Category: MIL OSI
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Warming temperatures affect glaciers’ ability to store meltwater, contributing to rising sea levels
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Danielle Halle, PhD Candidate, Glaciology, University of Waterloo In higher elevations, firn, frozen water that is something between snow and ice, covers the top of glaciers. Firn plays a critical role in regulating glacial meltwater and sea level rise. It does this by absorbing meltwater, the…
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Teachers are key to students’ AI literacy, and need support
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Sue Mylde, Doctoral Student, EdD., Learning Sciences, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary With the rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), teachers have been thrust into a new and ever-shifting classroom reality. The public, including many students, now has widespread access to GenAI tools…
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Sri Lanka moved to end elite impunity with arrest of former president
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Thiruni Kelegama, Lecturer in Modern South Asian Studies, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies., University of Oxford Sri Lanka’s former president and six-time prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, was arrested on August 22 for allegedly misusing state resources while in office. He is accused of using…
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Microplastics, pregnancy and the placenta: what we know and what we don’t
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Priya Bhide, Clinical Reader Women’s Health Research Unit, Centre for Public Health and Policy, Queen Mary University of London alphaspirit.it/Shutterstock During pregnancy, the placenta is the lifeline between mother and baby. It supplies the foetus with oxygen and nutrients, removes waste products and acts as a…
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AI has a hidden water cost − here’s how to calculate yours
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Leo S. Lo, Dean of Libraries; Advisor to the Provost for AI Literacy; Professor of Education, University of Virginia How many AI queries does it take to use up a regular plastic water bottle’s worth of water? kieferpix/iStock/Getty Images Plus Artificial intelligence systems are thirsty,…
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Yaba’s grip: how cheap methamphetamine is fuelling Thailand’s addiction crisis
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Joseph Janes, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Swansea University Yaba, a cheap and potent methamphetamine-caffeine pill often dubbed “crazy medicine”, has become one of Thailand’s most pressing public health crises. Easy to produce and widely available, yaba is used by everyone from factory workers seeking stamina to…
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Lifetime trends in happiness change as misery peaks among the young – new research
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Alex Bryson, Professor of Quantitative Social Science, UCL Tero Vesalainen/Shutterstock For years now, research studies across the world looking at happiness across our lifetimes have found a U-shape: happiness falls from a high point in youth, and then rises again after middle age. This has been…
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The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom – a deep and nuanced analysis of a complex monarch
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Clare Downham, Professor, University of Liverpool Æthelstan ( 894 to 939) in an illustration in a manuscript of Bede’s Life of Saint Cuthbert. Wikimedia The reign of Æthelstan (924 to 939) has excited a significant amount of study in recent years. In 2004 there was The Age…
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Research shows children’s wellbeing drops when they start secondary school – here’s why
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Paty Paliokosta, Associate Professor of Special and Inclusive Education, Kingston University Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock For many pupils, the move to secondary school is a moment of anticipation – new friends, new subjects, and a growing sense of independence. But research in England shows this transition often comes with…
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Democrats dig in with a new type of campaign against Trump
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Dafydd Townley, Teaching Fellow in US politics and international security, University of Portsmouth Over the past few months, the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, has increasingly become a focal point for the Democratic party’s resistance to the US president, Donald Trump. And a poll taken in…