MIL-OSI Global: Vegan dogs: should they go meat free?
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Wanda McCormick, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Science and Technology, Anglia Ruskin University Over the last ten years, it’s estimated there has been a 360% rise in veganism in Britain – around 542,000 people have “gone vegan”. As a nation of animal lovers, with around 44% of […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: Would a vote on the Brexit deal be a betrayal? What social psychology tells us
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Ken Rotenberg, Professor in Psychology, Keele University Prime minister Theresa May has responded to calls for a referendum on the final Brexit deal by stating that it would be a “gross betrayal” of trust. Referring to the original referendum, she said that people “trusted that their vote would […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: France, the land of entrepreneurs…
Source: The Conversation – France – By Fernanda Arreola, Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation @ EMLV, Pôle Léonard de Vinci – UGEI In a recent Twitter post, President Macron wanted us to remember something; the word entrepreneur is in fact French. Meanwhile, French start-ups still need to take a more dominant role on the international […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: Trump’s ‘all-out effort’ on climate is derelict and risky
Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Sameer H. Shah, PhD Candidate, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES), University of British Columbia As Hurricane Florence made landfall, we could not help but reflect on the enormous human and financial toll of weather and climate-related disasters from last year. According to the National Oceanic and […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: Should you trust your boss? Your lover? Here’s how to measure it
Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Victoria Handford, Associate Professor in Education, Thompson Rivers University One of the topics most frequently discussed “at the water-cooler” is how much we may, or may not, trust people — from employers and managers to co-workers, friends and lovers. Trust, of course, is vital for individual relationships and […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: Tech’s next great opportunity is mid-career workers
Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Arvind Gupta, Pofessor of computer science at the University of Toronto and the former CEO & founder of MITACS, University of Toronto In the movie The Intern, a 70-year-old Robert De Niro decides to make a career change and lands an internship at an online fashion startup overflowing […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: Chequers plan: why Theresa May’s Brexit blueprint is not quite dead
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Simon Usherwood, Reader in Politics, University of Surrey The informal meeting of EU leaders in Salzburg on September 19 and 20 was not intended to be primarily about the UK or Brexit. The EU faces serious challenges around internal security and migration that come much higher up the […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: Ford’s fight with Toronto shows legal vulnerability of cities
Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Jeffrey B. Meyers, Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Thompson Rivers University The ping pong legal battle between Ontario Premier Doug Ford and the City of Toronto — all of it playing out amid a municipal election campaign in Canada’s largest city — has highlighted Ford’s longstanding feud with his […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: Rhino horn must become a socially unacceptable product in Asia
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jason Gilchrist, Ecologist, Edinburgh Napier University At current rates of loss to poaching, rhino species will be extinct within our lifetimes. The big problem is demand for their horn from Asia. The market for rhino horn is moving from “traditional” medicine to “investment value” as jewellery and other […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: Wild boars run amok in the city of Genoa, as abandoned rural areas are ‘rewilded’
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Robert Hearn, Assistant Professor in Human Geography, University of Nottingham Crossing the Ponte Gerolamo Serra in the Italian city of Genoa, I spotted a small crowd clustered by the river wall. I approached, intrigued, and peered over the wall to discover the subject of their delight: a sounder […]
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