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Kabul, Afghanistan, 1972

By ShamsMarch 11, 2017Culture, Media, Politics1972, afghanistan, kabul

Kabul, Afghanistan, 1972. pic.twitter.com/IYlmbQ2KY6 — History In Pictures (@HistoryInPix) 11. März 2017

Costs of War: $4.4 trillion, 350,000 lives

By Guest PostSeptember 2, 2014Politicsafghanistan, brown university, catherine lutz, costs of war, flemming videbaek, international studies, Iraq, isis, nicholas paulter, Pakistan, strategie, syria, watson institute

Updated figures for the direct costs of war in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan now stand at more than 350,000 lives lost and $4.4 trillion spent. Indirectly, another 250,000 lives have been lost to war-related causes like loss of civilian access to food and health care, and another $8 trillion in interest on war debt may come due during the next 40 years.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — The Costs of War project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies has released updated figures for the human and financial costs of the U.S. wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. (more…)

Irgendwas mit Europa

By Guest PostApril 13, 2014Politicsafghanistan, ahmad alsaleem, artenvielfalt, benjamin edwards, cooling dna, daniel blair, data breaches, devic, dots qpcr, dustin harshman, eric allen, eu richtlinie, Facebook, hacker, healthx, ICANN, jacob applebaum, jena experiment, jeong-yeol yoon, lazy eye, moran eye center, nina hacker, stefan schulz, stephanie forrest, steven hofmeyr, Twitter, yvonne oelmann

So oft die Europäische Union auch abgekanzelt wird – in den letzten beiden Wochen fanden einige Entscheidungen auf verschiedenen Ebenen der EU statt, die aus netzpolitischer Sicht erfreulich sind: Das Europäische Parlament entschied für die Netzneutralität, der EuGH kippte die EU-Richtlinie zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung. Vielleicht bestätigt das doch die Wichtigkeit der anstehenden Wahl des Europäischen Parlaments im Mai. Dass diese Entscheidungen aber nicht ausreichen, wir selber mit unseren eigenen Widersprüchlichkeiten und denen des Internets umgehen müssen, lesen Sie in unserer Presseschau.

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Neue Netzdebatten braucht das Land

By Guest PostJanuary 18, 2014Politics, Technologyafghanistan, afrika, blogger sascha lobo, csu, derek muller, digitalen doppelpass, digitales deutschland, e government, Facebook, faz, florian schmitt, gesellschaft, hightech internet, internet, internet guru, kaputtheit, markus soeder, medienjournalist, michael seemann, open data, politik, positive effekte, presseschau, veritasium, werbung bei youtube, werkzeug zum ueberleben, woche, youtube channel, zusammenhang

In unserer Presseschau blicken wir auf eine debattenreiche Woche zurück. Der Blogger Sascha Lobo fühlt sich auf einmal gekränkt und tritt eine breite Debatte los. Stehen Internet und Politik vielleicht in einem engeren Zusammenhang, als wir alle dachten? Ist nur das Internet kaputt oder ist sogar unsere Demokratie in Gefahr? Warum spielt die CSU einen „digitalen Doppelpass“ in den eigenen Reihen, so als spielte sie das Endspiel gegen die Piraten? Hat das Internet also nun positive Effekte, bei der Verwaltung, der Regierung oder der Diskussion politischer Themen oder ist es der negative Alleszermalmer unserer Gesellschaft? Vielleicht wird das Internet in anderen Teilen der Welt noch als nützliches Instrument und weitaus positiver als hierzulande gesehen.

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Derek Muller betreibt den Youtube-Channel Veritasium. In unserem Video der Woche vergleicht er die Filtermechanismen und die Funktionsweise von Werbung bei Youtube und Facebook. (more…)

Playing with future of British armed forces

By Guest PostNovember 23, 2013Politics, Weaponsafghanistan, armed forces, barbie, best selling, body armour, british homes, british troops, conflict, cultures, geopolitical climates, help for heroes, her majesty, hmaf dolls, licensed by, london, military action figure, ministry of defence, professor klaus dodds, royal holloway university, sean carter, social scientists, tara woodyer, toy range, university of exeter, university of portsmouth, war, withdrawal

Social scientists are to examine whether action figure dolls help form children’s opinions on war and have a role to play in shaping the future of our armed forces.

It is the first time research has examined the role of toys in the making of young citizens. The £492,508 project is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.

The researchers, Dr Sean Carter, from Geography at the University of Exeter, Dr Tara Woodyer, of the University of Portsmouth and Professor Klaus Dodds, of Royal Holloway University of London, have expertise in human geography, children’s play, childhood studies, geopolitics and the culture of war. (more…)

From military to MBA

By Guest PostSeptember 23, 2013Educationafghanistan, arabian peninsula, black sea, charles altman, d day planning, ernie lietzan, gi bill, heidi sandell, infantry, Iraq, level of accuracy, marine captain, marine corps base, marine infantry, mba program, middle east, military service, military to mba, national guard, operation new dawn, persian gulf, philip miller, quantico, robert paulus, university of minnesota, virginia

How the Carlson School supports veterans going for an MBA

Looking to apply to an MBA program, Heidi Sandell faced a common problem among veterans.

“I had a hard time translating my skills into something the business world could use and appreciate,” says Sandell, who served four years in the U.S. Navy. (more…)

A truly global course

By Guest PostJune 5, 2013Educationafghanistan, australia, basic knowledge, california, class environment, food, food systems, global course, global life cycle, jason hill, kimberley mullins, mcknight land grant, minnesota, mooc platform, moocs, perspective, population, powerpoint slides, student in zimbabwe, sustainability, university of minnesota, world

Sixteen years ago, Jason Hill stood before some 30 students in one of his first classes as a teaching assistant at the University of Minnesota. This June, more than 14,000 students will log on to take his course, Sustainability of Food Systems: A Global Life Cycle Perspective.

Hill’s class is among the first five massive open online courses (MOOCs) the U of M is offering (for free) through a partnership with Coursera, a leading MOOC platform. (more…)

Blast concussions could cause pituitary deficiencies in war vets

By Guest PostJune 3, 2013Healthafghanistan, behavioral sciences, blast concussions, brain injuries, charles w wilkinson, clinical evaluation, depression, elaine r peskind, elizabeth a colasurdo, frequency, hormones, hypopituitarism, Iraq, jane b shofer, kathleen f pagulayan, mental health, oxytocin, pituitary deficiencies, pituitary hormone levels, post traumatic, ptsd, sexual function, stress disorder, university of washington, vasopressin, veterans, war vets

Many veterans suffering from blast concussions may have hormone deficiencies that mimic some of the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and depression, according to researchers with the Department of Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System and the University of Washington.

The researchers screened 35 veterans with blast injuries. They found that 42 percent had irregular hormone levels indicative of hypopituitarism, a condition that can often be controlled by replacing the deficient hormones. (more…)

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