Category: MIL OSI
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Our kids’ recess at school is essential to well-being and learning — and shouldn’t be scaled back
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Lauren McNamara, Research Scientist (Diversity and Equity in Schools), Diversity Insitute, Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University The Toronto Star recently reported on a Ministry of Education memo it obtained that asks boards for input into a new regulation that “would provide school boards…
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What to do when wasps crash your picnic – a scientist’s guide to dining safely with these insects
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Seirian Sumner, Professor of Behavioural Ecology, UCL Wasps get a hankering for jam once the colony larvae pupate. victoras/Shutterstock It’s summer in the northern hemisphere and that means sun, sea – and wasps. A lot of us have been taught to fear wasps as aggressive insects…
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How the internet and its bots are sabotaging scientific research
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Mark Forshaw, Professor of Health Psychology, Edge Hill University There was a time, just a couple of decades ago, when researchers in psychology and health always had to engage with people face-to-face or using the telephone. The worst case scenario was sending questionnaire packs out to…
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No clear answers on antidepressants in pregnancy
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Urban Wiesing, Professor of Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Tübingen The US Food and Drug Administration recently convened a panel of experts to examine a sensitive and increasingly urgent question: should antidepressants be prescribed to women suffering from depression during pregnancy? To the surprise…
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How ancient viruses could help fight antibiotic resistance
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Franklin Nobrega, Associate Professor, Microbiology, University of Southampton Phages (red) attacking a bacterium (green). nobeastsofierce/Shutterstock.com If bacteria had a list of things to fear, phages would be at the top. These viruses are built to find, infect and kill them – and they have been doing…
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Planning to take a degree taught in English when it’s not your first language? Here are some tips for success
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Una Cunningham, Professor emerita, Department of Teaching and Learning, Stockholm University fizkes/Shutterstock Every year, millions of students from all parts of the globe study for a degree through a language other than their first, usually English. In 2023, 25% of all higher education students in the…
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Armed banditry is becoming a crisis in Nigeria: why fixing the police is key
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Onyedikachi Madueke, PhD Candidate in Nigerian Security, University of Aberdeen Armed banditry in Nigeria has escalated into a full-blown security crisis, particularly in the north-west and north-central regions. What began as sporadic attacks has now morphed into coordinated campaigns of terror affecting entire communities. In…
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Smart cities start with people, not technology: lessons from Westbury, Johannesburg
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Rennie Naidoo, Professor of Information Systems, University of the Witwatersrand Protesters blocking roads in Johannesburg, demanding a reliable water supply. Photo: Silver Sibiya GroundUp, CC BY-NC-ND African cities are growing at an incredible pace. With this growth comes a mix of opportunity and challenge. How…
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Older adults who follow healthy diets accumulate chronic diseases more slowly – new study
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Adrián Carballo Casla, Postdoctoral Researcher in Geriatric Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet Studio Romantic/Shutterstock Imagine two people in their 70s. Both are active, live independently and enjoy life. But over the next 15 years, one of them develops two or three chronic illnesses – heart disease, diabetes, depression…
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My new history of romanticism shows how enslavement shaped European culture
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Mathelinda Nabugodi, Lecturer in Comparative Literature, UCL Portrait of Madeleine by Marie-Guillemine Benoist (1800). Louvre According to one strand of history, slavery was abolished when Europeans found their conscience. According to another, it was abolished when it stopped being profitable. Both approaches tend to underplay the…