Category: MIL OSI
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In a lonely world, widespread AI chatbots and ‘companions’ pose unique psychological risks
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Daniel You, Clinical Lecturer USYD, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist FRANZCP, University of Sydney Cheng Xin/Getty Images News Within two days of launching its AI companions last month, Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot app Grok became the most popular app in Japan. Companion chatbots are more powerful…
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Polls suggest this man could become Turkey’s next president. Erdoğan is doing everything to stop him
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By William Gourlay, Teaching Associate in Politics & International Relations at the School of Social Sciences, Monash University A Turkish proverb – düştüğün yerden kalk – counsels that one should arise from where one has fallen. Ekrem İmamoğlu, the jailed mayor of Istanbul and main rival…
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Clones and superfans: 28 years on, our feelings about Diana reflect who we are
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Giselle Bastin, Associate Professor of English, Flinders University “I’ve had Japanese people crying when I tell them I’m not Diana,” British woman Christina Hance, who sometimes earned thousands of pounds a day as a Diana impersonator, told the BBC in 1996. A few months later,…
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See Earth’s seasons in all their complexity in a new animated map
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Drew Terasaki Hart, Ecologist, CSIRO The average seasonal growth cycles of Earth’s land-based ecosystems, estimated from 20 years of satellite imagery. Terasaki Hart et al. / Nature The annual clock of the seasons – winter, spring, summer, autumn – is often taken as a given.…
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In a post-truth world, what happens if we can’t trust US economic data any more?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Marta Khomyn, Lecturer, Finance and Data Analytics, University of Adelaide Chip Somodevilla /Getty We may already live in the post-truth world, but are we about to enter the era of post-truth statistics? Each month, the US employment report is one of the most closely watched…
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The European Union excluded Greenland from public consultations on the EU seal product ban. Why?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Danita Catherine Burke, Senior Research Fellow, Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark In 2024, the European Union held public consultations to review the fitness of the EU’s seal product ban regulations. The results of these public consultations are available now and reveal zero public…
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From sulphur to selenium, calcium to copper, here’s what your body’s made of – and why it matters
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Dan Baumgardt, Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol Cagkan Sayin/Shutterstock In my youth, I spent an unreasonable amount of time questioning why A-level chemistry was a prerequisite for medical school. Why was it as essential as biology? Why did I need to…
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Young people in coastal towns are getting left behind – here’s what could help
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Sam Whewall, Research Fellow, Centre for Global Youth, UCL Institute of Education, UCL JJ pixs/Shutterstock When you think of the English seaside, what probably springs to mind are childhood summer holidays, donkey rides on the beach and scenic clifftop walks. The reality for young people growing…
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Was the ‘double tap’ attack on Gaza’s Nasser hospital a war crime? Here’s what the laws of war say
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By James Sweeney, Professor, Lancaster Law School, Lancaster University There has been widespread international outrage at Israel’s attack on Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, northern Gaza, on August 25. The attack took the form of a “double tap” strike. The first attack killed at least one person,…
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Himalayan flash floods: climate change worsens them, but poor planning makes them deadly
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Manudeo Singh, Newton International Fellow at the Department of Geography and Earth Science, Aberystwyth University On August 5, a cloudburst near the Kheer Ganga river triggered a flash flood that tore through Dharali, a village in the Indian Himalayas. Within minutes, the river swelled with water,…
