Category: MIL OSI

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jason Hickel, Professor at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona oceanfishing/Shutterstock Data from the World Bank suggests that extreme poverty has declined dramatically over the past four decades, from 47% of the world’s population in 1981 to around 10% today. This…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Sander van der Linden, Professor of Social Psychology in Society, University of Cambridge Christopher Penler/Shutterstock.com Modern vaccines have saved over 150 million lives. Yet misinformation about them can still have deadly consequences. A gunman recently opened fire at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Iris Mikulic, Research Assistant, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet Orawan Pattarawimonchai/Shutterstock You have probably heard the phrase “follow your gut” – often used to mean trusting your instinct and intuition. But in the context of the gut-brain axis, the phrase takes on…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Aaron Thierry, PhD Candidate, Social Science, Cardiff University Despite decades of scientists’ warnings about climate and ecological breakdown, record-breaking heat and escalating environmental disasters have become commonplace. Science has been attacked, dismissed and politicised, and the world is accelerating in a terrifying direction. To scientists this…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Matthew Sussex, Associate Professor (Adj), Griffith Asia Institute; and Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University The bizarre summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Alaska should sway all but the most credulous doubters that the White House is more interested in…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Sara Oscar, Senior Lecturer, Visual Communication, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney The power of the war photograph is that it won’t let you look away. And nowhere is this proving truer than in Gaza. One recent example portrayed a skeletal boy, Muhammad Zakariya…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Ben Spies-Butcher, Associate professor, Macquarie University It’s the defining technology of an era. But just how artificial intelligence (AI) will end up shaping our future remains a controversial question. For techno-optimists, who see the technology improving our lives, it heralds a future of material abundance.…