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Editor's note
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The Conversation has now been publishing in the UK for four years. In May 2013 we rolled out the service, inspired by – and in partnership with – The Conversation that launched in Australia two years earlier.
Fast forward to 2017 and The Conversation continues to champion international journalistic collaboration, having established editions in Africa, the United States
and France. Canada is coming soon and Conversation editors already work with academics from a number of other countries. These teams are rooted in communities, but able to come together to produce content that can be shared across the network, providing a range of perspectives and explanations relating to the events and discoveries that shape our world.
The Conversation has attracted more than 70 UK universities as members. Institutions from Ireland and Sweden have also joined. Our editors are not all huddled in London, but spread around, meeting academic authors to produce what we hope you feel is compelling content.
The Conversation UK team has generated more than 16,000 articles, by close to 10,000 authors. Thanks to our free-to-republish model these pieces have been read by hundreds of millions of people. That’s smart, informed, diverse knowledge delivered to the public when it is pertinent and useful.
We’ve looked at what happens to your brain when you give up sugar, covered the discovery of gravitational waves, explained numerous space missions and various global health
and environmental issues. We have, of course, grown and flourished at a time of great political upheaval. We are currently covering our second UK general election, and have also brought this new form of journalism to bear on two historic referendums.
We always seek to broaden the type of content we produce, allowing you to tap into the higher education sector’s knowledge in more ways. The Conversation UK bureau now produces two podcasts, weekly Fact Checks, live events, Facebook Live sessions, Q&As
and interviews.
Below you can find a selection of some of the work we’ve published this week, and click here to read coverage of the ongoing debacle facing the Trump administration in Washington.
When we launched, we did so amid rising concern about where people would find reliable, trustworthy journalism in an era of information fog. The necessity of such a platform has only become even more evident since. If you think our new form of independent, smart journalism is important as well as entertaining then please tell friends and colleagues about us. Forward this message and encourage them to sign up for the free daily email.
Thank you.
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Bill Buchanan, Edinburgh Napier University
The cyber-attack hit 200,000 computers and a number of big global organisations. But it hasn't made much in ransom money.
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Politics + Society
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John Owens, University of Westminster
A president has more than one route out of office – voluntarily or otherwise.
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Ian Shields, Anglia Ruskin University
National interest trumps open approach to US security policy.
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Tom Quinn, University of Essex
The left wing of the party is starting to see that the leader may need to be sacrificed in order for his legacy to survive.
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Heather Green, University of Aberdeen
Welcome to the new Wild West.
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Gerry Howley, University of Sheffield
Friendly regionals or smart standards – everyone has their own opinion.
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Adam Crymble, University of Hertfordshire
The 19th century Irish crimewave that wasn't: how a change of policing brought the English counterfeiters to book.
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Specials
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Andrew Scott Crines, University of Liverpool; Ben Williams, University of Salford
You need to know what each party is promising but who has the time to read through all their programmes for government? We did so you don't have to.
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Jeffery Uzoukwu, The Conversation
Let's see how conversant you are with this week's conversations!
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Arts + Culture
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Roger Shannon, Edge Hill University
Films funded and streamed by Netflix and Amazon are playing an important role in this year's festival.
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Jennifer Whitney, Cardiff University
Few would argue that exchanging cultural ideas could be construed negatively. But what happens when the influence and origins of that culture go unacknowledged and ignored?
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Health + Medicine
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Adam Taylor, Lancaster University
If the thought of undergoing surgery fills you with dread, spare a thought for your forebears.
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Business + Economy
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Enrico Bonadio, City, University of London
The UK is the latest country where tobacco companies cannot market their brands on their packets.
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Frank Tietze, University of Cambridge
Elon Musk struck a blow for open IP, so should other sustainable industries go the same way?
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Education
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Laura R. Pinkerton, University of Oxford
Gamification in schools teaches children that they should expect their every move to be watched, rated, and possibly shared publicly.
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Environment + Energy
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Colin Osborne, University of Sheffield
New study finds little evidence that farmers consciously tried to turn wild plants into more useful crops.
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Science + Technology
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Paula Koelemeijer, University of Oxford
Signals from violent earthquakes are helping reveal the landscape of the planet's insides.
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Barry Sheils, Durham University
Weather forecasting stopped looking for patterns in the past, and started using numbers to look solidly at the future.
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Christopher Markou, University of Cambridge
A man was recently sent to prison for six years at least in part by the recommendation of a private company’s secret proprietary software.
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