Analysis: Here is a summary of significant articles published on ForeignAffairs.co.nz on May 31, 2025.
MIL-OSI Global: How seaweed is a powerful, yet surprising, climate solution
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Mike Allen, Associate Professor of Single Cell Genomics, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter Picture a place at the centre of a global seaweed revolution. I’ll bet the small English seaside town of Paignton in south Devon is not what comes to mind. A decade […]
MIL-OSI Global: One lawsuit just helped melt the fossil fuel industry’s defence against being held accountable for climate change
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Benjamin Franta, Associate Professor of Climate Litigation, University of Oxford There was a time when oil and gas companies happily linked themselves to the idea of planet-wide environmental changes. “Each day Humble supplies enough energy to melt 7 million tons of glacier!” boasts the headline from a 1962 […]
MIL-OSI Global: Veterans’ protests planned for D-Day latest in nearly 250 years of fighting for their benefits
Source: The Conversation – USA – By Jamie Rowen, Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science, UMass Amherst The Bonus Army demonstration at the U.S. Capitol on July 2, 1932. Underwood and Underwood, via Library of Congress Veterans across the United States will gather on June 6, 2025, to protest the Trump administration’s cuts […]
MIL-OSI Global: Neurosymbolic AI is the answer to large language models’ inability to stop hallucinating
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Artur Garcez, Professor of Computer Science, City St George’s, University of London Down with endless data. Alexander Supertramp The main problem with big tech’s experiment with artificial intelligence (AI) is not that it could take over humanity. It’s that large language models (LLMs) like Open AI’s ChatGPT, Google’s […]
MIL-OSI Global: Coffee can interfere with your medication – here’s what you need to know
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Dipa Kamdar, Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, Kingston University Studio Neeby/Shutterstock For many of us, the day doesn’t start until we’ve had our first cup of coffee. It’s comforting, energising, and one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world. But while your morning brew might feel […]
MIL-OSI Global: Soaring rice prices are stirring political trouble in Japan – history shows this often leads to a change of government
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Ming Gao, Research Scholar of East Asia Studies, Lund University Japan’s agriculture minister, Taku Etō, resigned on May 21 just six months into his term, following a public backlash to his joke that he never buys rice because supporters give it to him for free. Gaffes are by […]
MIL-OSI Global: Reform’s threat to the mainstream parties is unique in UK political history
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Martin Farr, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary British History, Newcastle University Labour’s former shadow chancellor John McDonnell has declared that Keir Starmer’s government has driven “a knife into the heart of what I believed Labour stood for” and called for party members, unions and MPs to take back control. […]
MIL-OSI Global: Solar panels’ shade helps boost Colorado grassland productivity in dry years
Source: The Conversation – USA – By Matthew Sturchio, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Natural Resources and the Environment, Cornell University; Faculty Afffiliate in Ecology, Colorado State University Solar panels on grasslands can generate electricity and useful forage or wildlife habitat. Matthew Sturchio, CC BY-ND Grasses growing in the shade of a solar array were only […]
MIL-OSI Global: The Supreme Court’s gender ruling has implications for the workplace. Here’s what employees can expect
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jonathan Lord, Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Employment Law, University of Salford studiocho/Shutterstock In April 2025, the UK’s Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling in For Women Scotland Ltd v Scottish Ministers, offering long-awaited clarification on how “sex” should be interpreted under the Equality Act 2010. The […]
MIL-OSI Global: Prime numbers, the building blocks of mathematics, have fascinated for centuries − now technology is revolutionizing the search for them
Source: The Conversation – USA – By Jeremiah Bartz, Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of North Dakota Prime numbers are numbers that are not products of smaller whole numbers. Jeremiah Bartz A shard of smooth bone etched with irregular marks dating back 20,000 years puzzled archaeologists until they noticed something unique – the etchings, lines […]
