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 DISCOVER Magazine, Nov/Dec 2021

از مجله دیسکاور- نوامبر و دسامبر ۲۰۲۱

کسانی که در جولای سال ۱۸۸۸ در آن سالن جمع شده بودند نمیدانستند که چه اتفاقی در شُرُف وقوع بود. ولی همینکه سگ ۱۵۰ کیلویی را دیدند دلواپس شدند. برقکار، هرولد براون، در یک سالن در نیوفاندلند این سگ را در یک قفس حبس کرده بود. ابتدا او آغاز به خواندن مقاله‌ای کرد که در آن توضیح میداد که برق فشار قوی بسیار پر قدرتتر از برق فشار ضعیف بود. پس از اتمام این توضیحات، پنبه‌ای را خیس کرد و آنرا با سیم لخت به پای راست جلو و پای چپ عقب‌ سگ وصل کرد. نفس در سینه تماشاچیان حبس شده بود، چون میدانستند که اتفاق بدی رخ خواهد داد، بخصوص که سیم‌های برق به یک ژنراتور وصل بودند. پس از پایان این کار، براون کلید ژنراتور را زد.ا

Bipartisan American Empire and Catastrophic Climate Change

ALFRED W. MCCOY

November 18, 2021

The environmental destruction in our future will be so profound that anything less than the emergence of a new form of global governance—one capable of protecting the planet and the human rights of all its inhabitants—will mean that wars over water, land, and people are likely to erupt across the planet amid climate chaos.

When the leaders of more than 100 nations gathered in Glasgow for the U.N. climate conference last week, there was much discussion about the disastrous effect of climate change on the global environment. There was, however, little awareness of its likely political impact on the current world order that made such an international gathering possible.

Free

This four-letter word is almost everyone's favorite. It has many different meanings, especially when it is attached to other words. The most popular and favorite meaning of “free” is receiving something with no obligation and without compensating anything in return. Mariam-Webster has 18 definitions for this word, and when it is added to other words as a prefix or suffix, there is a huge number of options with positive connotations, the most famous one being “freedom”, which has a slew of meanings on its own. 

 

 

With COP26 in Overtime

 With COP26 in Overtime, Draft Deal Denounced as 'Clear Betrayal by Rich Nations'

"Instead of funding for loss and damage, what we have is yet another greenwash that will ensure genocide by extreme weather events in developing countries."

Cover-Up of US Nuclear Sub Collision in South China Sea

By John V. Walsh

November 01, 2021

So warned Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte in his address to the UN General Assembly on September 22, 2020. He was referring to the consequences for East Asia of a conflict between the US and China.Fast forward to October 2, 2021, about one year later, and the first patch of grass has been stomped on by the U.S. elephant, trudging stealthily about, far from home in the South China Sea. On that day the nuclear-powered attack submarine, the USS Connecticut, suffered serious damage in an undersea incident which the US Navy ascribed to a collision with an undersea object.