Category: MIL OSI
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Sleep apnoea and the unlikely role of conch shells
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jo-Anne Johnson, Head of Undergraduate Medicine, Anglia Ruskin University AJP/Shutterstock.com Could blowing a conch shell help treat sleep apnoea? As a doctor working in sleep medicine, this unexpected news story certainly grabbed my attention. My first reaction was scepticism – sleep specialists don’t typically prescribe natural…
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Why people embrace conspiracy theories: it’s about community, not gullibility
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Robin Canniford, Professor of Markets, Business, and Society, University of Bath TSViPhoto/Shutterstock Psychologists have long considered how a tendency towards irrational thinking or particular personality traits might predict peoples’ interest in conspiracies. Yet these individual factors do not explain the group processes through which conspiracy theorists…
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Why empty supermarket shelves make you uneasy – even if you don’t want the missing items
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Dominik Piehlmaier, Associate Professor in Marketing, Department of Strategy and Marketing, University of Sussex Kauka Jarvi/Shutterstock Have you ever spotted an empty supermarket shelf and felt a sudden pang of discomfort, even though you weren’t looking for that item? You’re not alone. Shocks such as COVID…
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How the racist study of skulls gripped Victorian Britain’s scientists
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Elise Smith, Associate Professor in the History of Medicine, University of Warwick Illustration of a skull, viewed from the left side, showing the principal craniometric points. From Gerrish’s Text-book of Anatomy (1902) Frederick Henry Gerrish (1845-1920), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The recent publication of the…
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No end to the violence as Israel launches its assault on Gaza City
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Julie M. Norman, Senior Associate Fellow on the Middle East at RUSI; Associate Professor in Politics & International Relations, UCL In Gaza City, Palestinians are fleeing a renewed Israeli [assault] to take control over the area, following days of air strikes that have killed dozens. Just…
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Parenting strategies are shifting as neuroscience brings the developing brain into clearer focus
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Nancy L. Weaver, Professor of Behavioral Science, Saint Louis University Grocery stores are a common source of tantrums and meltdowns. Cavan Images/Cavan via Getty Images A friend offhandedly told me recently, “It’s so easy to get my daughter to behave after her birthday – there…
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New research suggests that studying philosophy makes people better thinkers
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Michael Vazquez, Teaching Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Students take a philosophy test in Strasbourg, France, on June 18, 2024. Frederick Florin/AFP via Getty Images Philosophy majors rank higher than all other majors on verbal and logical reasoning, according…
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‘These people do it naturally’: President Trump’s views on immigrant farmworkers reflect a long history of how farming has been idealized and practiced in America
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Doug Sackman, Professor of History, University of Puget Sound Farmworkers harvest celery on March 9, 2024, in Yuma, Ariz. John Moore/Getty Images The Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign has not spared the U.S. agricultural industry, with agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement frequently raiding farms across…
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State Department layoffs could hurt US companies’ ability to compete globally – an economist explains why
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Carey Durkin Treado, Associate Teaching Professor of Economics, University of Pittsburgh When more than 1,300 people at the U.S. State Department lost their jobs in a mass firing this summer, most headlines focused on what it meant for American diplomacy. But the layoffs are about…
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Hulk Hogan’s daughter can’t write herself out of the wrestler’s will – but she can refuse to take his money
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Reid Kress Weisbord, Distinguished Professor of Law and Judge Norma Shapiro Scholar, Rutgers University – Newark The outspoken wrestler attends a news conference in 2014. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images When professional wrestler and former reality TV star Hulk Hogan died on July 24, 2025, he left…