As thoughts were going to be about the tactics of improvement to student comprehension, until recent repeat of usa "gunboat diplomacy" promoted recurrent thought of the exploitation of knowledge for personal gains, of course with complicit co-operation of scientists that possess the intellect to comprehend such knowledge.
It has been relatively easy for "learned societies" to condemn Russia: not so for violence in west Asia (e.g. destruction in Gaza or assassinations/oppression of scientists, so will "western" scientists/engineers quietly participate in the covetous interest in Venezuela's natural resources?
It would be no surprise to see further incursion of Palestine (natural gas reserves?), Ukraine, Taiwan, Congo, etc. by those with the military power to do so. Another example of "(un-)intended consequences.
The imminent discussion of nuclear magnetic resonance has occasionally in the past, diversified into nuclear (energy) chemistry, which is another reminder of the politics involved. It is a difficult topic to teach, pedagogically, without further consideration of philosophical debate about the morality of scientific knowledge. Too many economies of the world prefer to employ chemists to make 'Big Pharma' chronic disease drugs, or 'Big Oil' non-sustainable primary energy sources. In an era of 'Big (student) Debt' insufficient/unstable employment, what are the next generation supposed to do?
Extent review of rss feeds more often than not, reveals a decline in accessibility of the format:
Error while retrieving https://www.raeng.org.uk/rss-feeds/news-releases: HTTP response code said error 404 Error while retrieving http://www.edie.net/news/rss6.xml: HTTP response code said error 403 Error while retrieving https://natmatsci.ac.uk/feed/: unsupported feed format Error while retrieving http://blog.rsb.org.uk/feed/: Couldn't resolve host name Error while retrieving https://en.unesco.org/rss.xml: Couldn't connect to serverThey may be change in sentiment. Have recently noticed renewed interest to promote rss, exemplified by a nice blogpost in aforementioned service, courtesy of 'Harold'(source: in toxic woolly mammoth. Hopefully more people will become aware of the impact of extant amgaf-style internet infrastructure upon accessibility.
