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Sustainability standards & the semiconductor industry
With the rapid advancement of modern technology, the Semiconductor industry is a key player in supplying essential parts that power everyday devices. The companies in this industry, including Intel, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, and NVIDIA, design and manufacture components found in smartphones, computers, and generative AI computing equipment – the increased demand of which has propelled some of the companies to become the most valued in the market this year.
The state of lithium-ion battery development
In December 2021, Elon Musk made the strategic decision to relocate the headquarters of Tesla, a leading electric automotive company, to Austin, Texas. This move was particularly interesting, not only for its business implications but also for the tension it created between the company’s clean energy focus and Texas’ historical reliance on the oil and natural gas economy.
The unique environment of international mining law
Before humans discovered fire, we were racing for resources. In fact, we used resources to control fire itself, extracting materials such as flint, obsidian, and ochre as early as 82,000 years ago in Morocco, evidenced by Nassarius shells.
The rights of third parties in the arbitration process
The rise of globalization has brought about significant changes in the relationship between businesses, consumers, and legal systems worldwide. As legal entities, business organizations, and other institutions become more influential on an international scale, they must navigate a complex landscape of differing regulatory frameworks and laws.
The coexistence of legal systems around the world
The 8 billion inhabitants of our planet are governed by distinct, historically interrelated systems of law. These systems, unique in their own respects, establish rules, present choices, and shape our collective understanding of political, economic, and cultural realities.
Environmental violations in the Lone Star State
Texas, the second-largest state in the U.S., has experienced rapid population growth in recent years, furthering its position as a global energy hub to sustain cities. With energy production playing a significant role in public health and environmental concerns, a key question emerges: how have trends in environmental violations and its responsible entities shifted over the past decade?
Students, faculty reflect on DEI ban after a semester of enforcements
When Thaily Rangel received a text message from her coworker about her job being dissolved, she thought it was a late April Fools joke. “I had a hard time processing it because I didn’t get reached out by any of my bosses or the school officially,” Rangel said, referring to the April 2 message.
A study of Olympic Forest, WA
Madison Falls glowed with an iridescent blend of two transparencies: light and water. It stood on the edge of an old-growth forest characterized by 200-year-old trees, with the upper river originating in Mount Olympus.
Flying men of Mexico City
Streets named after assassinated Aztec emperors inspire a sense of doom for a once-collapsed society, and the exposed electrical wires hanging from the buildings seem to agree.
A report on student housing affordability
Austin Community College’s Student Government Association, leaders to 12 campuses in a city striken by homelessness - disucss the anticipated meeting with Chancellor Richard Rhodes to present their Housing Affordability Proposal.
Mourning Flora
Earlier this semester, Austinites celebrated the life, and mourned the removal, of Flo- a tree that once dangled over Barton Springs Pool. The Daily Texan spoke with community members to learn more. Produced by Lucia Llano.
The future of fashion is trash
Students at the University of Texas at Austin sift through mounds of clothing items previously left in trash bags. The Campus Environmental Center encourages others to reuse and thrift new clothes at their Trash2Treasure event. Produced by Angelica Ruzanova.
Cheap philosophy, rubber shoes in Buenos Aires
Charly García’s “Filosofía Barata y Zapatos de Goma” captured my image of the city: impulsive, sporadic and spellbinding, like a muse of its own heartbreak.
Nuevo Leon thermals
Being at the hands of the wind makes you realize how much power it has over you. There is as much underneath me as there is above, and we follow birds to find thermals that will only increase the distance between the earth and our bodies.
A father’s flan recipe
It started at a tailgate; two friends, buzzed under the Texan heat dome, and a conversation about starting a business together. It would take almost a decade for the aromas of their Napoletano flan and pork-fat tortillas to imbue local markets with the familiar-to-many scent of home cooked food, their business realized.
Film: a month in London
I remember the trip starting something like this: The Smiths blasting through my headphone speakers, looking past the window panes in an Austin bus, fall of 2021.
The Putumayo way
A kaleidoscope of beads lights Juan Riaño’s table. He lays out his handcrafts one by one: the tricolor macaw birds, the threaded bracelets and chest laces, the traditional wooden masks.
Pomegranate, fig, and almond trees
My Uzbek roots gravitate to land. The living clay, the quilted kurpacha, the plowed soil. The love for earth disciplined and arranged my people’s way of life. It took and it gave, nourished and destroyed.
Outside our time
“The hallmark of the modern mind is that it loves to wander from its subject.” This fatal flaw of “wandering,” the human desire to play hide and seek with our own ideas, is not one of fiction.
Hell of a play
French chanson plays inside a Presbyterian church as the guests take their time to fill up one of the rooms. They are here to see Austin City Theatre’s production of “No Exit” by Jean-Paul Sartre, an existential play first performed in 1944 Paris and originally translated by Paul Bowles.