Category: MIL OSI
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Supply-chain delays, rising equipment prices threaten electricity grid
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Morgan Bazilian, Professor of Public Policy and Director, Payne Institute, Colorado School of Mines High-voltage power lines run through an electrical substation in Florida. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Two new data centers in Silicon Valley have been built but can’t begin processing information: The equipment that…
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SNAP benefits have been cut and disrupted – causing more kids to go without enough healthy food and harming child development
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Jenalee Doom, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Denver Being able to buy nutritious groceries is essential for your family’s health. Spencer Platt/Getty Images About 4 in 10 of the more than 42 million Americans who get Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits are children under…
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Think twice before copying Denmark’s asylum policies
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Michelle Pace, Professor in Global Studies, Roskilde University When the British government recently announced its plan to emulate Denmark’s asylum and immigration system, it framed the move as a way to restore fairness and regain control. But for those who know how Denmark’s system actually works,…
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Recent studies prove the ancient practice of nasal irrigation is effective at fighting the common cold
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Mary J. Scourboutakos, Adjunct Assistant Professor in Family and Community Medicine, Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences at Old Dominion University Nasal irrigation can help shorten the duration of the common cold. SimpleImages/Moment via Getty Images It starts with a slight scratchiness at the…
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Hybrid workers are putting in 90 fewer minutes of work on Fridays – and an overall shift toward custom schedules could be undercutting collaboration
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Christos Makridis, Associate Research Professor of Information Systems, Arizona State University; Institute for Humane Studies It gets lonely if you stick around an office until late afternoon on Fridays. Dimitri Otis/Stone via Getty Images Do your office, inbox and calendar feel like a ghost town…
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How patients are helping cancer researchers to ask better questions – and find better answers
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By James Brown, Associate Professor in Cancer and Cell Biology, University of Limerick PeopleImages.com – Yuri A/Shutterstock Cancer research is evolving, not just in the lab, but in who is leading it. Increasingly, patients, carers and members of the public are stepping into the research process itself,…
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The Choral: this moving first world war film reveals the power of music to transcend despair
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Laura O’Flanagan, PhD Candidate, School of English, Dublin City University Set in the Oxfordshire village of Ramsden in 1916, The Choral inhabits a world where the war is distant – yet its shadow lies over every street. Many of the young men are gone to the…
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Can the world quit coal?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Stacy D. VanDeveer, Professor of Global Governance & Human Security, UMass Boston A fisherman looks at the Suralaya coal-fired power plant in Cilegon, Indonesia, in 2023. Ronald Siagian/AFP via Getty Images As world leaders and thousands of researchers, activists and lobbyists meet in Brazil at…
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Trespassers and troubadours: what to watch and listen to this week
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Anna Walker, Senior Arts + Culture Editor, The Conversation The winner of this year’s Booker prize, Hungarian-British writer David Szalay, has often been accused of overwriting. His earlier short story collections and novels sometimes lost readers in their ornate, over-detailed descriptions. It seems he’s taken that…
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BBC bias? The Prescott memo falls well short of the standards of impartiality it demands
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Stephen Cushion, Professor, Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University The Prescott memo was leaked to the Daily Telegraph. Steve Travelguide/Shutterstock The BBC has long weathered accusations of bias. So why did the latest scandal lead to the resignations of the BBC’s director general…