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Happy
new year from The Conversation’s international network. At
least twice a week in 2024, this newsletter will publish
digests of some of the best content produced by leading
scholars working with our team of editors around the globe.
Here, and on the international
home page, you can keep abreast of academic research that
is shaping our understanding of the world, as well as informed
analysis of key events.
Signing
up for this free newsletter is the ideal way for everyone
to listen to and read valuable, and fascinating, academic
research. So please, do forward this to friends and colleagues
and encourage them to “join The Conversation”. It’s the
perfect new year’s resolution. |
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Stephen Khan
Global Executive Editor, The
Conversation | |
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Europeans are having to learn how to live alongside predators
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Two hurdles mRNA drugs face are a short
half-life and impurities that trigger immune responses. BlackJack3D/iStock via Getty Images
Plus
Li Li, UMass Chan Medical School
The
COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the promise of using mRNA as
medicine. But before mRNA drugs can go beyond vaccines,
researchers need to identify the right diseases to
treat. |
Many commercial fishing boats do not report
their positions at sea or are not required to do so. Alex Walker via Getty Images
Jennifer Raynor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
A
new study reveals that 75% of the world’s industrial fishing
vessels are hidden from public view. |
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Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham;
Tetyana Malyarenko, National University Odesa Law
Academy
The
Ukrainian president has called for another half a
million troops this year and his government has
introduced strict conscription laws in an attempt to
deter draft-dodging.
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Abby Chandler, UMass Lowell
What
might appear to be common values about shared
political and cultural identities can at times serve
not as a bridge joining people together but a wedge
driving them apart.
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Steffen W. Schmidt, Iowa State University
A
political scientist traces the development of the
first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses and how the small,
rural state became influential in presidential
politics.
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Edward Armstrong, University of Helsinki
The
Sahara Desert is green and vegetated every 21,000
years. A climate model shows why.
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Ari Mattes, University of Notre Dame
Australia
Peter
Benchley’s classic 1974 ‘man versus beast’ blockbuster
novel doubled as a scathing critique of 1970s America.
Spielberg’s film made its characters likeable
– and its tone into a ‘grand adventure’.
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Darius von Guttner Sporzynski, Australian
Catholic University
A
team of archaeologists discovered the remains of the
16th-century father of modern astronomy, who
demonstrated that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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Julien Benoit, University of the
Witwatersrand; Cameron Penn-Clarke, University of the
Witwatersrand; Charles Helm, Nelson Mandela University
Some
time between 1100 and 1700 AD, a Massospondylus bone
was discovered and carried to a rock shelter in
Lesotho. | |
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Subject: Join The Conversation this year
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