Category: MIL OSI
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3 basic ingredients, a million possibilities: How small pizzerias succeed with uniqueness in an age of chain restaurants
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Paula de la Cruz-Fernández, Cultural Digital Collections Manager, University of Florida Variety is the sauce of life. Suzanne Kreiter/Boston Globe via Getty Images At its heart, pizza is deceptively simple. Made from just a few humble ingredients – baked dough, tangy sauce, melted cheese and…
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How slashing university research grants impacts Colorado’s economy and national innovation – a CU Boulder administrator explains
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Massimo Ruzzene, Vice Chancellor of Research and Innovation, University of Colorado Boulder Federal funding cuts to the University of Colorado Boulder have already impacted research and could cause even more harm. Glenn J. Asakawa/University of Colorado The Trump administration has been freezing or reducing federal…
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Higher ed’s relationship with marriage? It’s complicated – and depends on age
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By John V. Winters, Professor of Economics, Iowa State University Education rates are rising; marriage rates are falling. But the relationship between those two trends isn’t straightforward. Ugur Karakoc/E+ via Getty Images The longer someone stays in school, the more likely they are to delay getting…
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The online world comes with risks – but also friendships and independence for young people with disabilities
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Andy Phippen, Professor of IT Ethics and Digital Rights, Bournemouth University Kleber Cordeiro/Shutterstock “In the real world, I’m a coward. When I’m online, I’m a hero.” These words, paraphrased from a conversation with a young man with autism, have stayed with us throughout the years of…
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Reduce, remove, reflect — the three Rs that could limit global warming
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Dante McGrath, Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for Climate Repair, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge NASA Johnson/flickr, CC BY-NC Since 2019, the UK has been committed to the target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Legally binding net zero targets form the basis for national…
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Staying positive might protect against memory loss
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Christian van Nieuwerburgh, Professor of Coaching and Positive Psychology, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences PeopleImages.com – Yuri A/Shutterstock Want to remember things better as you get older? The secret might be surprisingly simple: focus on feeling good. Recent research involving over 10,000 people aged…
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Online therapy as effective as in-person therapy, finds large study
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Fabian Lenhard, Researcher, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet Chay Tee/Shutterstock.com When COVID arrived early in 2020, pandemic restrictions made in-person mental health care difficult or impossible. Both therapists and patients had to adapt almost overnight. For many in the field, it felt like a gamble:…
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There are many things Americans voters agree on, from fears about technology to threats to democracy
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Emma Connolly, Research Fellow, Digital Speech Lab, UCL During his recent public spat with Donald Trump, Elon Musk tweeted a poll asking if a new political party would better represent the 80% of voters in the middle. Hundreds of thousands of people responded and more than…
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Why the traditional college major may be holding students back in a rapidly changing job market
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By John Weigand, Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Interior Design, Miami University Rethinking the college major could help colleges better understand what employers and students need. Westend61/Getty Images Colleges and universities are struggling to stay afloat. The reasons are numerous: declining numbers of college-age students in…
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Climate change is making it harder for people to get the care they need
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Maria S. Floro, Professor Emerita of Economics, American University The world is witnessing the consequences of climate change: long-lasting changes in temperature and rainfall, and more intense and frequent extreme weather events such as heat waves, hurricanes, typhoons, flooding and drought. All make it harder for…