Category: MIL OSI
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Hay fever: new immunotherapy approved in England for people with severe birch pollen allergies
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Heba Ghazal, Senior Lecturer, Pharmacy, Kingston University Birch pollen allergy symptoms can sometimes last from January to June. Dragana Gordic/ Shutterstock Around 25% of hay fever sufferers in the UK are allergic to birch tree pollen. This means that for a good chunk of the population,…
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Climate change is profoundly affecting livelihoods across Canada
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Sara Dorow, Professor of Sociology, University of Alberta For years, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has been sounding the alarm: climate change is having significant effects on the conditions, characteristics and availability of work. As wildfires and other extreme weather events are destroying forests and threatening…
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Let ‘performative males’ be – gender has always been a performance and our need for authenticity is bad for us
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Alexander Stoffel, Lecturer in International Politics, Queen Mary University of London Authenticity, everyone’s looking for it, yet it seems nowhere to be found. From the political arena to pop culture to relationships, our obsessive search for authenticity is a symptom of its absence. We have many…
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Our primate ancestors evolved in the cold – not the tropics
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jason Gilchrist, Lecturer in the School of Applied Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University Japan’s famous snow macaques are an exception among primates today. But our early ancestors often lived through weather like this. R7 Photo / shutterstock Most people imagine our early primate ancestors swinging through lush…
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The UK Space Agency has been absorbed into the science department. The potential effects are still unclear
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Bleddyn Bowen, Associate Professor in Astropolitics and Space Warfare, School of Government and International Affairs (SGIA), Durham University Tim Peake Fred Duval / Shutterstock The UK Space Agency (UKSA) has become part of the government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). The announcement was made…
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Did Trump really resolve six conflicts in a matter of months? We spoke to the experts to find out
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Rachael Jolley, International Affairs Editor, The Conversation The US president, Donald Trump, claims to have “solved six wars in six months”. To work out if there was any substance to his claims, The Conversation international affairs editors Sam Phelps and Rachael Jolley interviewed six academic experts…
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Edinburgh TV festival: James Harding’s MacTaggart lecture is a passionate defence of the BBC
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Paul Tucker, Senior Lecturer in Broadcast Production, University of the West of Scotland The agenda-setting centrepiece of every Edinburgh TV Festival is the MacTaggart lecture, celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2025. This year’s lecture was delivered by former BBC news director James Harding, and billed as…
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Football fans will see Nigel Farage’s branded kit for the cynical move it is
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Josh Bland, ESRC-DTP PhD Researcher, University of Cambridge As a new season begins, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is making a play for the affections of the nation’s football fans by launching its very own football shirt. It’s a move that has already proven popular among Reform…
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Sorry, Baby: a sad, funny, profound film about life after trauma
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Laura O’Flanagan, PhD Candidate, School of English, Dublin City University A critical success and award winner at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Sorry, Baby is the directorial debut of its writer and star, Eva Victor. The film follows Agnes (Victor), an English professor at a small…
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The economic pros and cons of building more and more data centres in the UK
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Michael A. Lewis, Professor of Operations and Supply Management, University of Bath yongheng200802/Shutterstock About 100 new data centres, the large anonymous-looking buildings containing the complex computer systems which power the online world, are to be built in the UK. Vital for all of your digital needs…