Category: MIL OSI
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Why do corporations act against the public interest? We may have the answers (it’s not just greed)
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Stephen R. Buzdugan, Senior Lecturer in International Business, Manchester Metropolitan University Jeppe Gustafsson/Shutterstock For the past two years, Tesla has been embroiled in a bitter dispute with the Swedish labour union IF Metall. It is of a scale that the union hasn’t witnessed since the 1930s.…
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Viral ‘kettlebell challenge’ could do you more harm than good – here’s why
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jen Wilson, Senior Exercise and Health Practitioner, Nottingham Trent University The challenge may sound like a quick and easy way to get fit, but it may actually be the least effective way of adding kettlebells to your workouts. Tongpool Piasupun/ Shutterstock The “100 kettlebell swings a…
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More than 50% of Detroit students regularly miss class – and schools alone can’t solve the problem
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Jeremy Singer, Assistant Professor of Education, Wayne State University Nobody learns in an empty classroom. Jeffrey Basinger/Newsday RM via Getty Images Thousands of K-12 students in Detroit consistently miss days of school. Chronic absenteeism is defined as missing at least 10% of school days – or…
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Tsunami warnings are triggering mass evacuations across the Pacific – even though the waves look small. Here’s why
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Milad Haghani, Associate Professor and Principal Fellow in Urban Risk and Resilience, The University of Melbourne Last night, one of the ten largest earthquakes ever recorded struck Kamchatka, the sparsely populated Russian peninsula facing the Pacific. The magnitude 8.8 quake had its epicentre in the…
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Kamchatka earthquake is among top 10 strongest ever recorded. Here’s what they have in common
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Dee Ninis, Earthquake Scientist, Monash University Today at about 11:30am local time, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula in the country’s far east. Originating at a depth of roughly 20 kilometres, today’s powerful earthquake – among the ten strongest…
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Emil Bove confirmed – his appeals court nomination echoed earlier controversies, but with a key difference
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Paul M. Collins Jr., Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science, UMass Amherst Emil Bove, Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as a federal appeals judge for the 3rd Circuit, is sworn in during a confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C., on June 25, 2025. Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call,…
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The giant cuttlefish’s technicolour mating display is globally unique. The SA algal bloom could kill them all
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Zoe Doubleday, Marine Ecologist and ARC Future Fellow, University of South Australia Great Southern Reef Foundation, CC BY-SA Every year off the South Australian coast, giant Australian cuttlefish come together in huge numbers to breed. They put on a technicolour display of blue, purple, green,…
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Women’s rights in the US are in real danger of going back to 1965 – so Jessie Murph’s new song is no laughing matter
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Prudence Flowers, Senior Lecturer in US History, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Stagecoach 1965, a trending new song by TikTok sensation and country music rebel Jessie Murph, is prompting heated online conversation about the status of women…
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How conspiracy theories about COVID’s origins are hampering our ability to prevent the next pandemic
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Edward C. Holmes, NHMRC Leadership Fellow and Professor of Virology, University of Sydney peterschreiber.media/Getty Images In late June, the Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO), a group of independent experts convened by the World Health Organization (WHO), published an assessment of…
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Summer has brought both hope and questions for Ukraine amid Donald Trump’s posturing
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By James Horncastle, Assistant Professor and Edward and Emily McWhinney Professor in International Relations, Simon Fraser University United States President Donald Trump has recently issued various threats towards Russia amid his apparent mounting frustration with Russian leader Vladmir Putin. These threats also occur at a time when…