Tag: The Science of Where Magazine

Israel/Gaza/Hamas – Israel attacks Hamas sites in Gaza in response to fire balloons (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: Israeli aircraft bombed Hamas sites in the Gaza Strip on Saturday in response to incendiary balloons launched from the Palestinian enclave, Israel’s...

China/North Korea – Countering China and North Korea’s mad dash for missiles (East Asia Forum)

Jaganath Sankaran writes: China and North Korea have accumulated a significant arsenal of ballistic missiles. China is estimated to possess as many as 1500 short-range ballistic...

China – Reconciling China’s drive for global ascendency and its desire for state control (East Asia Forum)

Roselyn Hsueh writes: The Chinese government created the Shanghai Stock Exchange Science and Technology Innovation Board (STAR) market in 2019 to allow domestic science...

Global – Protecting human and environmental rights in international investment agreements (East Asia Forum)

Gillian Moon writes: Concerns have long been held about certain adverse human and environmental rights impacts of the international investment arbitration system, or investor-state...

China – Viaggio nel “1984” cinese, la società orwelliana di Xi Jinping (Formiche)

Pierfrancesco Malu writes: Talvolta, le opere di fantasia mostrateci al cinema o nei romanzi d’avventura e di fantascienza hanno il pregio di essere semplicemente...

Semiconductors – Fabbrica di chip in Italia? Giorgetti punta su Torino (e Stellantis) (Formiche)

Gabriele Carrer writes: Il Mise punta su Torino per lo stabilimento di assemblaggio dei semiconduttori che il colosso americano Intel vorrebbe aprire in Europa....

Cybersecurity – Chi è Roberto Baldoni, il nuovo cyber zar di Draghi (Formiche)

Francesco Bechis writes: Roberto Baldoni è stato nominato dal presidente del Consiglio Mario Draghi direttore dell’Agenzia per la cybersicurezza nazionale (Acn). Il Consiglio dei ministri ha ufficializzato la scelta:...

Food Security – To build food security, reduce plastic use (IFPRI)

JULIE KURTZ AND DREW SAMPLE write: Our food system has a plastic problem. Macro- and micro-plastic pollution is contaminating aquatic and agricultural ecosystems—threatening food security....

Space – AsiTV replay: Il Giappone entra nel Gateway (Global Science)

Global Science writes: Il Giappone è ufficialmente nel Gateway. Dopo Europa e Canada, partner storici della Iss, anche la Jaxa formalizza il proprio contributo...

Ethiopia – Ethiopia’s economic reforms and development agenda (Chatham House)

Chatham House writes: Ethiopia’s ambition to become a middle-income economy and deliver shared and sustained prosperity is driven by the government’s ‘Ten-Year Perspective Development Plan’...

Malawi – Malawi’s priorities for inclusive prosperity (Chatham House)

Chatham House writes: Malawi has now passed its first year under a new executive following the re-run presidential election of June 2020. The incoming...

USA/Nicaragua – The United States Restricts Visas of 50 Additional Nicaraguan Individuals Affiliated With Ortega-Murillo Regime (US Department of State)

The Department of State has imposed visa restrictions on 50 immediate family members of Nicaraguan National Assembly representatives and Nicaraguan prosecutors and judges. As...

USA/ASEAN – Secretary Blinken’s Participation in the ASEAN Regional Forum Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (US Department of State)

The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met with the foreign ministers of the 26 ARF participating countries,...

Power Relationships/Food Systems – Power relationships within food systems (Chatham House)

Chatham House writes: This session brings together stakeholders, or rather ‘rightsholders’, who represent different parts of power structures within food systems; from farmers and indigenous...

Iran – Iran just got trickier (Chatham House)

Sanam Vakil writes: The election of conservative Ebrahim Raisi as president of Iran has driven home a harsh fact for the international community: the...

Space – NASA’s TESS Tunes into an All-sky ‘Symphony’ of Red Giant Stars (NASA)

NASA writes: Using observations from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have identified an unprecedented collection of pulsating red giant stars all across...