MIL-OSI Global: Indian election: Modi win delivered thanks to faith in economic growth pledges
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jagannadha Pawan Tamvada, Associate Professor in Strategy and Innovation, University of Southampton India’s electoral colossus has re-elected Narendra Modi’s BJP party, following the largest democratic exercise in the world. India has united to put Modi back in office. This is the second time since 1971 that a majority […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: Indian election: Modi win delivered thanks to faith in development pledges
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jagannadha Pawan Tamvada, Associate Professor in Strategy and Innovation, University of Southampton India’s electoral colossus has re-elected Narendra Modi’s BJP party, following the largest democratic exercise in the world. India has united to put Modi back in office. This is the second time since 1971 that a majority […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: India election: how Narendra Modi won with an even bigger majority
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Katharine Adeney, Professor of Politics and Director of the Asia Research Institute, University of Nottingham The stunning majority for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 2019 Indian election is a massive political achievement for its leadership: the prime minister, Narendra Modi, and the party’s president, Amit Shah. […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: European elections – government was warned voters could be turned away at polling stations
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Alistair Clark, Senior Lecturer in Politics, Newcastle University As polling got underway in the European elections in the UK, stories began to emerge about EU nationals being turned away from polling stations because they were not properly registered. As the day went on, more and more claims were […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: Chimpanzees spotted smashing open and eating tortoises for the first time
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Lydia Luncz, Research Fellow, Primate Models for Behavioural Evolution Lab, University of Oxford All chimpanzees eat animals at least sometimes, including anything from ants and termites to bushpigs and even baboons. Monkeys, in fact, are typically the most frequent item on the menu, and in some cases chimpanzees […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: Chimpanzees have been seen smashing open and eating tortoises for the first time
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Lydia Luncz, Research Fellow, Primate Models for Behavioural Evolution Lab, University of Oxford All chimpanzees eat animals at least sometimes, including anything from ants and termites to bushpigs and even baboons. Monkeys, in fact, are typically the most frequent item on the menu, and in some cases chimpanzees […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: Game of Thrones: what Machiavelli might have made of the politics in Westeros
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Toby James, Senior Lecturer in British & Comparative Politics, University of East Anglia Warning: this contains spoilers for Game of Thrones, series eight. Alongside many other aspects of the final series of Game of Thrones, the “hand-break turn” performed by Daenerys Targaryen, the Mother of Dragons, received heavy […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: Earthquakes or tiger attacks: understanding what people fear most can help prevent disasters
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Hanna Ruszczyk, Assistant Professor, Durham University It’s been more than four years since a magnitude 7.8 earthquake devastated Nepalese cities, claiming thousands of lives. Since then, there have been thousands of aftershocks. Yet when I spoke with residents of Bharatpur – Nepal’s fourth largest city – as part […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: ‘They’ll give me a detention but it’ll be worth it’ – a climate scientist interviews his climate striking daughter
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Mark Maslin, Professor of Earth System Science, UCL Extinction rebellion, the climate strikes, Greta Thunberg and even the BBC and Netflix have changed the conversation on climate change. Even more than I expected – there’s now a groundswell of public concern that human impact on the planet is […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: Plastic poisons ocean bacteria that produce 10% of the world’s oxygen and prop up the marine food chain
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Petra Cameron, Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Bath We’ve all seen the impact of our plastic addiction. It’s hard to miss the devastating images of whales and sea birds that have died with their stomachs full of solidified fossil fuels. The recent discovery of a plastic bag […]
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