Category: MIL OSI
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Spotted lanternflies love grapevines, and that’s bad for Pennsylvania’s wine industry
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Flor Acevedo, Assistant Professor of Entomology, Penn State Adult spotted lanternflies infest areas of Pennsylvania from July to December. Lauren A. Little/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images Spotted lanternfly season is back in Pennsylvania. The polka-dotted, gray-and-red-winged adult insects make their appearance each July and…
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Spacecraft equipped with a solar sail could deliver earlier warnings of space weather threats to Earth’s technologies
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti, Associate Research Scientist, University of Michigan The SWIFT constellation, shown not to scale in this illustration, will fly farther than its predecessors to improve space weather warning time. Steve Alvey The burgeoning space industry and the technologies society increasingly relies on – electric grids,…
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Why do so many American workers feel guilty about taking the vacation they’ve earned?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Karen Tan, Assistant Professor of Tourism and Hospitality Management, Middle Tennessee State University The U.S. is the only advanced economy that doesn’t legally mandate a minimum number of vacation days. Comstock Images/Stockbyte via Getty Images “My dedication was questioned.” “Managers or upper management have looked…
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Why Trump blames decisions on others – a psychologist explains
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Geoff Beattie, Professor of Psychology, Edge Hill University It was US president Harry S. Truman who, in the years just after the second world war, kept a little wooden sign on his desk which read: “The buck stops here!”. It emphasised his willingness to accept ultimate…
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My artwork, A Virtuous Woman, has become the centre of a protest – it shows how our polarised society can affect art
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Layla Khoo, PhD Candidate, Public Participatory Contemporary Art, University of Leeds My project A Virtuous Woman is both an artwork and a piece of ongoing research into the role of participatory artwork in heritage sites. As such, the artwork was always intended to be dynamic, responding…
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What would it take for a new British left-wing party to succeed?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Colm Murphy, Lecturer in British Politics, Queen Mary University of London Last week, the MP for Coventry South, Zarah Sultana, made an audacious decision. Having already lost the Labour party whip for opposing the two-child benefit cap, Sultana announced she would co-lead a new left-wing party…
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Johnny Depp’s new film about Modigliani is in danger of downplaying his importance as an artist – an art expert’s verdict
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Frances Fowle, Personal Chair of Nineteenth-Century Art, History of Art, University of Edinburgh In 2018 an oil painting of a nude by the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani broke a world record when it sold at Sotheby’s for US$157.2 million (£115.2m). It was created in 1917, at…
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What’s the forever chemical TFA doing in the UK’s rivers?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Daniel Drage, Associate Professor of Environmental Health, University of Birmingham The river Kelvin runs through Glasgow, Scotland. Jeff Whyte/Shutterstock Most UK rivers are contaminated by a chemical called trifluoroacetic acid (TFA). This is a type of human-made chemical known as perfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS), often called…
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From athlete’s foot to smelly soles: why daily washing is key to healthy feet
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Dipa Kamdar, Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, Kingston University Anastasia1507/Shutterstock Washing your feet might not top your list of daily priorities – but it should. While most of us shower regularly, our feet are often forgotten. Letting water run over them isn’t enough. To keep them…
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Israel’s Rafah camp – ‘humanitarian city’ or crime against humanity?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Shannon Bosch, Associate Professor (Law), Edith Cowan University Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz has announced a controversial plan to move up to 600,000 Palestinians in Gaza into a designated “humanitarian area” on the ruins of the southern city of Rafah. Access to the camp would…