As the coronavirus continues it’s inexorable spread around the world, South America is becoming one of the worst affected areas and Brazil has the second-worst coronavirus outbreak in the...
Politics
Brazil’s President Bolsonaro Tests Positive for Coronavirus
From Probation to Regulation: The Economics of Cannabis...
Governments are now moving from probation to cannabis legalisation, as a way to tackle the increase in consumption and take away benefits from it.
Sub-Saharan Africa has a Huge Drug Problem and it Will Get Worse
When it comes to drugs, the focus has largely been on developing regions as sites of production or transportation, rather than consumption. The reality is however, far more shocking. Sub-Saharan...
Environment
Farming the Final Frontier: The Race To Grow Plants in Space
Hollywood isn’t always known for its scientific accuracy, especially when it comes to movies about space. However, with NASA setting its sights on returning to the moon, sometimes a movie can...
The Strange Creatures That Are Boosting Local Farmers in Zanzibar
It’s worth remembering that farming of anything is not exactly natural. It’s how we’ve managed to organise our food production and produce it in volumes and formats that work with the way we...
Global Warming: Could it Lead to a Wine Shortage?
It is no surprise that the world is facing many negative consequences from climate change. The damaging effects will impact all of our daily lives, from severe rising ocean levels to habitat loss...
Culture
From Probation to Regulation: The Economics of Cannabis...
Governments are now moving from probation to cannabis legalisation, as a way to tackle the increase in consumption and take away benefits from it.
Architecture, Politics and Society: Timothy Hyde Explores their...
Buildings are essentially social and cultural products, and are influenced by the ideas, values, beliefs, activities, relationships and forms of the social organizations that they sustain.
Global Warming: Could it Lead to a Wine Shortage?
It is no surprise that the world is facing many negative consequences from climate change. The damaging effects will impact all of our daily lives, from severe rising ocean levels to habitat loss...
Science
NASA Unveils Its Multi Million Dollar Next Generation Space Suit.
The futuristic flight suits worn by Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken during Saturday’s successful launch look a world away from the bulky orange shuttle flight suits worn when astronauts last...
Farming the Final Frontier: The Race To Grow Plants in Space
Hollywood isn’t always known for its scientific accuracy, especially when it comes to movies about space. However, with NASA setting its sights on returning to the moon, sometimes a movie can...
Is There Anybody Out There?
For countless centuries people have looked up at the night sky and wondered. Some wondered about their gods, some tried to make sense of the patterns they saw and a few wondered if there were worlds...