallmark of local and national public policy. Exploring the limits of quantification allows us to understand the advantages of developing alternative indicators.
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Time for a global agreement on minerals to fuel the clean energy transition
In the decades ahead, our mineral supply will still need to double or triple to meet the demand for electric vehicles and other renewable energy technology.
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Designing local well-being indicators: the case of the Grenoble metropolitan area
In France, research on local indicators’ inadequacies led a group of stakeholders and researchers in Grenoble to develop an alternative that focuses on social well-being and sustainability.
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Productive cities: toward a new biopolitics of cities
With the rise of the knowledge-based economy, fab labs, maker spaces and more, cities are being transformed into production centres. This dynamic movement is ripe with promise, but also has risks.
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What should be the EU policy for Mediterranean ‘third places’?
More than 320 coworking spaces were identified in the regions studied during the COWORKMed project.
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The Conversation : "Are joint custody and shared parenting a child’s right ?"
Reflection on the best interests of the child, adapted to the living conditions of 21st century children, is needed to replace "traditional" practices.
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The Conversation : "Debate: Mobilizing collective intelligence for the ecological transition"
Rapid and massive degradation of our environment is a major threat for the future. Surprisingly, education is not mobilised worldwide to empower children. Fortunately, many initiatives explore how to make students actors...
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The Conversation : "What will work look like in 2030?"
A new RGCS study identifies four possible scenarios about work and management that could be combined over the next decade.
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Why artificial intelligence is likely to take more lives
Beware of the blind use of artificial intelligence: used as a "magic wand", for example in an autonomous car, it presents risks.
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The Conversation : "Facebook’s ‘transparency’ efforts hide key reasons for showing ads"
Rather than revealing an advertiser targeted you by your phone number or email address, Facebook may tell you it showed you a particular ad because you like Facebook. That's not much help.
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The Conversation : "Examining how primates make vowel sounds pushes timeline for speech evolution back by 27 million years"
Spoken language in humans is an intricately woven string of syllables with consonants appended to the syllables' core vowels, so mastering vowels was a key to speech emergence. We believe that our multidisciplinary findi...
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The Conversation : "We are programmed to be lazy"
Do you prefer to sit in front of your television rather than sweat at the gym? Your distant ancestors may well be (a little) responsible for your lack of motivation ...
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The Conversation : "The Schengen zone in the face of coronavirus"
What parallel can be drawn between the Schengen countries' management of the migrant crisis in 2015 and their response to the current health epidemic?
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The Conversation : "Cuba steps up in the fight against coronavirus, at home and around the world"
Cuban medicine is now called upon both to protect the island's population from Covid-19 and to help various foreign countries, including Italy and France.
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The Conversation : "Teachers in France, on the front line of defending the values of the Republic"
The horrific death of Samuel Paty, a history and geography teacher, highlights the importance of the work of educators who are, more than ever, on the front lines of the fight for freedom of expression.
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The Conversation : "The science-fiction scenario of an artificial planet is already here"
A study published in the journal Nature reveals that global mass of goods produced by humankind now exceeds that of all life on earth. This is a stark warning on our growing domination of the planet.
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The Conversation : "Should politicians showcase their own vaccinations to convince the rest of us?"
Using the physical representation of a public figure to provoke an emotional response and encourage a certain action is a well-known strategy. Can it work for the COVID-19 vaccine?
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Back to school: what works to keep children safe from COVID-19 – podcast
Plus, new research into what happens in our brains when we daydream. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
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Published on January 30, 2017
Updated on November 8, 2022

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