In her first state of the union address as president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen called out hatred and pledged to build “a union of equality”. While European institutions have been at the forefront of fighting hate crime and discrimination in and outside of the EU, memberContinue Reading
© Paul Breeze, Author provided Humanity originated on the African continent at least 300,000 years ago. We know from fossil evidence in southern Greece and the Levant (modern-day Israel) that some early members of our species expanded beyond Africa around 200,000 years ago, and again between 120,000 to 90,000 yearsContinue Reading
MS Dhoni will be playing his first competitive match since July 2019.© BCCI/IPL When Mumbai Indians (MI) meet Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in the opening match of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 at Abu Dhabi, the CSK fans, and all the cricketing fraternity, will have their eyes focussed on MS Dhoni,Continue Reading
Bas Nastassia/Shutterstock Since it was unveiled earlier this year, the new AI-based language generating software GPT-3 has attracted much attention for its ability to produce passages of writing that are convincingly human-like. Some have even suggested that the program, created by Elon Musk’s OpenAI, may be considered or appears toContinue Reading
Wikimedia Commons The coronavirus pandemic has been compared with many previous contagions, including the great plague and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. However, there has been little consideration of probably the most significant historical episode of disease. The modern world as we know it would not have existed without theContinue Reading
NASA's Curiosity Rover takes a selfie on Mars in June, 2018. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS, CC BY-SA The Earth’s biosphere contains all the known ingredients necessary for life as we know it. Broadly speaking these are: liquid water, at least one source of energy, and an inventory of biologically useful elements and molecules.Continue Reading
Writing letters allowed the puritan community spread across England, Holland and the US feel a lot smaller continue practices that were important to their worship. Scisetti Alfio/Shutterstock Those who emigrated on the Mayflower in 1620 seeking religious liberty might not have realised the challenges that lay ahead of them. RoaringContinue Reading
Metamorworks/Shutterstock Algorithms have taken a lot of flak recently, particularly those being used by the government and other public bodies in the UK. The controversial algorithm used to award student grades caused a huge public outcry, but national and local governments and several police forces have been withdrawing other algorithmsContinue Reading
CSK and Mumbai Indians have faced each other on 28 occasions.© AFP The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 begins with a high-voltage clash between two of the most successful sides in tournament’s history Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings (CSK). While Rohit Sharma has led Mumbai Indians to a recordContinue Reading
The Indian Premier League (IPL), a franchise Twenty20 cricket tournament in which players from around the world compete in eight different teams, was postponed in March because of coronavirus. After months of uncertainty, it will now take place in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) instead of India, with the firstContinue Reading
