Category: MIL OSI
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Plastics: all around us and inside us
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Rosa Busquets, Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences, Pharmacy and Chemistry, Kingston University MOHAMED ABDULRAHEEM/Shutterstock Plastic is one of the most remarkable materials ever created. It’s cheap, lightweight and endlessly versatile. It can be shaped into anything from shopping bags to lifesaving tools in hospitals, and…
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DON’T PUB YET: How deliberative democracy can help solve the UK’s infrastructure problems
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Daniel Durrant, Lecturer in Infrastructure Planning, Bartlett School of Planning, UCL Hinkley Point power station under construction in Somerset, UK. Chris Homer/Shutterstock Infrastructure planning needs more democracy, not less. The UK has wasted billions of pounds of public and private money through failed infrastructure projects recently.…
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Want to understand the history of European culture? Start with the Minoans, not the Ancient Greeks
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Ellen Adams, Professor in Classical Archaeology and Museum Access, King’s College London Ruins of the ancient Minoan settlement in Gournia, Crete. Georgios Tsichlis/Shutterstock The Minoan culture was the first highly complex society on modern European soil, with palaces, writing, stunning art – and even flushing toilets.…
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Battling deepfakes: How AI threatens democracy and what we can do about it
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Abbas Yazdinejad, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Artificial Intelligence, University of Toronto Imagine receiving a robocall, but instead of a real person, it’s the voice of a political leader telling you not to vote. You share it with your friends, your family — only to find out it…
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Five of the most common injuries that can happen while climbing and bouldering
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Dan Baumgardt, Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol Fingers, toes and everything in between may be at risk of injury. Maridav/ Shutterstock Climbing and bouldering have become increasingly popular pastimes. In 2021, competitive climbing even become one of the official games at…
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Making Waves; Breaking Ground: a luminous show that reveals the interconnectedness of nature
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Alistair Rider, Senior Lecturer in Art History, University of St Andrews Numerous images exploring the blurry, textured thickness of light feature prominently in Making Waves; Breaking Ground, a group exhibition at the Bowhouse in St Monans, Fife. It is an apt theme for this coastal corner…
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Vikings were captivated by silver – our new analysis of their precious loot reveals how far they travelled to get it
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jane Kershaw, Gad Rausing Associate Professor of Viking Age Archaeology, University of Oxford In the archaeology galleries of the Yorkshire Museum, an incredible Viking silver neck-ring takes centre stage. The ring is made of four ropes of twisted rods hammer-welded together at each end, its terminals…
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Ukraine war: what an ‘article 5-style’ security guarantee might look like
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Mark Webber, Professor of International Politics, University of Birmingham Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, had good cause to be optimistic following his recent White House meetings with Donald Trump and the leaders of the European “coalition of the willing”. While a concrete peace plan has yet to…
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Glass half empty? Nutrition studies shouldn’t just focus on what parents do wrong
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Jennifer Black, Associate Professor of Food, Nutrition and Health, University of British Columbia If it takes a village to raise a child, it also takes a village to care for children’s food needs. Children’s health and nutrition outcomes are nurtured directly by family caregivers, but also…
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Swimming in the Seine: an old pastime resurfaces in the age of global warming
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – France – By Julia Moutiez, Doctorante en Architecture et Enseignante à l’École d’architecture de Paris Val-de-Seine, Université Paris Nanterre – Université Paris Lumières Bathing on a hot day in Paris, 1932. Agence Rol / Gallica / BNF As the 2024 Olympic Games drew near, the promise of being able…