Precision key to cost effective milk production
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2020-08-13
Will Trump or Biden win the US election? This could be a better predictor than the polls
Joe Biden, the Democratic challenger in November’s US presidential election, has finally picked his candidate for vice president: Kamala Harris. Has picking Harris, who is Black and Asian American, improved Biden’s chances of winning the election? Or has it actually improved the chances of Donald Trump to get re-elected? DependingContinue Reading
2020-08-13
The historic selection of Kamala Harris as the Democrats’ vice-presidential candidate resonates in the Caribbean · Global Voices
‘A big moment for Caribbean people in America’ U.S. Senator Kamala Harris speaking with attendees at the 2019 National Forum on Wages and Working People in Las Vegas, Nevada. Photo by Gage Skidmore on Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0. The August 11 announcement that Joe Biden, the Democratic party’s candidate forContinue Reading
2020-08-13
A-level results: confusion is the result of months of inertia and years of policy
fizkes/Shutterstock Thirty-six hours before the release of A-level results in England on August 13, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson announced a new procedure to review the grades. This followed five months of work by teachers and exam regulators to produce results which were sent to universities last week to filter applications.Continue Reading
2020-08-13
Coronavirus: have we already missed the opportunity to build a better world?
Chad Madden/Unsplash, FAL Many people like to say that the coronavirus is teaching us a lesson, as if the pandemic were a kind of morality play that should lead to a change in our behaviour. It shows us that we can make big shifts quickly if we want to. ThatContinue Reading
2020-08-13
Proposals by the UK government will effectively sanction war crimes by British troops
I spent much of the late 1990s as a reserve military intelligence officer involved in the hunt for war criminals in Bosnia. We got most of them in the end. A couple of years later, as a civilian human rights officer, I visited dozens of shallow graves and killing sitesContinue Reading
2020-08-13
Local lockdowns can be successful – here’s what we need to make them work
Over the past few weeks, the UK government has gradually eased national lockdown measures. As the economy reopens, and people return to workplaces and spend more time in shops, pubs and restaurants, the number of contacts an individual has with other people will inevitably increase. Since then, there has beenContinue Reading
2020-08-13
Building safer online spaces in Myanmar · Global Voices
Facebook faces great scrutiny in Myanmar A monk using his phone at the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar. Photo and caption by Remko Tanis, Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) This article was written by Aye Min Thant, Tech for Peace Manager at Phandeeyar, an innovation lab in Myanmar. Every person inContinue Reading
2020-08-12