Category: MIL OSI
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The American TikTok deal doesn’t address the platform’s potential for manipulation, only who profits
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Andrew Buzzell, Postdoctoral Fellow, Rotman Institute of Philosophy, Western University On Sept. 25, the Donald Trump administration in the United States again extended the TikTok ban-or-divest law, possibly for the last time. The latest extension to the law, which was passed in 2024 by the Joe…
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Often overlooked, Tudor art richly reflected a turbulent century of growth and change
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Christina Faraday, Research Fellow in History of Art, University of Cambridge It can sometimes seem like the Tudors are everywhere, at least in Britain: on television, in bookshops and in historic houses and galleries across the country. Yet within the discipline of art history, appreciation for…
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The spiritual and emotional world of pub psychic nights
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Josh Bullock, Senior Lecturer Criminology and Social Sciences, Kingston University Breanna P/Shutterstock At a Bristol social club, a psychic medium scans the room, inviting the spirit world into a space more often used for drinking and darts. The medium is talking to a small audience, mostly…
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The other space race: why the world is obsessed with sending objects into orbit
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Tony Milligan, Teaching Associate, University of Sheffield Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster, with Earth in background. wikipedia, CC BY-SA Beyond the race for scientific, commercial and military purposes, there is another space race of a more curious sort. A race to be the first to send various…
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How Paraguay became a bastion of conservatism in Latin America
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Andrew Nickson, Honorary Reader in the Department of International Development, University of Birmingham Paraguay hosted the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), a gathering of the global right, for the first time in mid-September. In attendance were members of US president Donald Trump’s inner circle, including his…
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Five herbs and spices that could help improve your digestion
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Dipa Kamdar, Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, Kingston University Beatriz Vera/Shutterstock Digestive discomfort – whether it’s bloating after a heavy meal or the occasional bout of indigestion – can make anyone miserable. While modern medicine offers effective treatments, there’s renewed interest in natural ways to support…
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Is China a climate goodie or baddie – or both?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Will de Freitas, Environment + Energy Editor, The Conversation This roundup of The Conversation’s climate coverage was first published in our award-winning weekly climate action newsletter, Imagine. You could tell me that China still gets most of its electricity from coal and is building more new…
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Nature’s not perfect: fig wasps try to balance sex ratios for survival but they can get it wrong
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Jaco Greeff, Professor in Genetics, University of Pretoria Television nature programmes and scientific papers tend to celebrate the perfection of evolved traits. But the father of evolution through natural selection, Charles Darwin, warned that evolution would produce quirks and “blunders” that reflect a lineage’s history.…
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Sex-motivated violence should be treated as a hate crime
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Debra M Haak, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University, Ontario Canada recently introduced the Combatting Hate Act, legislation that will create three new criminal offences intended to strengthen protections against hate. The first new offence targets hate crimes directly for the first time in Canada.…
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Edson Sithole: new book uncovers the work of a thinker, lawyer and Zimbabwean freedom fighter who ‘disappeared’
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Brooks Marmon, Post-doctoral Scholar, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, The Ohio State University Edson Sithole was born in what was then Southern Rhodesia in 1935. He was the first black person in southern Africa to obtain a Doctor of Laws degree. He was the…