Author: The Conversation

  Will we now see a proper pandemic recovery?

  Last year started out hopeful with the emergence of COVID-19 vaccines, but quickly proved to be a challenging year for governments and communities worldwide.

Omicron may not be the final variant, but it may be the final variant of concern

When the corporate culture can so often seem rotten from the head down, faiths are there to remind us that businesses can be so much more

  In places with low vaccination rates, Covid-19 has the chance to linger, and variants develop and travel. Without global vaccine equity, this entirely predictable pattern will repeat

  Educating children in the 21st century is about teaching them to appreciate the human condition in all its diversity. Holiday reading can contribute to this.

  Social influencers vie for public attention in a crowded market place. This makes the bold and the ruthless even more likely to opt for strategic dishonesty if

  Fanon was brutally honest in his criticism of militants and Africa’s post-independence elites

The new variant is a warning: unless we take urgent action to correct global vaccine inequities, we risk the emergence of further variants, some of which may evade

Many centenarians haven’t lived healthy lives, so are they genetically different?

“Who could have imagined that it would simply collapse?” It’s been 30 years since the Soviet Union dissolved in the wake of a bungled reform effort by Mikhail

How we should manage uncertainty is not a scientific issue but an ethical issue

  By Eric Smalley

Good science doesn’t eliminate uncertainty: it explains it

A virus evolution expert explains what researchers know and what they don’t