Category: MIL OSI
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How bad science is becoming big business
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Owen Brierley, Course Leader in the Department of Creative Industries, Kingston University Fraudulent science is not about just a few bad apples. Joanna Dorota/Shutterstock Researchers are dealing with a disturbing trend that threatens the foundation of scientific progress: scientific fraud has become an industry. And it’s…
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Japan’s shifting memory of the second world war is raising fears of renewed militarism
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Lewis Eves, Lecturer in Government and International Relations, University of Essex Eighty years have passed since Japan’s surrender ended the second world war. But the way Japan thinks about its wartime history is changing at pace. This is coinciding with a political shift that risks renewed…
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Palestine Action arrests: what happens next, and what it tells us about the breadth of Britain’s counter-terrorism laws
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By David Mead, Professor of UK Human Rights Law, University of East Anglia The proscription of Palestine Action – banning membership or support for the organisation on the ground that the home secretary believes it is “concerned in terrorism” – has led to hundreds of arrests, two…
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Friday essay: who was Anne Frank?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Jan Lanicek, Associate Professor in Modern European History and Jewish History, UNSW Sydney Anne Frank in December 1941. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Everyone knows her photo. For some it shows the cheeky smile of a young girl, “Miss Quack Quack”. For others, the image…
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Postwar Japan at 80: 10 factors that changed the nation forever
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Simon Avenell, Professor in Modern Japanese History, Australian National University Aleksander Pasaric/Pexels This year marks 80 years since Japan’s catastrophic defeat in the Asia-Pacific War. In 1945, the country lay in ruins. Millions had died in battle or in the devastating Allied bombings of Tokyo,…
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Israel must allow independent investigations of Palestinian journalist killings – and let international media into Gaza
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Peter Greste, Professor of Journalism and Communications, Macquarie University The New York-based media freedom organisation, the Committee to Protect Journalists, is scrupulous with its words. So, when the organisation described the killing of six Palestinian journalists in an Israeli air strike as “murder”, the word…
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Why child-care vouchers aren’t the answer for working families this fall
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Daniel Foster, Policy Researcher, Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development, University of Toronto As backpacks come off the shelves and parents fuss over what to put in lunch boxes, many families face a more stressful back-to-school dilemma: who’s going to watch the kids when school’s…
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Grok 4’s new AI companion offers up ‘pornographic productivity’
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Jul Parke, PhD Candidate in Media, Technology & Culture, University of Toronto The most controversial AI platform is arguably the one founded by Elon Musk. The chatbot Grok has spewed racist and antisemitic comments and called itself “MechaHitler,” referring to a character from a video game.…
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How the Trump-Putin summit could play out
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jonathan Este, Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor, The Conversation If you consider the history of Donald Trump’s public relationship with Vladimir Putin, you won’t be surprised that there’s a fair amount of concern in Ukraine and among Ukraine’s European allies at what might happen when…
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Grok 4’s new AI companions offer ‘pornographic productivity’ for a price
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Jul Parke, PhD Candidate in Media, Technology & Culture, University of Toronto The most controversial AI platform is arguably the one founded by Elon Musk. The chatbot Grok has spewed racist and antisemitic comments and called itself “MechaHitler,” referring to a character from a video game.…
