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With Oppenheimer nearing its release and keeping millions of fans curious about how one of the most notorious decisions and actions in history will be executed onscreen, people are snatching a moment to revisit Nolan’s complete oeuvre to try and draw similarities to his forthcoming work. In fact, in an interview with Hugo Décrypte, the filmmaker was specifically asked about the reasons for choosing to create movies with a similar tonality; namely, Nolan’s quintessential dramatic execution of existential crisis. And most…

The research team at a recent Scottish Parliament event promoting their findings. Credit: University of Stirling Experts at the University of Stirling are calling for the arts and culture to be prioritized in funding decisions after new research showed the significance of cultural hubs during the COVID-19 pandemic. A team led by…

When you hear the word nature, what comes to mind? For me, it’s the lakes of Southern Ontario, where I spent my childhood summers among its pink and gray granite rocks and shadowed pine forests. I picture the rock bass darting through the sunbeams in the water and hear the cicadas humming in the trees. I grew up in the 1970s, and even then, nature was far from untouched. Acid rain and water pollution were already making headlines. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring had raised the alarm in 1962. Seven years later, the Cuyahoga…

Structural Equation Model. Credit: Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.trip.2023.100792 We all remember 2020. At the grocery store, toilet paper shelves were empty. Cleaning supplies and disinfectants were treasured finds. Rattled consumers, concerned that they would run out of essential items, swiftly stockpiled products until they disappeared from shelves. In the media, it was…

Researchers from around the world have embarked on an effort to try to build a system allowing humanity to anticipate violent conflicts before they erupt – and thus potentially prevent them.They will examine dramatic advances in artificial intelligence and how the decisions taken by the world's leaders could be swayed at a time when war in Ukraine has reshaped reality for tens of millions of people."We are living in a crisis society… and different kinds of non-desirable futures exist," Sirkka Heinonen, a professor of…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Rich elites with large swimming pools and well-maintained lawns are leaving poorer communities without basic access to water in cities across the world. New research published today has found social inequalities are driving urban water crises more than environmental factors, such as climate change…

2008 – The subprime crisis breaks in the US with the demise of Lehman Brothers and later in that financial year, an industry icon, Satyam, collapses. Both these events could have taken down less resilient industries and companies or at least led to a temporary decline in fortunes. As chairman of Nasscom that year, it was my task to boldly predict that the industry would weather the storm and still grow, and grow we did, albeit in single digits.This year, we have seen the sudden decline of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and the…

by Bianca Schröder, Forschungsinstitut für Nachhaltigkeit Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam Emissions peaks and economic crises. Number of countries that have and have not peaked CO2 emissions (the year with the highest rolling average of the five past years). OECD and G20 countries. The flag indicates the peak year of the respective country. Credit: Communications Earth & Environment (2023). DOI:…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Through a year of war in Ukraine, the U.S. and most European nations have worked to help counter Russia, in supporting Ukraine both with armaments and in world energy markets. Russia was Europe's main energy supplier when it invaded Ukraine, and President Vladimir Putin threatened to leave Europeans to freeze "like a wolf's tail"—a reference to a famous Russian fairy tale—if they imposed…

Last updated: January 26th, 2023 at 14:39 UTC+01:00 The semiconductor market has been in turmoil for the past couple of years due to supply chain disruptions caused by COVID and, more recently, fears of an economic recession. But despite these hurdles and the fact that Samsung expects profits from its semiconductor business to be halved in 2023, the company recently announced that it attained the ISO 22301 Certificate for Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) from the British Standards Institution (BSI). The…