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I’m old enough to remember the first computers being introduced into newsrooms. That was over 40 years ago. They were big and ugly. Every piece of them – from their inelegant architecture to the microchips driving them – was manufactured in Japan. Then the pendulum began to swing, and by the turn of this century China was establishing itself as the king of computer manufacturing. Particularly microchips. Now the pendulum is swinging back in spectacular fashion.
Companies like South Korea’s Samsung and the US’s Intel have all just announced that they will be opening up production plants in Japan. These decisions are being driven by Washington, which is doing everything it can to get production away from China and back on US soil, or to countries it considers its friends. Like Japan. Jonathan Munemo explains why Africa stands to lose out from these seismic changes. He suggests what African countries could do to limit the damage.
What does having a tough, unhappy childhood mean for our adult years? Is there a way to overcome a bad start in life? Elizabeth Lange sets out why the lives, behaviour and friendships of a community of wild baboons in Kenya hold some clues to answering these questions.
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Jonathan Munemo, Salisbury University
Washington’s protectionist industrial policy is fracturing trade and investment flows based on geopolitical considerations.
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Elizabeth Lange, State University of New York Oswego
Early life environments and adult social bonds both have strong effects on survival.
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Roger Southall, University of the Witwatersrand
Activists view their moral case for the return of the diamonds as unanswerable, but it runs up against many complications.
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Toyin Falola, The University of Texas at Austin
Obaro Ikime, Nigerian academic and historian, died on 25 April 2023. He was 86.
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Gavin Evans, Birkbeck, University of London
The book is a gripping read for anyone interested in late 20th century history, and in the end of apartheid.
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Timothy Hearn, Anglia Ruskin University
A new study looked at mouse models and health data from more than 90,000 shift workers in the UK.
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Lewis Ryder, University of Manchester
Through collector Jordan’s fetishistic interest in Asian women, Beef shows the troubling link between collecting artefacts and sexual control.
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Stephen Buchmann, University of Arizona
Scientists are learning amazing things about bees’ sensory perception and mental capabilities.
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