Category: MIL OSI
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Techno-utopians like Musk are treading old ground: The futurism of early 20th-century Europe
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Sonja Fritzsche, Senior Associate Dean and Professor of German Studies, Michigan State University Twentieth-century futurists celebrated flight, communications and manufacturing. Today, they’re inspired by space, AI and biotechnology. Davide Mauro/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA In “The Singularity is Nearer: When We Merge with AI,” the futurist Ray Kurzweil…
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What causes muscle cramps during exercise? Athletes and coaches may want to look at the playing surface
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Michael Hales, Associate Professor of Health Promotion and Physical Education, Kennesaw State University Muscle cramps have felled many an athlete on game day. Paul Ellis/AFP via Getty Images For athletes across all sports, few experiences are as agonizing as being forced to leave competition with a…
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Why listening to stories and talking about them is so important for young children
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Fufy Demissie, Senior Lecturer in Early Years Education, Sheffield Hallam University PeopleImages/Shutterstock Story time – at home, at nursery and at school – is where young children encounter the magic of books. Reading stories to young children is a pleasurable activity in itself, but it also…
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The hidden plastic problem in your daily dental routine – and what’s being done about it
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Saroash Shahid, Reader in Dental Materials, Queen Mary University of London Vladimir Sukhachev/Shutterstock.com You brush twice daily, floss religiously and see your dentist every six months. But what if these acts of oral hygiene are quietly contributing to one of the planet’s most pressing environmental crises?…
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How the global anti-scam community could come together to beat the criminals
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Mark Button, Professor of Security and Fraud, University of Portsmouth iSOMBOON/Shutterstock Consumers are increasingly being targeted by financial fraudsters who deceive them into sending money, access their bank accounts or take out loans using their identity. Over the summer, new and more sophisticated scams have been…
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Gin Lane by William Hogarth is a critique of 18th-century London’s growing funeral trade
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Dan O’Brien, Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath Gin Lane by William Hogarth (1751). Royal Academy of Arts In 1751, the English painter William Hogarth created a nightmarish depiction of the London slum of St Giles. The familiar spire of the…
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A rocky planet in its star’s ‘habitable zone’ could be the first known to have an atmosphere – here’s what we found
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Hannah Wakeford, Associate professor, University of Bristol New research using Nasa’s powerful JWST telescope has identified a planet 41 light years away which may have an atmosphere. The planet is within the “habitable zone”, the region around a star where temperatures make it possible for liquid…
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The legend of Troy explained
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Marguerite Johnson, Honorary Professor of Classics and Ancient History, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland Helen and Paris depicted on an Ancient Greek vase, 380–370 BC. Wikimedia Commons The Trojan War is a legend that sprang from a distant memory of…
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New type of ‘sieve’ detects the smallest pieces of plastic in the environment more easily than ever before
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Shaban Sulejman, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne Nanoplastic particles are captured by cavities in the optical sieve. Lukas Wesemann and Mario Hentschel Plastic pollution is everywhere: in rivers and oceans, in the air and the mountains, even in our blood and…
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Xi Jinping is in a race against time to secure his legacy in China
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Ian Langford, Executive Director, Security & Defence PLuS and Professor, UNSW Sydney The Chinese military parade that had the world talking last week was more than just pageantry. It was a declaration that Chinese leader Xi Jinping sees himself in a race against time to…