08 JUN 2022 “You can’t manage what you can’t measure”, according to a famous business mantra often attributed to management guru Peter Drucker. This can help explain why carbon emissions are under more scrutiny than ever as we ramp up our efforts to avoid the catastrophic effects of climate change. For example, the “carbon footprint” – …
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07 JUN 2022 Our bodies are pretty ingenious when it comes to self-repair, and scientists have been studying in detail the ways in which the heart patches itself up after a heart attack (myocardial infarction). They hope to find clues that could lead to better treatments for cardiovascular problems. New …
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06 JUN 2022 Vegan and vegetarian diets are certainly trendy, with more people than ever before making the switch. While some people are choosing to go plant-based for environmental reasons, others are adopting these diets because of their health benefits. It’s hardly surprising, given studies have linked vegetarian and vegan diets …
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05 JUNE 2022 Atlantic Container Line (ACL) and Cunard have marked the 40th anniversary of the ‘darkest day in ACL’s history’ when its vessel, the Liverpool registered SS Atlantic Conveyor, was struck by two Argentine Exocet missiles killing 12 crew during the Falklands War. The event took place on May 25, the …
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04 JUNE 2022 Fixing cybersecurity problems requires understanding how seafarers themselves perceive cyber risks. It was the afternoon of June 27, 2017, when nearly every computer serving the Danish shipping giant Maersk went dark. A piece of malware called NotPetya, created by Russians to attack the Ukraine, had accidently snuck …
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03 JUNE 2022 The Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 had a profound impact on shipping in the Black Sea. To prevent the Russian Navy from sailing into their ports and attempting to seize them in a coup de main, Ukrainian tugboats and naval auxiliaries mined the waters along …
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01 JUNE 2022 The European Council has agreed in principle to ban seaborne imports of oil from Russia, leaving a carve-out for pipeline shipments in order to secure the vote of Hungary and other states with high dependence on Russian crude. “The sanctions will immediately impact 75 percent of Russian …
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02 JUN 2022 Earth’s interior is a far from quiet place. Deep below our surface activities, the planet rumbles with activity, from plate tectonics to convection currents that circulate through the hot magmatic fluids far underneath the crust. Now scientists studying satellite data of Earth have identified something inside Earth …
Read More »01 JUN 2022 Occasionally, as a doctor, I am asked to see a patient in the emergency department who is completely mute. They sit motionless, staring around the room. I lift up their arm and it stays in that position. Someone takes a blood test and they don’t even wince. …
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31 MAY 2022 Europe’s headlong embrace of clean energy faces a reality check. “The best laid schemes o’mice an’ men / Gang aft a-gley,” wrote Scottish poet Robert Burns more than 200 years ago. He might just as well have been referring to the experience of the attendees at last …
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