MIL-OSI Global: How Africa’s porous borders make it difficult to contain Ebola
Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Mosoka Fallah, Deputy Director General at National Public Health Institute of Liberia and Visiting Scientist, Harvard Medical School More than 2000 cases of Ebola have been recorded in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since last August. Now, despite authorities’ efforts – such as screening millions of […]
Read More →MIL-Evening Report: Keith Jackson: Act now over grave threat facing Australian press freedom
OPEN LETTER: By Keith Jackson I joined the Australian Journalists Association (now the MEAA – Media Alliance) in, I think, 1971, when I still lived and worked in Papua New Guinea. When I formally retired from paid work a few years back, I was given honorary membership but, to bolster the journalism profession and its […]
Read More →MIL-Evening Report: Science Writing and Climate Change – a new environmental journalism book
David Robie ISBN/code: 9781927184578 Price: $20.00 Publication date: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 Publisher: Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication (AIJC) in association with SciDev.Net and the Pacific Media Centre: Manila and Auckland. “Disaster reporting, which focuses on deaths and casualties for the benefit of local readers, is understandable. However, the mass media also need to […]
Read More →MIL-OSI New Zealand: Science Writing and Climate Change – a new environmental journalism book
Source: Pacific Media Centre Analysis published with permission of PMC David Robie ISBN/code: 9781927184578 Price: $20.00 Publication date: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 Publisher: Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication (AIJC) in association with SciDev.Net and the Pacific Media Centre: Manila and Auckland. “Disaster reporting, which focuses on deaths and casualties for the benefit of local […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Reportage: Science Writing and Climate Change – a new environmental journalism book
Source: Pacific Media Centre Analysis published with permission of PMC David Robie ISBN/code: 9781927184578 Price: $20.00 Publication date: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 Publisher: Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication (AIJC) in association with SciDev.Net and the Pacific Media Centre: Manila and Auckland. “Disaster reporting, which focuses on deaths and casualties for the benefit of local […]
Read More →MIL-Evening Report: Quantum physics experiment shows Heisenberg was right about uncertainty, in a certain sense
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Howard Wiseman, Director, Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University The word uncertainty is used a lot in quantum mechanics. One school of thought is that this means there’s something out there in the world that we are uncertain about. But most physicists believe nature itself is uncertain. […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: Fathers need to care for themselves as well as their kids – but often don’t
Source: The Conversation – USA – By Derek M. Griffith, Professor of Medicine, Health & Society and Founder and Director of the Center for Research on Men’s Health, Vanderbilt University If you had to choose, which would you rather have: a healthy father or a good father? Studies suggest men often choose being a good […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: Saudi and Iran: how our two countries could make peace and bring stability to the Middle East
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Samira Nasirzadeh, PhD Research Fellow, Lancaster University Relations between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran have rarely been worse, regarding the attacks on the oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman – for which both sides blame each other. Nevertheless, in the history […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: What the Toronto Raptors have taught us about resilience
Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Jamie Gruman, Professor of Organizational Behaviour, University of Guelph The Toronto Raptors have won their first NBA title in franchise history, and their star player, Kawhi Leonard, was crowned the most valuable player in the finals. But just a year ago, Leonard’s career was plagued by injuries that […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: What we learned from round one of the Conservative leadership contest – in five easy charts
Source: The Conversation – UK – By David Jeffery, Lecturer in British Politics, University of Liverpool It’s been a long time coming, but finally we have seen the first round of the Conservative Party’s leadership election. Boris Johnson leads the pack with 114 votes – 36.4% of Conservative MPs – with the next placed candidate, […]
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