What Will The World Be Like After Coronavirus? Four Possible Futures
Where will we be in six months, a year, ten years from now? I lie awake at night wondering what the future holds for my loved ones. My vulnerable friends…
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Has The World Gone Far Enough In Women’s Rights?
A 2020 survey conducted by Ipsos reveals that for a lot of countries around the world, people think there is still a lot of progress needed to make gender equality…
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Single Mothers Worldwide Are Struggling To Put Food On Their Tables
Globally, single women are more likely to struggle having enough money to buy food, data from the recent Gallup World Poll reveals. Highlights Forty-four percent of the single mothers…
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Coronavirus: Three Ways The Crisis May Permanently Change Our Lives
The realisation that life is going to change for a good while is starting to take hold. To flatten the curve of the COVID-19 outbreak, radical measures of social distancing…
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The Flu Pandemic Of 1918: Modern Parallels From A Century-Old Pandemic
The influenza pandemic of 1918 (also known as the Spanish flu, even though it didn’t originate in Spain) is among the most severe pandemics in recent history, only second to…
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How Does The Coronavirus Affect Different Age Groups?
Young people are more likely to be carriers of COVID-19 than they think, this is what is revealed by the analysis of Andreas Backhaus, a researcher and economist. His findings…
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The 4 Plausible Futures Of The World: Humans Inc.
Depending on the state of the planet and society, the world will reach one of four possible, highly contrasting outcomes by the year 2050. This is the central idea of …
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The 4 Plausible Futures Of The World: Extinction Express
Arup’s recently published white paper, 2050 Scenarios: four plausible futures, discussed how certain choices of humanity at present can lead to one of the four scenarios they have identified. So…
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COVID-19 Treatment Might Already Exist In Old Drugs – We’re Using Pieces Of The Coronavirus Itself To Find Them
Why don’t we have drugs to treat COVID-19 and how long will it take to develop them? SARS-CoV-2 – the coronavirus that causes the disease COVID-19 – is completely new…
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Coronavirus: A Pandemic In The Age Of Inequality
Osmel Martinez Azcue felt unwell. Having recently returned home to Florida from China and experiencing flu-like symptoms, he went to his local hospital to get tested for coronavirus. While the…
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