Why We Need To Take A Look At The Way We Treat Prisoners And Do It Differently
The USA locks up more people per capita than any other nation in the world.
John Foo
Why is Hong Kong losing out to mainland China? Corruption is rife in the world’s most expensive city, but is that Beijing’s fault?
An elderly woman pushes a trolley with cardboard bundles for recycling.
Hong Kong is losing to Mainland China.
Russia and the West : The last two action-packed years
This presentation updates a talk I gave to ISAA just over two years ago, in August 2017, on the topic, ‘Western policy on Putin and a resurgent Russia’.
The previous three years 2014-17 had been momentous in Russia – West relations. The last two have been equally action-packed.
Ukraine
In 2014,
New National Security Advisor Shows Dangerous is the New Normal Or: Why one must be evil to be a “leading scholar of International Relations”
O Brien addressing the UN.
Robert O’Brien is a respected authority on international relations and now replaces John Bolton as U.S. President Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor. He is a neoconservative who feels that Barack Obama wasn’t nearly enough of a neocon. However, the differences between
Deeper meanings of the Hong Kong protests Is China a gamechanger or yet another winner?
Does our history only appear overheated, while it is essentially calmly predetermined? Is it directional or conceivable, dialectic and eclectic or cyclical, and therefore cynical? Surely, our history warns. Does it also provide for a hope? Hence, what is in front of us: destiny or future?
Theory loves to teach
The Anatomy of Conspiracy Theories
Whether you believe in conspiracy theories or not, we can all agree that the use of the term has exploded in media and in conversation..
Standing with Victims on International Justice Day
Abdul Kareem, a Rohingya Muslim, carries his mother, Alima Khatoon, to a refugee camp after crossing from Burma into Bangladesh on Sept.16, 2017.
Supercomputer shows 'Chameleon Theory' could change how we think about gravity
Physicists at Durham University, UK, simulated the cosmos using an alternative model for gravity -- f(R)-gravity, a so called Chameleon Theory..
Hubble uncovers black hole that shouldn't exist
The conundrum is that the disk shouldn't be there, based on current astronomical theories.
More 'reactive' land surfaces cooled the Earth down: Higher reactivity could explain temperature drop before last ice age
In a new study, Jeremy Caves-Rugenstein from ETH Zurich, Dan Ibarra from Stanford University and Friedhelm von Blanckenburg from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam were able to show that this paradigm cannot be upheld. According to the paper, weathering was constant over the period under consideration.
Wood products mitigate less than one percent of global carbon emissions
An analysis across 180 countries found that global wood products offset 335 million tons of carbon dioxide in 2015, 71 million tons of which were unaccounted for under current United Nations standards. Wood product carbon sequestration could rise more than 100 million tons by 2030, depending on the level of
The neuroscience of autism: New clues for how condition begins
The discovery, published in Neuron, illuminates the molecular details of a key process in brain development and adds to the scientific understanding of the biological basis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a condition linked to brain development and estimated to affect about one in 59 children born in the United
Insects feel persistent pain after injury, evidence suggests
The study in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances offers the first genetic evidence of what causes chronic pain in Drosophila (fruit flies) and there is good evidence that similar changes also drive chronic pain in humans. Ongoing research into these mechanisms could lead to the development of treatments that, for
Atmosphere of midsize planet revealed by Hubble, Spitzer
The planet, Gliese 3470 b (also known as GJ 3470 b), may be a cross between Earth and Neptune, with a large rocky core buried under a deep, crushing hydrogen-and-helium atmosphere.
Scientists discover the biggest seaweed bloom in the world
They confirmed that the belt of brown macroalgae called Sargassum forms its shape in response to ocean currents, based on numerical simulations.