By Peter Draper, Professor, and Executive Director: Institute for International Trade, and Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Trade and Environment, University of Adelaide
Nathan Howard Gray, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for International Trade, University of Adelaide
This week, US President Donald Trump approved previously banned exports of Nvidia’s powerful H200 artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China.
In return, the US government will receive 25% of the sales revenue, in what has become a hallmark of this administration to take a sales cut of a private company’s revenues.
The H200 is Nvidia’s second-most powerful AI processor. It’s roughly…
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By Alexander Howard, Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
Andrew Ross Sorkin’s book, 1929, takes us inside the Wall Street crash that led to the Depression. It asks: does history repeat itself? And what can we learn from it?
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By Peter Newman, Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
Ray Wills, Adjunct Professor, The University of Western Australia
Gas was long thought to be essential as a backup for a clean energy grid. But enormous growth in grid-scale batteries has changed the game.
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By Amnesty International
Responding to reports of a Myanmar military air strike on a hospital in Rakhine State on Wednesday night, international Human Rights Day, Amnesty International’s Myanmar Researcher Joe Freeman said: “Nowhere and no one is safe from the violence of the Myanmar military, which is widening its repression ahead of an election later this month which […] The post Myanmar: Deadly military air strike on hospital shows vicious disregard for right to life appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Amnesty International
Responding to news that the leader of the National Union for Total Revolution of Angola (UNTRA) Serrote José de Oliveria – whose health has been deteriorating since being held in arbitrary detention since 28 July – has begun a hunger strike to protest his unlawful detention, Amnesty International’s Deputy-Director for East and Southern Africa, Flavia […] The post Angola: Authorities must provide urgent medical care to detained UNTRA leader appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Ilya Ilyankou, PhD candidate at SpaceTimeLab, UCL
This technology was developed in response to the stark disparity in how urban safety is experienced by women and men.
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By Joshua Shanes, Emanuel Ringelblum Professor in Jewish History, University of California, Davis
Zionists draw on the military imagery of Hanukkah, while others look to the synagogue prayers that focus on the miracle of divine light.
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By Jill Inderstrodt, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, Indiana University
It’s a rare occasion when my worlds of biomedical informatics and serialized lesbian melodrama fandom collide.
But that’s exactly what happened earlier this summer when two of my favorite actresses appeared on a popular podcast. I was excited to hear them talk about their new book and their history of working together, so I was confused but delighted when their conversation took a turn toward my…
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By Loveline Chizobam Phillips, Ph.D. Candidate, George Mason University
Faye Taxman, Professor of Health Services Criminology, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University
One in 10 babies in the U.S. – nearly 374,000 infants – were born preterm in 2023, meaning before 37 weeks of pregnancy. More than 15% were very preterm, meaning they were born before 32 weeks. A full-term pregnancy lasts 40 weeks.
Florida’s rate is slightly higher, at about 1…
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By Hannah Wiseman, Professor of Law, Penn State
Seth Blumsack, Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics and International Affairs, Penn State
The Trump administration has made several efforts to support the coal industry, but even if coal were free, the economics aren’t in its favor.
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