Month: December 2021
fans spending millions on club crypto-tokens
Football clubs have potentially made hundreds of millions of pounds selling controversial crypto “fan tokens”. Some of the tokens are marketed as offering real-world perks to the buyer. Across the five major European leagues 24 different clubs have launched or are considering fan tokens, including eight Premier League sides. Most offer tokens akin to a
Canadian man Accused of Ransomware Attacks
A Canadian man has been accused of co-ordinating ransomware and other cyber-attacks on individuals, businesses and government agencies. He was arrested on 30 November and remains in police custody awaiting a court date. Another Canadian man was charged in January for allegedly carrying out ransomware attacks linked to the Netwalker gang. This is the second
Decline in Japanese Population
n’s population continues to fall the economic, social and cultural consequences could be devastating to the country, Japan looks to lose everything with such a high rate of population decline. Population ageing increases healthcare expenditure, raising taxes and increasing pressure on the population, Japan already had an oppressive work culture and as well as birth
Greta Thunberg on COP26
COP26 stands for Conference of the Parties and is the 26th meeting of the United Nations Climate Change conference and is currently taking place in Glasgow. Despite the conference being seen as a chance to tighten and consolidate national pledges to deal with global climate change as outlined in the Paris Agreement adopted in 2015,
Second Boer War
discovery of huge reserves of natural resources in the Boer states, but was part of a wider struggle for independence by the Dutch speaking colonial inhabitants of South Africa in the late nineteenth/early twentieth century. However the Second Boer War was particularly influential in South Africa and sent shockwaves far and wide, having effects internationally
The Great Irish Famine
Ireland suffered under a devastating famine from 1845-9 in which millions died and fled the country, causing a drop in Irish population by a quarter, and causing long-lasting negative socio-economic and demographic effects on the country. At the time the economic theories of English Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus were politically popular and generally accepted to
endocrine disruptors
In 1996 an early key scientific paper that originally raised concerns over endocrine disruptors was retracted after the author was found to have misconducted the research. Subsequent studies have demonstrated that some microplastics do act as endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs), physiologically or chemically mimicking naturally occurring human hormones, for examples taking on roles of sex
Private Wars Destabilizing Developing Nations.
LikeElon Musk’s mask slip moment when he commented on the Bolivian coup, he could, quite realistically, hire NGO’s, mercenaries and hackers and he would have the capacity to set foreign policy, bypass democracy, and even remove politicians in the style of Jovenel Moise. Elon Musk is currently in line with the US government but what
Effects of Intellectual Property Right on World Pandemics
The WTO’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) is and was bad for developing countries, but this is especially clear in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Patents have long helped maintain high drug costs for public health programs across Africa, and despite generating controversy there has been no substantial revisions of TRIPS.
Molnupiravir Help to End World Covid-19 pandemic
Molnupiravir may be useful together with the vaccine, but preliminary studies have shown that this new antiviral drug reduces the risk of hospitalisation & death by 48%, still lower than nearly all vaccines available for COVID [1]. While vaccine efficacy has been found to be mostly lower than initial data demonstrated, most are still considered