Month: September 2021
Portable CO2 meters to help fight Covid-19
The level of CO2 in a space can be used as proxy for the possible risk of exposure to coronavirus. People infected with coronavirus can spread it around a room in tiny airborne droplets called “aerosols” when they breathe out, speak, shout or sing. These aerosols build up indoors, especially when a place is crowded
Curbing Covid-19 Misinformation on Reddit
Reddit has banned a discussion forum that spreads misinformation about coronavirus and vaccines after a user rebellion over the site’s failure to tackle Covid-19 sceptics. Reddit initially refused to ban subreddits identified as spreading misinformation. But it bowed to pressure, announcing that it had kicked out r/NoNewNormal – which has 124,000 subscribers and contains posts
Farming in Poor Countries
Most people in poorer countries are not factory farming. The cows, pigs, goats, sheep, chickens or camels that many families keep are often their most valuable economic and dietary assets. They serve as a hedge against the impacts of the climate crisis on their farms. They help ensure children don’t grow up malnourished. Among young
Starvation in DRC
a country with eight months of rain, more than 50% of all the rivers, lakes and wetlands in Africa, and more agricultural land than any African country, with the potential to feed up to 2 billion people, gets to the point where it is unable to feed its population of 100 million. How ?DRC is
Apple’s App Store policies ruling
Epic is fighting for fair competition among in-app payment methods and app stores, for a billion consumers and A similar court case between Epic and Google, which runs the equivalent Android app store, continues. The court also ruled against Epic on nine out of 10 issues and ordered it to pay millions of dollars in
Tech Giants Hinders Terrorism Fight
Tech firms already possess the technology they need to detect paedophiles and terrorists, simply by tracking their behaviour they don’t need to compromise a user’s privacy by looking at all their personal files on their phone. Apple’s technology was widely criticised by privacy groups and the cyber-security industry as setting a dangerous precedent, because it
China plans to break up Alipay
Ant could also be forced to hand over the user data that underpins its loans decisions to a new credit scoring firm, which would be partly state-owned. Shares in Chinese technology giant Alibaba have fallen sharply after a report that its financial affiliate Ant Group is again under scrutiny, now Regulators want to break up
Gaslighting
Gaslighting is a common and very misunderstood form of manipulation and a form of control where the victim begins to question reality. For example, your parents might insist some trauma in your childhood never happened. Gaslighting will cause some of the biggest fights you’ll ever have in a relationship. It comes from the 1938 play,
Not Lazy or Undisciplined.
Internal resistance is an attempt to avoid the pain we associate with successfully doing the thing. Internal resistance is not lazy it’s energetic as hell! It takes a lot of work to push back on our desire to move toward our goal, day after day. And if we try to use discipline to increase our
Investing in Physical Assets
Inflation often coincides with rises in the prices of these assets. An economic expansion tends to fuel consumer-price growth as well as demand for floor space and transport or energy infrastructure. Inflation is typically bad news for mainstream assets such as stocks and bonds, because it reduces the present value of future earnings and coupons.