Andrew Sabisky, a UK government adviser, recently resigned over comments supporting eugenics. Around the same time, the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins – best known for his book The Selfish...
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Inching Towards Abundant Water: New Progress in Desalination Tech
In early 2018, Cape Town, South Africa came dangerously close to being the world’s first major city to run out of water. People lined up for blocks to collect spring water. Stores sold out of...
Only the Richest Ancient Athenians Paid Taxes – and they Bragged...
In ancient Athens, only the very wealthiest people paid direct taxes, and these went to fund the city-state’s most important national expenses – the navy and honours for the gods. While today it...
The Urban Poor have been Hit Hard by Coronavirus. We Must Ask...
The enormous death toll in New York City, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak in the US, led New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, to write that “there is a density level in NYC that is...
If a Robot Is Conscious, Is It OK to Turn It Off? The Moral...
In the “Star Trek: The Next Generation” episode “The Measure of a Man,” Data, an android crew member of the Enterprise, is to be dismantled for research purposes unless Captain...
AI Will Create Millions More Jobs Than It Will Destroy. Here’s...
In the past few years, artificial intelligence has advanced so quickly that it now seems hardly a month goes by without a newsworthy AI breakthrough. In areas as wide-ranging as speech...
The Scariest Things in the Universe are Black Holes and here are...
Each year Halloween is a time to be haunted by ghosts, goblins and ghouls, but nothing in the universe is scarier than a black hole. Black holes – regions in space where gravity is so strong that...
Right-Wing Extremism: The New Wave of Global Terrorism
In April 2020, the United Nation’s Secretary-General, António Guterres, addressed members of the Security Council by warning them that the COVID-19 pandemic could threaten global peace and security...
Tweets Reveal Trump’s and Biden’s Competing Views of Masculinity...
Shortly after news networks called the presidential race in favour of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, posted the following tweet: Screen Shot, Twitter. More than a...
What Lies Behind the War in Tigray?
At the core of the current war between the Ethiopian central government and the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front is the realignment of politics and the contest for political hegemony. In my view...
Evidence Shows China’s Huge Ghost Fleet Were Illegally...
A ghost fleet of Chinese-owned fishing vessels crowded along the edge of Ecuador’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) near the Galápagos Islands between June and September, prompting international concern...
Scientists Just Proved These Two Brain Networks Are Key to...
Consciousness is one of the greatest mysteries of the human species. Where and how does it originate? Why do we have it? Is it even real, or just an illusion? These questions aren’t just hard to...
Is Belief in God a Delusion?
As the pandemic raged in April, churchgoers in Ohio defied warnings not to congregate. Some argued that their religion conferred them immunity from COVID-19. In one memorable CNN clip, a woman...
Solar Power Stations in Space Could be the Answer to Our Energy...
It sounds like science fiction: giant solar power stations floating in space that beam down enormous amounts of energy to Earth. And for a long time, the concept – first developed by the Russian...
How Much do Our Genes Restrict Free Will?
Social media algorithms, artificial intelligence, and our own genetics are among the factors influencing us beyond our awareness. This raises an ancient question: do we have control over our own...
Novichok: The Deadly Story Behind the Nerve Agent
Against the backdrop of Salisbury’s beautiful cathedral, a new word recently gained global notoriety. But the three people who had the right to know most about Novichok, a nerve agent, were...
Peru ‘Coup’: Public Fury Forces Resignation of Interim President...
Peru is in deep crisis. The week-long regime of interim president Manuel Merino has been brought crashing down in the face of mass protests by tens of thousands of angry protesters. Three...
Saint or Sinner: Rawlings was Pivotal to Ghana’s Political and...
Twenty years after he left political office, probably nothing divides Ghanaians more than their opinions regarding Flight-Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings who has died. His lingering political...
The Foreign Policy Legacy that Donald Trump Leaves Joe Biden
Donald Trump promised the American people that he would “Make America Great Again” by pursuing an America First foreign policy as president. The pledge, made on his inauguration day, stemmed...
When Did Humans First Go To War?
When modern humans arrived in Europe around 40,000 years ago, they made a discovery that was to change the course of history. The continent was already populated by our evolutionary cousins, the...