Category: MIL OSI
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‘Then the city started to burn, the fires were chasing me’ – 80 years on, Hiroshima survivors describe how the atomic blast echoed down generations
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Elizabeth Chappell, Affiliated Researcher, The Open University I’m not sure if it was the effect of the atomic bomb, but I have always had a weak body, and when I was born, the doctor said I wouldn’t last more than three days. These are the words…
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A big night for women’s football – what you should watch, see and read this week
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Naomi Joseph, Arts + Culture Editor The feelings that surged through the pub that I watched the women’s Euro 2022 cup final in were electric. England had won. My friends were in tears. Strangers were shaking hands, patting each other on the back, smiling goofily at…
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Water wars: a historic agreement between Mexico and US is ramping up border tension
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Natasha Lindstaedt, Professor in the Department of Government, University of Essex As climate change drives rising temperatures and changes in rainfall, Mexico and the US are in the middle of a conflict over water, putting an additional strain on their relationship. Partly due to constant droughts,…
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After 160 years of Welsh settlement in Patagonia, Indigenous voices are finally being heard
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Geraldine Lublin, Associate Professor in Spanish, Swansea University The first Welsh settlers landed on the shores of what is today the Province of Chubut, in Argentinean Patagonia, on 28 July 1865. Carried on the ship Mimosa, this was the first of a series of immigrant contingents…
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Distorted sound of the early universe suggests we are living in a giant void
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Indranil Banik, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Astrophysics, University of Portsmouth Baryon acoustic oscillations represent the sound of the Big Bang. Gabriela Secara, Perimeter Institute, CC BY-SA Looking up at the night sky, it may seem our cosmic neighbourhood is packed full of planets, stars and galaxies.…
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Fears that falling birth rates in US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Leslie Root, Assistant Professor of Research, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado Boulder Unfortunately for demographers, birth rates are hard to predict far into the future. gremlin/E+ via Getty Images Pronatalism – the belief that low birth rates are a problem that must be…
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The 3 worst things you can say after a pet dies, and what to say instead
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Brian N. Chin, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Trinity College Loss of a pet falls into what researchers call disenfranchised grief in which the pain is often minimized or discounted. Claudia Luna/iStock via Getty Images Plus I saw it firsthand after my cat Murphy died earlier…
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How bachata rose from Dominican Republic’s brothels and shantytowns to become a global sensation
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Wilfredo José Burgos Matos, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, Lehman College, CUNY Once viewed by elites with disdain, bachata has become popular worldwide. Erika Santelices/AFP via Getty Images What began as songs about heartbreak in the brothels and barrios of the…
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Trump’s push for more deportations could boost demand for foreign farmworkers with ‘guest worker’ visas
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Scott Morgenstern, Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh Mexican farmworkers with H-2A visas weed a North Carolina tobacco field in 2016. Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images The U.S. has an important choice to make regarding agriculture. It can import more people to pick crops…
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Deportation tactics from 4 US presidents have done little to reduce the undocumented immigrant population
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Kevin Johnson, Dean and Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Davis Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents escort a detained immigrant into an elevator on June 17, 2025, in New York. AP Photo/Olga Fedorova All modern U.S. presidents, both Republican and Democratic,…