L’acronimo VUCA è nato negli anni ’80 ma viene citato molto spesso in questo periodo storico proprio per il suo significato di Volatilità, Incertezza, Complessità e Ambiguità che sono caratteristiche dell’attuale scenario globale che stiamo vivendo: V= Volatility, cioè volatilità, intesa come instabilità, mutevolezza U= Uncertainty, cioè incertezza, emblema di questo momento storico
by Eliza Blue, The Daily YonderJanuary 27, 2023 After several mild winters in a row, this winter is apparently intent on testing our mettle. Snow came early and has fallen often, accompanied by dangerously cold and high winds. Before the winter solstice even arrived, it felt like we were already several months into
Mark Kreidler January 20, 2023 When Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest and collapsed on the field in the middle of the “Monday Night Football” game in Cincinnati on Jan. 2, Carrie Hastings, half a continent away, understood what she needed to do — and right away. “I had a few
Paleogenomic research has expanded rapidly over the past two decades, igniting heated debate about handling remains. Who gives consent for study participants long gone — and who should speak for them today? By Emiliano Rodríguez Mega The 2022 Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine has brought fresh attention to paleogenomics, the sequencing of
By: Fatima Bani Ahmed Electric car early adopters in oil-poor Jordan are now having to grapple with the thorny question of battery disposal, as demand for the technology accelerates across the region. It’s eight years since Jordan first began to import electric cars – the first country in the Middle East to
by Adam Goldstein, Alaska BeaconJanuary 26, 2023 WASHINGTON – A panel of policymakers and educators, including author Dave Eggers and former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, gathered at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday to promote the American Teacher Act. The bill, if passed, would authorize the federal government to create four-year grants
by Christopher Ingraham, Minnesota ReformerJanuary 25, 2023 This week the state Senate plans to take up a bill that will codify stronger protections for abortion and other reproductive health care rights into state law. The bill has already passed the House, and is considered a top legislative priority for the new DFL trifecta
Pope Francis leads the second vespers service at St. Paul’s Basilica on Jan. 25, 2023, in Rome. Alessandra Benedetti/Corbis via Getty Images Steven P. Millies, Catholic Theological Union Once again, Pope Francis has called on Catholics to welcome and accept LGBTQ people. “Being homosexual isn’t a crime,” the pope said in an interview
by Ashley Murray, Source New Mexico WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Mike Pence is the latest top public official to have been discovered possessing classified material in his personal home, according to a letter his lawyer sent to the National Archives. A dozen documents with classified markings were discovered in Pence’s residence in
This year we bid farewell to two lost frogs, the Chinese paddlefish, a plant from New Hampshire, and many others. Last July scientists in Texas announced some surprising news: They had rediscovered an oak tree species previously believed to be extinct. Until then the last known Quercus tardifolia tree was believed to have