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How to avoid tick bites in your yard or while hiking in the woods, and what to do if one starts feasting on you

A tick disease researcher explains the risks and how she avoids bringing home ticks from both work and walking her dog in the woods. Lint rollers, tick checks and some types of chemicals play a role.
theconversation 41h ago

Has the World Cup been a soft power failure for the US?

A string of controversies look set to turn the tournament into a lesson in how soft power can fail.
theconversation 41h ago

Who owns an AI generated song? What we can learn from the phonograph and the evolution of copyright laws

History suggests copyright adapts to technology. AI may be no exception.
theconversation 40h ago

Racism at the World Cup is an ugly reality. How to understand where it comes from

Tired colonial tropes paint Africans as untamed, unrestrained, and lacking in intelligence.
theconversation 27h ago

My kids and I are so fed up with each other as the holidays come to an end. How can we reset?

It can help to take stock at the end of a school holiday period and think about what went well, what didn’t work so well, and what was an unmitigated disaster.
theconversation 16h ago

Mapping the Odyssey – what you should watch, read and listen to this week

A Greek epic hits the screen, books about women’s bucking expectation stories and the queen of pop’s return.
theconversation 21h ago

The Large Hadron Collider is being upgraded so that it can unlock the secrets of the Higgs boson

Major upgrade works may allow the LHC to uncover signs of new physics.
theconversation 39h ago

First House: a visceral story about the collapse of a ‘perfect’ life and the imagining of a new one

A marriage ends unexpectedly and a woman realises that all she worked for meant denying her self and surpressing her true identity.
theconversation 23h ago

The missing link in the blue carbon agenda: The workforce

Blue carbon involves more than just counting carbon. It requires governance, finance, policy, and practice. Ultimately, success hinges on people and their skills.
theconversation 19h ago

Critical thinking has become an AI-era buzzword. But what does it actually mean, and how do we teach it?

Critical thinking is touted as the educational counterpoint to AI and algorithms, but our definitions of it need an update.
theconversation 19h ago

Andy Burnham is the Labour leader – third time lucky for the UK’s prime minister-in-waiting

His rise this time seemed unstoppable – but Burnham’s route to the top wasn’t always so clear.
theconversation 18h ago

Embryo personhood, once on the margins of abortion debates, is moving closer to the center

In vitro fertilization has become a bigger part of reproductive rights debates as a once-fringe movement to recognize embryos as people grows louder.
theconversation 16h ago

Geometry, football and the World Cup final

Spain’s passing triangles did more than create space: they forced France into making constant choices.
theconversation 26h ago

The Odyssey is haunted by the mysterious ‘Sea Peoples’ – but who were they, really?

The Sea Peoples are widely blamed for the collapse of the interconnected world of the Bronze Age. But what’s the evidence say?
theconversation 18h ago

What are Trump Accounts for? They are more likely to help newborns start building nest eggs than help pay for their college education

The government is kicking in $1,000 for babies born in calendar years 2025 through 2028.
theconversation 21h ago

View from the Hill: Has Hanson flown too close to the sun for some One Nation supporters?

From walking the streets of London with Tommy Robinson to going to luxury fashion shows in Italy, Pauline Hanson may be testing her supporters’ patience.
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