Mainstream scientists, doctors, parents speak out about harms of Covid-19 vaccines. Just one day after she got a Covid-19 booster shot, Regan Lewis, a 20-year-old nursing student at Colby Community College in Colby, Kansas, had a heart attack. Her mom, Connie Werth Lewis, desperately asked for prayers for her daughter in a public post on Facebook. “I […]
Facebook may not be the original social media platform, but it has stood the test of time – until recently. Meta, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, saw its value plummet by around $80bn (£69bn) in just one day at the end of October, after its third-quarter profits halved amid the global slowdown. Meta is now valued […]
Originally published 16 March 2021. Being a child in the 1960s was Utterly Brilliant. It was all so exciting – because we all knew we were going to space. The theme music from “Apollo” still resonates. Late at night peering at the Moon, and my father waking me up to watch the landing. My bedroom […]
Valuable eyewitness accounts and raw data on human behavior, as well as a habitat for trolls What do a cybersecurity researcher building a system to generate alerts for detecting security threats and vulnerabilities, a wildfire watcher who tracks the spread of forest fires and public health professionals trying to predict enrollment in health insurance exchanges have […]
But how can we help them make good on their ambitions? Young and old people have different opinions and tastes on everything from fashion to politics. That might sound truistic, but it really matters if we’re trying to work out what the future might look like when today’s 20-somethings are running our major institutions. This is […]
It’s a glorious afternoon at a luxury resort in Egypt, with six swimming pools leading to a lovely little stretch of beach on the Red Sea. A salsa aquatic class in one of the pools has several enthusiastic participants. Elsewhere, guests are lounging on deck chairs sipping ice cold cocktails. Cheerful waiters are refilling glasses […]
So…It has finally happened. A mere decade later than initially expected, the real estate industry is coming to terms with the inevitable end of quantitative easing, ie, ‘normal’ rather than artificially suppressed interest rates. While we all enjoy a central bank-fuelled asset bubble, unfortunately the party must end at some stage and the real question […]
Frog morphology crops up a lot in our descriptions of nature. Babington’s orache (please read on) has frog’s head seeds, toadflax flowers are said to resemble the gape of a toad. In our ditches the clear water supports a delicate white flower called frogbit, home to, among several insects, the chinamark moth. What is it […]
Originally published October 2022. But this writer believes there’s plenty of hope for landlords. The sector had a tawdry H1 with significant underperformance against the All Share Index for all the obvious reasons. As interest rates have risen sharply, the major concern has been that borrowing costs for the sector are now higher than the initial […]
Originally published October 2022. Success depends on recognising a good thing. Do you indulge in magical thinking? You probably don’t want to think so, but many people believe they can influence outcomes that are randomly determined. Consider games of chance. Ever rolled some dice gently because you wanted a low number? If you play the […]