MIL-OSI Global: If it looks like a dire wolf, is it a dire wolf? How to define a species is a scientific and philosophical question
Source: The Conversation – USA – By Elay Shech, Professor of Philosophy, Auburn University How do you recreate a species whose genome is largely unknown? sunxsand/iStock via Getty Images Plus Biotech company Colossal Biosciences made headlines in April 2025 after claiming it had “successfully restored … the dire wolf to its rightful place in the […]
MIL-OSI Global: Detroit’s population grew in 2023, 2024 − a strategy to welcome immigrants helps explain the turnaround from decades of population decline
Source: The Conversation – USA – By Paul N. McDaniel, Associate Professor of Geography, Kennesaw State University The Mexican-American community in southwest Detroit held a rally in March 2025, asking ICE to leave the immigrant community alone. Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Detroit’s population grew in 2024 for the second year in a […]
MIL-OSI Global: Millions of US children have parents with substance use disorder, and the consequences are staggering − new research
Source: The Conversation – USA – By Ty Schepis, Professor of Psychology, Texas State University Alcohol is the most common substance misused by parents. igorr1/iStock via Getty Images Plus About 1 in 4 U.S. children – nearly 19 million – have at least one parent with substance use disorder. This includes parents who misuse alcohol, […]
MIL-OSI Global: Hurricane season is here, but FEMA’s policy change could leave low-income areas less protected
Source: The Conversation – USA – By Ivis García, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University Hurricane Harvey inundated the Cottage Grove neighborhood of Houston in 2018. Scott Olson/Getty Images When powerful storms hit your city, which neighborhoods are most likely to flood? In many cities, they’re typically low-income areas. They […]
MIL-OSI Global: Solar arrays help boost Colorado grassland productivity in dry years
Source: The Conversation – USA – By Matthew Sturchio, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Natural Resources and the Environment, Cornell University; Faculty Afffiliate in Ecology, Colorado State University Solar panels on grasslands can generate electricity and useful forage or wildlife habitat. Matthew Sturchio, CC BY-ND Grasses growing in the shade of a solar array were only […]
MIL-OSI Global: The biggest barrier to AI adoption in the business world isn’t tech – it’s user confidence
Source: The Conversation – USA – By Greg Edwards, Adjunct Lecturer, Missouri University of Science and Technology Believe in your own decision-making. Feodora Chiosea/Getty Images Plus The Little Engine That Could wasn’t the most powerful train, but she believed in herself. The story goes that, as she set off to climb a steep mountain, she […]
MIL-OSI Global: Why police released the ethnicity of Liverpool parade crash suspect
Source: The Conversation – UK – By John McGarry, Senior Lecturer in Law, Leeds Beckett University Within hours of a driver ramming into a crowd at Liverpool’s Premier League victory parade, injuring 65 people, Merseyside Police shared in a press release that they had arrested a suspect. Unusually, the announcement included the race and nationality […]
MIL-OSI Global: Trump sees himself as more like a king than president. Here’s why
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Dafydd Townley, Teaching Fellow in US politics and international security, University of Portsmouth The American Revolution was a result of the tyranny experienced by colonists under the British monarchy. Many Americans had fled from Europe where they had been persecuted under the rule of powerful monarchs. The government […]
MIL-OSI Global: Male infertility: how lab-produced sperm could transform fertility treatment in the future
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Eoghan Cunnane, Associate Professor in Biomedical Materials Engineering, University of Limerick George Rudy/Shutterstock Imagine a future where a diagnosis of untreatable male infertility is no longer the end of the road – because science has found a way to produce human sperm from lab-engineered testicular tissue. This might […]
MIL-OSI Global: Why auction of Buddha relics was called off and why it matters – an expert in Asian art explains
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Stephen A Murphy, Pratapaditya Pal Senior Lecturer in Curating and Museology of Asian Art, SOAS, University of London The slick online catalogue entry for “Premium Lot 1, The Piprahwa Gems of the Historical Buddha” on the Sotheby’s Hong Kong website was abruptly replaced on May 7 with a […]