Tag: The Science of Where Magazine

TechInnovation/Military – Bell wants to soup up tilt-rotor aircraft by adding jet engines (Popular Science)

ROB VERGER for Popular Science: The latest concepts from aircraft-maker Bell, released on Monday, are hybrid flying machines that promise to take off and...

TechInnovation – These futuristic shoe inserts could make navigation easier for the visually impaired (Popular Science)

CHARLOTTE HU writes: A Honda-backed startup called Ashirase is stepping into the global marketplace with a new navigation assistance product intended to help people with...

Space – See galactic triplets play tug-of-war in Hubble’s latest snapshot (Popular Science)

ERIN FENNESSY writes: Sibling skirmishes don’t just happen on Earth, but in space, too. Last week, the Hubble Space Telescope, a joint project run...

Space – How old is the universe? Our answer keeps getting better (Popular Science)

CHARLIE WOOD  writes: In milliseconds, Google can serve up a fact that long eluded many of humanity’s deepest thinkers: The universe is nearly 14...

USA/Misinformation – The Air Force is mounting a war against Facebook misinformation (Popular Science)

DAVID ROZA/TASK & PURPOSE  writes: There’s a war going on and, like it or not, you’ve already been drafted into it. But there’s no...

Russia/Defense/Ukraine – New Wings for the Ukrainian Air Force (The Jamestown Foundation)

Yuri Lapaiev writes: On July 20, Russian United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), Rostec and Sukhoi officially unveiled their newest single-engine fighter, nicknamed the “Checkmate,” at...

Europe/Georgia – Charles Michel Tries to Keep Georgia From Leaving the European Orbit (The Jamestown Foundation)

Giorgi Menadbe writes: On July 29, Charles Michel, the president of the European Council (the main policy-setting body of the European Union), released a...

Europe/Black Sea Region – Will the EU Shake off Its Lethargy Over the Protracted Conflicts in the Black Sea Region? (Part Two) (The Jamestown...

Vladimir Socor writes: The European Union has yet to develop a policy regarding the protracted (“frozen”) conflicts in the wider Black Sea region. Russia...

Global Order – Dividends of World Peace in 2050: A New Environment for Humanity (Valdai Discussion Club)

Andrey Sushentsov writes: After the end of the Cold War 30 years ago, substantial economic and social resources were freed up throughout the world,...

Global Order – The Cultural Revolution of the West and World Politics (Valdai Discussion Club)

Richard Sakwa writes: In 1945 the US agreed to compromise its unfettered freedom of action in international affairs in the belief that engagement with...

China – Making Chinese IPOs a bit more private (East Asia Forum)

Juan Du writes: The responses of Chinese regulators to initial public offerings (IPOs) by the country’s homegrown tech companies have made headlines beyond financial...

Philippines – International efforts to hold Duterte to account yield anger from the Philippine government (East Asia Forum)

Gemmo Fernandez writes: On 14 June 2021, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Fatou Bensouda announced the completion of her preliminary examination into the...

Germany – “None of the above?”: Germany’s eminently resistible chancellor candidates have escaped the hardships of previous leaders (Brookings)

Constanze Stelzenmüller writes: It’s August, and the living ought to be easy. But Germany votes in eight weeks, and all three candidates vying to...

USA – What are Build America Bonds or direct-pay municipal bonds? (Brookings)

Nasiha Salwati and David Wessel write: Interest on many municipal bonds issued by local and state governments and some non-profits is exempt from federal income taxes....

Future of Warfare – Loitering munitions preview the autonomous future of warfare (Brookings)

Kelsey Atherton writes: Loitering missiles operate from a simple premise: What if a missile could become more accurate by slowing down? Awkward cousins to...

USA – Underfunding HBCUs leads to an underrepresentation of Black faculty (Brookings)

Kristen Broady, Andre M. Perry, and Carl Romer write: This May, the University of North Carolina’s Board of Trustees denied a tenure position to Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer-Prize-winning...