Month: July 2022
wishful thinking of Vladimir Putin being unwell
Speculation Vladimir Putin is sick and could be assassinated is wishful thinking, the head of UK’s armed forces has said. The admiral warned of Russia’s nuclear power, cyber capabilities and space capabilities as the country continues its war on Ukraine .The challenge of Russia is going to endure way beyond 2022 and 2023 and 2024,
Biden’s Realism
Throughout this century, presidents have often pushed aggressively to extend the boundaries of executive power. When it comes to the thorniest issues confronting his administration, the instinct from Biden and his White House is often to speak about what he cannot do, citing constraints imposed by the courts or insufficient support in a Congress controlled
Sri Lanka: Pope calls for dialogue
The Pope has called for “dialogue” and asked for “peace” for Sri Lanka where the disruption of basic food supplies has triggered a social and political crisis that has ended with the resignation and flight of its president. “Dear brothers and sisters, I join you in prayer and I urge all parties to seek a
Russian civil-military administration in the occupied Ukrainian regions
The Russian government has announced the beginning of the work of the civil-military administration in the occupied Kherson region in the south of the country bordering Crimea. Kherson, both the region and its eponymous capital, was one of the first places in Ukraine to come under Russian control in the invasion that began in February
Protecting China economy
In 2000 China was the biggest merchandise trading partner of only a tiny number of countries. Now it is the biggest partner of more than 60. Between 1985 and 2015 Chinese exports of goods to America rose by a factor of 125. Partly as a result of the associated manufacturing boom, growth in China’s gdp
protecting LGBTQ on social media platforms
Current content moderation and hate speech policies continue to be inadequate, failing to protect LGBTQ users and the LGBTQ community as a whole, while at the same time companies knowingly neglect to enforce the policies that do exist. Technology companies are not doing enough to make their platforms safe for LGBTQ users .There has been
Covi-19 disastrous effect on education
In 2019 the World Bank started keeping count of the number of children who still cannot read by the time they finish primary school. It found that less than half of ten-year-olds in developing countries could read and understand a simple story. The pandemic struck and hundreds of millions of pupils were locked out of
Cancer on Elephants
Elephants are much larger than humans and live for a similar length of time, yet they only rarely develop cancer. That is odd. Cancer, after all, is something of a numbers game: the more cells, the more replications. The more replications, the greater the likelihood of random dna damage and a cell going rogue, failing
Data preservation during Quantum age
The existing encryption standards that underpin just about every online exchange of information are a bit of gnarly mathematics designed to be well-nigh impossible for today’s computers to crack without just the right arithmetical key. It is not often that a bit of mind-bending mathematics can avert disaster. You need new mathematical ideas, some of
World dependency on small cobalt miners from DRC
cobalt is now at the heart of the green economy. It is an essential component of batteries in phones, laptops and electric cars, which are now the biggest source of demand. The authors of an imf paper published last year predicted that consumption of cobalt could increase six-fold by 2050 as the world tries to