Could Snapchat’s Biggest Selling Point Now Be Its Downfall ?
By Rebecca Merden in The Conversation. When Snapchat launched in 2011, ephemerality was its unique selling point. Its self-destructing photo and video messages were a stark departure from...
View ArticleWhy People Believe In Conspiracy Theories – And How To Change Their Minds
By Mark Lorch in The Conversation. I’m sitting on a train when a group of football fans streams on. Fresh from the game – their team has clearly won – they occupy the empty seats around me. One...
View ArticleWhy Onions Make Us Cry (And Why Some Don’t)
By Duane Mellor in The Conversation. Mark Anthony in Shakespeare’s Cleopatra may have referred to “the tears that live in the onion”. But why do onions actually make us cry? And why do only some...
View ArticleWhat It’s Like To Transition On To Universal Credit
By Peter Dwyer and Sharon Wright in The Conversation. Originally designed with the intention of “making work pay” by smoothing out transitions between paid work and welfare, Universal Credit is now...
View ArticleTom Petty Stood Up For Authentic Rock Music – And He Never Backed Down
By Adam Behr in The Conversation. The most watched video on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s YouTube Channel – at over 46m views – is a cover version of the Beatles’ While My Guitar Gently Weeps....
View ArticleWhat If Antarctica’s Dormant, Ice-Covered Volcanoes Wake Up ?
By John Smellie in The Conversation. Antarctica is a vast icy wasteland covered by the world’s largest ice sheet. This ice sheet contains about 90% of fresh water on the planet. It acts as a...
View ArticleHow Healthy Is The French Health System ?
Laurent Chambaud in The Conversation. Among themselves the French can be highly critical of the care provided by their nation’s hospitals and doctors, yet they are always ready to defend the...
View ArticleWhy (ex)Hurricane Ophelia Took A Wrong Turn Towards Ireland And Britain – And...
By Alexander Roberts in The Conversation. Hurricane Ophelia, by then downgraded to Storm Ophelia, reached Ireland on Monday October 16. At the time of writing there had already been three deaths...
View ArticleSurprising Facts About How We Talk To Babies
By Caspar Addyman in The Conversation. Here’s an experiment to try next time you meet a baby, try holding a normal conversation. It is very difficult, isn’t it? Yes it is! Oh, yes it is! When we...
View ArticleI explored the Antarctic Deep Seas For Blue Planet II – And It Was Like Going...
By Jon Copley in The Conversation. “It has always been our ambition to get inside that white space, and now we are there the space can no longer be blank,” wrote the polar explorer Captain Scott,...
View ArticleThe Biological Reason Why It’s So Hard For Teenagers To Wake Up Early For School
By Paul Kelley in The Conversation. In societies the world over, teenagers are blamed for staying up late, then struggling to wake up in the morning. While it’s true that plenty of teenagers (like...
View ArticleLessons Learned From Imposing Performance-Related Pay On Teachers
By Simon Burgess in The Conversation. One of the toughest subjects in classrooms at the moment is the recruitment and retention of teachers. Their level of pay is often cited as a problem – and...
View ArticleWhy The Annual Winter Health Crisis Could Be Solved In Homes, Not Hospitals
By Richard Morris in The Conversation. As winter continues, so does the usual soul searching about the state of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). Images of ambulances backing up outside...
View ArticleOracles And Models: Ancient And Modern Ways Of Telling The Future
By Esther Eidinow in The Conversation. When something unexpected happens to us we still tend to ask “why me?” – and it’s difficult to know where to look for an answer. While scientific analysis can...
View ArticleThe Key To Treating Multiple Sclerosis Could Be Inside Sufferers’ Own Bodies
By Chris McMurran in The Conversation. Fat often gets a bad press, but if it didn’t coat the cables that connect our neurons, we’d be in a lot of trouble. Sufferers of multiple sclerosis and a host...
View ArticleCardigans And Anoraks Won’t Cut It: Why There Should Be More Fashion For...
By Ania Sadkowska and Katherine Townsend in The Conversation. Now we find ourselves nearly drawing pensions and thinking what? What now? Put a cardigan on and grey shoes? Is there an age when you...
View ArticleHow To Future-Proof The NHS – Copy The Bank Of England
By Anne Marie Rafferty and Jonathan Grant in The Conversation. Faced with an ageing population and funding pressures, fresh thinking is needed to brace the NHS for what lies ahead. Perhaps the...
View ArticleGene Therapies Are Proving Their Worth, But With Million Dollar Price Tags,...
By Sterghios Moschos in The Conversation. If you were born with a rare form of blindness, there is now a treatment for you that may restore your eyesight. That’s because gene therapies became a...
View ArticleYou Don’t Need To Build A Rocket To Prove The Earth Isn’t Flat – Here’s The...
By Ian Whitaker in The Conversation. Could 2,000 years of belief be wrong? Are we in fact living on a disc rather than a globe? One believer from the Flat Earth Society is determined to find out....
View ArticleStimulating The Pathway Connecting Body And Brain May Change Chronic...
By Zoe Fisher and Andrew H Kemp in The Conversation. Health and wellbeing is something of a buzz phrase these days. It’s become almost an ideal state: if one takes care of their health and...
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