Category: MIL OSI
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Parents don’t need to try harder – to ease parenting stress, forget self-reliance and look for ways to share the care
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Elizabeth Sharda, Associate Professor of Social Work, Hope College Modern parents experience many demands, with little support. Abraham Gonzalez Fernandez/Moment via Getty Images I wrap up my workday and head for home, making a quick stop to grab the supplies my sixth grader needs for…
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Great Lakes offshore wind could power the region and beyond
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Cora Sutherland, Interim Assistant Director, Center for Water Policy, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee The United States’ offshore wind potential isn’t just in the ocean, where these turbines are located, off Rhode Island. John Moore/Getty Images Offshore wind power could provide far more electricity than the U.S.…
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Masked and armed agents are arresting people on US streets as aggressive enforcement ramps up
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Dafydd Townley, Teaching Fellow in US politics and international security, University of Portsmouth There are masked men, and some women, on the streets in American cities, sometimes travelling in unmarked cars, often carrying weapons and wearing military-style kit. They have the power to identify, arrest, detain…
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Royal Mail’s delivery pledges have changed. Here’s what the company could look like in future
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Paul Simmonds, Strategy & International Business Group, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick Andriy Blokhin/Shutterstock The last few months have been busy for Royal Mail. In late April, Czech businessman Daniel Kretinsky’s EP Group acquired its parent company, International Distribution Services, for £3.6 billion – a…
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Why modern masculinity is a climate issue
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Michael Joseph Richardson, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, Newcastle University What does masculinity have to do with the climate? A surprising amount. For example, significant figures in the manosphere combine misogyny with anti-environmentalism. Think Andrew Tate boasting of his fleet of cars and his private jet.…
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The hunt for ‘planet nine’: why there could still be something massive at the edge of the Solar System
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Ian Whittaker, Senior Lecturer in Physics, Nottingham Trent University The Sun’s gravitational pull extends more than 160 times further into space than Neptune. Vadim Petrakov Is there a massive undiscovered planet on the outer reaches of the Solar System? The idea has been around since before…
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Air-dropping food into Gaza is a ‘smokescreen’ – this is what must be done to prevent mass starvation
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Amra Lee, PhD candidate in Protection of Civilians, Australian National University Israel partially lifted its aid blockade of Gaza this week in response to intensifying international pressure over the man-made famine in the devastated coastal strip. The United Arab Emirates and Jordan airdropped 25 tonnes…
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A rare, direct warning from Japan signals a shift in the fight against child sex tourism in Asia
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Ming Gao, Research Fellow of East Asia Studies, Lund University Jonas Gratzer/LightRocket via Getty Images Japan’s embassy in Laos and its Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued a rare and unusually direct advisory, warning Japanese men against “buying sex from children” in Laos. The move…
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France is set to recognise the state of Palestine and the UK may follow – but what does it really mean?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Malak Benslama-Dabdoub, Lecturer in law, Royal Holloway University of London Emmanuel Macron’s pledge to formally recognise the state of Palestine will make France the first G7 country and member of the UN security council to do so. The question is whether others will follow suit. The…
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‘Are you joking, mate?’ AI doesn’t get sarcasm in non-American varieties of English
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Aditya Joshi, Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW Sydney Emily Morter/Unsplash In 2018, my Australian co-worker asked me, “Hey, how are you going?”. My response – “I am taking a bus” – was met with a smirk. I had recently moved to…