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Do women have to be naked to get into museums? Why female artists continue to...
We challenge you to name, off the top of your head, a few women artists exhibited in museums. If male names come more readily to mind, it’s not by chance: women, in art as in many other spheres...
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Azerbaijan’s attacks on Armenian heritage aim to erase an entire culture
Photograph of historic town of Ani, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2016, one of the few cultural enclaves of Armenian origin in Turkey that has not been destroyed. F. Camacho Padilla, Author...
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Your unique smell can provide clues about how healthy you are
fizkes/ShutterstockHundreds of chemicals stream from our bodies into the air every second. These chemicals release into the air easily as they have high vapour pressures, meaning they boil and turn...
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European farmers are angry: addressing root causes would overcome polarisation
On Thursday February 1, I stood side-by-side with the farmers who had taken over Place Luxembourg and the streets adjacent to the European Parliament in Brussels. On my way, long lines of tractors with...
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Giving birth in Sweden: outcomes are worse for foreign-born mothers
Monkey Business Images/ShutterstockSweden has consistently reported some of the lowest rates of maternal and child mortality in the world. Unfortunately, these achievements don’t extend to foreign-born...
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Why retranslate the literary classics?
Retranslations are making their way into book covers.While browsing the shelves of a library or a bookshop in search of the adventures of Gregor Samsa or Raskolnikov, you may be facing an impossible...
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Generation Z may not need mortgages, here’s why
Ground Picture/ShutterstockAsk many Millennials – the generation currently in their late 20s to early 40s – about the possibility of home ownership and they will probably laugh in your face. The idea...
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Who was Robert Badinter, the most important Frenchman of whom you never heard?
At the end of a class on the fundamental principles of law that I was teaching to first-year law students, a group of students approached me and asked: “But who is this Robert Badinter you speak of so...
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The energy transition can be fair, just and inclusive – but the window of...
The global energy transition needs to be just and fair to all, but the chance of that happening is getting slim, says a new report by 22 international researchers. Martin Bergsma/ShutterstockA move...
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Ukraine war: the west is at a crossroads – double down on aid to Kyiv, accept...
In the summer and autumn of 2022, there was much discussion about finding an “off-ramp” to allow Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, a face-saving way out of an unwinnable war. Now, as Ukraine heads...
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Fascist propaganda on the big screen: the history of the NO-DO in Francoist...
Francisco Franco at a sailing regatta in the bay of La Concha in San Sebastián. The even was later broadcast in NO-DO 1028A.Fondo Marín-Kutxa Fototeka, CC BY-SAThe first ever film was shown at the...
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Q&A with Sergei Guriev: ‘The optimistic scenario is the departure of Vladimir...
When Russian economist Sergei Guriev and The Conversation sit down to speak on the morning of 16 February, the news of the death of the opposition leader Alexei Navalny hasn’t yet broke. In fact, we...
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Arsenic in landfills is still leaching into groundwater − 20 years after...
A person takes a sample of water for testing.Irina Kozorog / ShutterstockArsenic has long been considered“the king of poisons.” Films such as “Arsenic and Old Lace” by Frank Capra and “The Name of the...
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The Russia-Ukraine War has caused a staggering amount of cultural destruction...
The ruins of a church in Bohorodychne, Donetsk district, Ukraine, on Jan. 27, 2024.Ignacio Marin/Anadolu via Getty ImagesWar doesn’t just destroy lives. It also tears at the fabric of culture. And in...
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The bog is where forensics and archaeology meet to solve ‘cold cases’
Occasionally, police investigators find themselves announcing archaeological discoveries, rather than criminal findings. In 1984, for example, police oversaw the recovery of the Iron Age bog body (a...
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In Putin’s Russia, the death of Navalny has left the opposition demoralised...
The still mysterious death of Russian opposition figurehead Alexei Navalny was greeted by some Kremlin critics as proof that the era of democratic politics was over in Russia. That any change or reset...
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Poland has opened its arms to nearly 1 million Ukrainian refugees, but will...
Two years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the European landscape has been completely transformed by Ukrainian migrants fleeing their homeland. According to the European Union, around 4.2...
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Macron won’t rule out using western ground troops in Ukraine – but is Nato...
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has said sending western troops to fight in Ukraine “could not be ruled out”. After hosting a meeting of 25 European leaders in Paris on February 26, Macron said...
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The future of work: Why we need to think beyond the hype of the four-day week
Is reducing working hours a sign of progress? Since the 19th century, the number of hours spent at work has been steadily declining in developed countries.The four-day week emerged in the 90s as a...
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Would you drink recycled water?
New Africa / ShutterstockThe wastewater from your home – much like paper and plastic – can be recycled. This is done by sending it, including sewage, either to centralised municipal recycling plants,...
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