Category: MIL OSI
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As the status quo shifts, we’re becoming more forgiving when algorithms mess up
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Hamza Tariq, PhD Student, Cognitive Psychology, University of Waterloo New inventions — like the printing press, magnetic compasses, steam engines, calculators and the internet — can create radical shifts in our everyday lives. Many of these new technologies were met with some degree of skepticism by…
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‘Better Than Chocolate’ highlights lost 90s decade of lesbian Canadian cinema
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Tamara de Szegheo Lang, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Film and Media, Queen’s University, Ontario “If coming out of the closet was really as much fun as it is for the sexually adventurous youths in Better Than Chocolate, then everybody would be doing it, even straight…
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Eddington ends with a dark joke about disability – but its punchline is centuries old
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Billie Anderson, Ph.D. Candidate, Media Studies, Western University Joaquin Phoenix, left, who plays small-town sheriff Joe Cross, and Pedro Pascal, who plays the town’s mayor, Ted Garcia, in a scene from Ari Aster’s film ‘Eddington.’ (A24) This story contains spoilers about ‘Eddington,’ ‘Midsommar’ and ‘Hereditary.’ Ari…
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The bacteria killing sea stars in the Pacific: How our team uncovered a decade-long mystery
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Melanie Prentice, Research Associate, University of British Columbia A sunflower sea star in Knight Inlet on the British Columbia coast. (Grant Callegari/Hakai Institute) In 2013, a mysterious epidemic swept across the Pacific Coast of North America, rapidly turning billions of sea stars from Mexico to Alaska…
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South Sudan’s new chief justice has a chance to reform the judiciary – if he’s allowed to do his job
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Mark Deng, McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne South Sudan’s chief justice, Chan Reec Madut, was sacked in late May 2025 after more than 13 years on the bench. Madut leaves behind a legacy of inefficiency and accusations of judicial graft. But the…
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Are African countries aware of their own mineral wealth? Ghana and Rwanda offer two very different answers
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Gerald Arhin, Research Fellow in the Political Economy of Climate Compatible Development , UCL Imagine running a business for over a century without knowing what’s in your warehouse. That’s essentially what many African countries are doing with their mineral wealth. Governments across the continent still have…
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Israel is deepening its war in Gaza – here are 5 big questions about Netanyahu’s ill-advised next phase
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Ian Parmeter, Research Scholar, Middle East Studies, Australian National University Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is moving forward with his plan to take full control of Gaza, expanding his war efforts amid a deepening starvation crisis in the strip and intensifying international condemnation. In the…
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As Netanyahu moves toward full takeover of Gaza, Israel faces a crisis of international credibility
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Amin Saikal, Emeritus Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Australian National University; Vice Chancellor’s Strategic Fellow, Victoria University; Adjunct Professor of Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia For all its claims of being a democracy that adheres to international law and the rules of war,…
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South Africa’s earliest newspapers made money from slavery: book offers new evidence
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Gawie Botma, Associate Professor of Journalism, Stellenbosch University In a recently published book, Reconsidering the History of South African Journalism: The Ghost of the Slave Press (2025 Routledge), author and journalism professor Gawie Botma explores the gap in the country’s understanding about the complicity of South…
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3 reasons Republicans’ redistricting power grab might backfire
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Charlie Hunt, Associate Professor of Political Science, Boise State University Texas state lawmakers board a bus following a press conference at the DuPage County Democratic Party headquarters in Carol Stream, Ill., on Aug. 3, 2025. Scott Olson/Getty Images The gerrymandering drama in Texas – and beyond…