For those of us who insist on seeing the glass half full, even when the miserable brigade point out that it’s also half empty, COVID-19 poses particular challenges. In regular times, our relentless...
Author - Stephen Barrett
Is Freelancing the Future of Employment?
Today, freelancers represent 35% of the United States workforce. In the European Union, the rate is 16.1%. Both figures demonstrate the same global trend: from creative entrepreneurs to...
What it’s Like to Lose a Presidential Election?
The American public may have only recently found out who won the presidential election last month. But now they know that Republican Donald Trump hasn’t been elected to a second term and that...
NASA’s Plan to Build a Base Camp on the Moon Sounds Like Sci-Fi...
If we’re ever going to make Elon Musk’s vision of colonizing Mars a reality, we first need to figure out an essential component of the plan: how to get there. After all, it’s somewhere between 34 and...
History of the Two-Day Weekend Offers Lessons for Today’s...
The idea of reducing the working week from an average of five days to four is gaining traction around the world. Businesses and politicians have been considering a switch to fewer, but...
Airships Are No Longer a Relic of the Past; You Could Ride in...
As concern over climate change and rising temperatures grows, the airline industry is taking heat (pun intended). Flying accounts for 2.5 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions; that’s lower than...
This Startup Is Growing Sushi-Grade Salmon From Cells in a Lab
As the ills of factory farming become more pronounced, people are increasingly gravitating towards vegetarian or pescatarian diets. Besides producing a large percentage of our total greenhouse...
Prioritising Home Ownership Hurts Everyone – Owners as Well as...
The quest to own a home has become a mainstay in UK society. Successive governments of all stripes have prioritised home ownership over other forms of tenure. In August 2020, following Boris...
The Dangerous Consequences of Believing the World is...
According to the UN, the global population currently stands at 7.7 billion and is predicted to rise to around 9 billion by 2050 with it likely peaking at around 11.2 billion in 2100, some 80 years...
The Lust for Libya: Big Powers Fight Over the Spoils of War
The first major war of the new scramble for Africa is being fought in Libya as big powers fight over the spoils of war. Ever since NATO intervened to help depose Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in Oct...
Brazil’s President Bolsonaro Tests Positive for Coronavirus
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...
NASA Unveils Its Multi-Million Dollar Next Generation Spacesuit.
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...
How Farmers in Zanzibar Are Pioneering The Farming of Sea...
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...
Is There Anybody Out There? The Search for ET
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...
The Battle For Strategic Supremacy In The Arctic War Heats Up
Many commentators were surprised by Donald Trump’s recent announcement ordering the construction of a fleet of icebreakers and two new military bases designed to strengthen US interests in the...
The Pentagon Is Giving Up on Particle Beam Weapons, For Now.
Humanosity says…It looks like all us sci-fi fans are going to have to wait a little bit longer before we see particle beam weapons in action like Star Wars! On a serious note, it also shows how...
The Three Driving Factors Behind Brexit. The Threat to Our...
Humanosity says…Following on from the revelations about how Brexit is being funded by people scared of the 2020 EU Tax Avoidance Directive and the dark money that has been funding Brexit, this...
The Vote Leave Backers who Made Millions from Brexit Part 1
Humanosity says…The Byline Times has been producing some excellent reporting on who has been funding the Brexit campaign. They have revealed how a small group of already wealthy individuals...
Leaked Documents Show Boris Johnson’s Secret Plan To...
Humanosity says….it’s no surprise to find out that Boris Johnson’s key adviser Dominic Cummings is at the heart of plans to use data from the government’s online services...
The Inside Story of The Macedonian Fake News Industry.
Humanosity says…The Fake News Industry is big business, really big business. Facebook’s reluctance to get involved in policing or fact-checking the veracity of ‘news’ content...