Category: MIL OSI
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How Britain can beat the heat without becoming addicted to air conditioning
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Mehri Khosravi, Energy and Carbon Senior Research Fellow, University of East London With heatwaves becoming hotter and more frequent, demand for air conditioning is expected to rise significantly. However, if the UK and similar countries respond to hotter summers simply by installing more AC, they risk…
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Five ways the UK can prepare for a hotter, riskier future
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Sara Mehryar, Research Fellow in climate change adaptation and resilience, London School of Economics and Political Science Water fountains offer welcome relief to Londoners. Nicolas Economou/Shutterstock Extreme heat in the UK is no longer a distant or seasonal issue. It’s a growing national risk. When the…
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Troy’s fall was partly due to environmental strain – and it holds lessons for today
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Stephan Blum, Research associate, Institute for Prehistory and Early History and Medieval Archaeology, University of Tübingen Sometimes the seeds of collapse are sown in the very soil of prosperity. Beneath the ancient city of Troy’s shining walls, the earth quietly cracked under the weight of its…
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World’s ‘oldest baby’: what a 30-year-old embryo tells us about the future of fertility
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Nicky Hudson, Professor of Medical Sociology, De Montfort University Svitlana Hulko/Shutterstock A baby born in the US has made headlines for a surprising reason: they came from an embryo that had been frozen for more than 30 years — setting a new world record. The embryo…
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Antarctic leopard seal ‘songs’ are surprisingly similar to nursery rhymes
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Rüdiger Riesch, Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology, Royal Holloway University of London Antarctic leopard seals make calls that share structures with nursery rhymes. Yaroslav Nikitin/Shutterstock Animals may not have musical instruments, but the way that some species form complex patterns of vocal sequences is remarkable. A…
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Condoms, PrEP and vaccines: how the UK is expanding STI prevention
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Kevin O’Malley, Clinical Tutor, School of Medicine, University of Limerick New Africa/Shutterstock The UK has just introduced the world’s first national programme offering a vaccine to help protect against gonorrhoea. This coincides with increasing rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including antibiotic-resistant strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae,…
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How a Japanese museum project is passing on the testimony of the last atomic bomb survivors
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Lauren Anne Constance, PhD Candidate, School of Modern Languages, Cardiff University Known as hibakusha in Japan, the survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the only people in the world with firsthand experience of the horrors of nuclear warfare. Now, 80 years…
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Wealth taxes don’t always work the way governments hope they will. Here are some alternatives
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Miriam Marra, Associate Professor of Finance and co-Director of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at Henley Business School, University of Reading RYO Alexandre/Shutterstock With the UK government facing a multibillion pound gap between revenue and spending, calls for a wealth tax are becoming louder. More than 30…
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Succès Masra: how Chad’s opposition firebrand came to be sentenced to 20 years in prison
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Bourdjolbo Tchoudiba, Doctorant en Sciences Politiques-Université Paris-Est Créteil, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire d’Études du Politique Hannah Arendt (LIPHA), Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne (UPEC) Chad’s opposition firebrand and a former prime minister, Succès Masra, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on 9 August. He was…
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Kenya’s 1950 Kolloa massacre: Britain won’t own up to its colonial violence but communities need closure
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Chloé Josse-Durand, Senior Research Associate in African Politics, Newcastle University In 1950, British forces killed at least 29 civilians in one of the deadliest, but least chronicled, episodes of colonial violence in Kenya. Armed soldiers killed at least 29 civilian members of Dini ya Msambwa,…
