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Boycott Campaign Against 2022 Beijing Olympics is Divisive
Boycott Campaign Against 2022 Beijing Olympics is Divisive
As the 2022 Beijing Olympics approaches not long after the Summer Olympics, there have been political boycott campaigns against the upcoming event. Spearheaded by the U.S., Australia, the UK, and Canada, the diplomatic campaign means the countries will still send athletes, but no government officials will attend the event. The boycott protests the alleged human rights abuse against the Uyghurs in Chinese concentration camps and the severe crackdo...
PHI BIOMED: from POSTECH Lab to Global Market
Nice to meet you. I am Sei Kwang Hahn, Seokchun Chair Professor in the Department of Material Science and Engineering (MSE) and CEO of the Biomedical Nanomaterials Lab (BNL). I obtained my B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at KAIST. As the youngest Ph.D., I joined the LG Chemical group in 1996. At the LG Chemical Research Institute, I carried out my research on biodegradable polymers including hyaluronate (HA) and the sustained release formu...
A New Eye in the Universe
A New Eye in the Universe
Humankind and the UniverseHumankind has been observing the universe since the ancient past. In 3000 B.C., many civilizations such as the Sumerians, who carved stars on clay plates, observed and recorded the movements of the sun, moon, and stars in the sky. Egyptians observed the sky and predicted the flooding period of the Nile River, and the ancient Greek philosophers such as Thales, Aristotle, and Ptolemy observed the sky and mathematically org...
The Emergence of a New COVID-19 Variant: Omicron
The Emergence of a New COVID-19 Variant: Omicron
Entering 2022, it has been two years since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out. For two years, there have been so many changes in our lives, and things such as wearing masks outside, writing a visitor log, or being aware of the number of people in gatherings, are now parts of our daily routine. With the development of COVID-19 vaccines in the middle of 2021, people hoped that the pandemic would be eased and go back to those normal days. However, for ...
How Your Diet Can Change the Course of Human History
How Your Diet Can Change the Course of Human History
The image of climate change is often dominated by the melting ice caps, rising sea levels, and CO2 emissions. Indeed, they are one of the largest and most dire problems, but they somewhat occlude the other problems at hand and tend to undermine the importance of individual action. The fact is that livestock is responsible for 7.5 billion tons of CO2 (carbon dioxide equivalent) per year, 14.5% of annual global emissions. This is not taking into ac...