Busy Fools
In a world seemingly growing ever more short-sighted and impatient, people don’t have the patience to understand and fix problems, instead buying into symptom treatments or what feels like the right thing to do without really understanding the long term effects...
What is Antifragility?
Life would not exist if it were not able to adapt or improve. Most people consider resilience and strength to be valuable features. But these traits do not benefit from experience any more than something fragile which dies or fails completely. So strength, resilience...
Fix politics to fix the world
There are certain problems that we, humans, seem incapable of dealing with and some age-old arguments that remain. Determining all factors at play in a situation is key to truly understanding what is happening, scientists know this. Whilst we may all have...
How Blockchain Can be Used to Fight Workplace Harassment
Sexual harassment is a problem that haunts many workplaces. This pervasive issue is especially difficult to combat because many employees are scared to report any perpetrators whose negative backlash could hurt their career. In fact, the...
How Blockchain is Empowering Farmers
During monsoon season in Indonesia, farms can get destroyed, leaving small farmers with zero income. Without an income, they can’t buy the seeds and fertiliser necessary to get back on their feet. Getting a loan often isn’t an option as the documents can take months,...
How Virtual Reality is Transforming Medicine for the Better
While virtual reality is high-tech these days, it wasn’t always so advanced. Headsets used to cost around £58,000 and weigh so much a brick was necessary for counterbalance. Fast forward to present times, and most headsets cost less than £155 and weigh around a pound....
Viable Alternative Energy Solutions
CO2-sucking factories are beginning to pop up around the world. These plants capture CO2 in the air to be used for different purposes, such as in greenhouses. Because the high level of CO2 in the atmosphere is a uniformly global occurrence, these plants can appear...
How Artificial Intelligence is Improving Wildlife Research
In the past thirty years, the number of reticulated giraffes in Kenya has decreased by 70 percent. Throughout Africa, the population is down 40 percent in the same amount of time, knocking the population down to fewer than 100,000. Currently, biologists and wildlife...
The Elephant in the Room
In the UK, we often talk of over stretched health systems, lack of housing, busy road networks, global warming and other environmental and resource dependency concerns. Yet we fail to acknowledge the major common factor driving most of these issues. These types of...
Building the World Through Blockchain
If you’ve spent any time watching the hit Netflix show Black Mirror, you may feel that technology is irreversibly changing the world, for the worse. Technology is simply a tool. We should not look to blame our tools but take responsibility for making better use of...