Category: MIL OSI
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Fixing Michigan’s teacher shortage isn’t just about getting more recruits
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Gail Richmond, Professor of Education, Michigan State University Finding good candidates to fill that teacher’s chair is no easy task. Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Nearly 500 of Michigan’s 705 school districts reported teaching vacancies in the fall of 2023. That’s…
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PBS accounts for nearly half of first graders’ most frequently watched educational TV and video programs
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Rebecca Dore, Director of Research of the Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy, The Ohio State University Rep. Robert Garcia, a California Democrat, speaks during a House hearing in March 2025, months before Congress rescinded two years of public media funding. Nathan Posner/Anadolu…
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National parks are key conservation areas for wildlife and natural resources
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Sarah Diaz, Associate Professor of Recreation and Sport Management, Coastal Carolina University A researcher collects water samples in Everglades National Park in Florida to monitor ecosystem health. AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell The United States’ national parks have an inherent contradiction. The federal law that created the…
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If everyone in the world turned on the lights at the same time, what would happen?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Harold Wallace, Curator, Electricity Collections, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution This combined satellite image shows how Earth’s city lights would look if it were night around the entire planet at once. White areas of light show cities with larger populations. NASA/Goddard Space Flight…
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2 spacecraft flew exactly in line to imitate a solar eclipse, capture a stunning image and test new tech
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Christopher Palma, Teaching Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Penn State The solar corona, as viewed by Proba-3’s ASPIICS coronagraph. ESA/Proba-3/ASPIICS/WOW algorithm, CC BY-SA During a solar eclipse, astronomers who study heliophysics are able to study the Sun’s corona – its outer atmosphere – in ways they…
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Meet ‘lite intermediate black holes,’ the supermassive black hole’s smaller, much more mysterious cousin
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Bill Smith, Ph.D. Candidate in Physics & Astronomy, Vanderbilt University Merging black holes generate gravitational waves, which astronomers can track. SXS, CC BY-ND Black holes are massive, strange and incredibly powerful astronomical objects. Scientists know that supermassive black holes reside in the centers of most galaxies.…
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The case that saved the press – and why Trump wants it gone
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Stephanie A. (Sam) Martin, Frank and Bethine Church Endowed Chair of Public Affairs, Boise State University Donald Trump wants to restrict journalists’ ability to publish or broadcast critical stories. Mesh cube, iStock/Getty Images Plus President Donald Trump is again attacking the American press – this time…
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Can Syria rebuild its economy from the ashes of war?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Faek Menla Ali, Associate Professor in Finance, University of Sussex More than a decade of devastating conflict has left Syria’s economy in tatters, its infrastructure in ruins and its population deeply fragmented. The fledgling transitional government in Damascus, which came to power following a lightning rebel…
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Why people ignore debt letters – and what it says about inequality today
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Ryan Davey, Lecturer in Social Sciences, Cardiff University Thomas Andre Fure/Shutterstock You get a payment reminder through the letterbox, maybe for a credit card, an overdraft, a bill, or a parking fine. You ignore it and leave the envelope unopened, or put it to one side…
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Why we still don’t understand what happens to women’s bodies during labour
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Anastasia Topalidou, Research Fellow (Perinatal Biomechanics and Health Technologies), University of Lancashire Photo by Jonathan Borba, CC BY-SA Maternal and newborn deaths are rising globally, not just in low- and middle-income countries, but in wealthy nations too. Researchers have described the situation as a “global failure”…