Environment
Don’t call your country “developed”
Implicitly labelling wealthy countries as the role model for development countries is a bad idea for humanity
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Business
Do emerging markets matter?
Globally, of all new bridges opened in the last five years, 50% was built in China. Chinese investment has also funded numerous engineering projects in Europe; from an engineering standpoint, China matters deeply. If your ambition is to design a bridge in the next ten years, work from Shanghai! At
News
Staff consulted over pensions in bid to avoid "undeniable threat to jobs"
Lecturers are once again being consulted about the future of their pensions as universities prepare for a planned increase in employer and employee contributions that is set to come into force later this year. With the 2017 valuation of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) concluded, universities have until 14th March
Opinion
Grumpy Bastard’s Elections
This week, Grumpy Bastard, writes about the student elections...
Business
An insight into consumer goods equities...
CG stocks tend to be low-innovation, mature companies that rely on big brands and timeless products and pay regular dividends. As defensive stocks, CG stocks are more likely to outperform in bear markets than in bull markets. In recent years, CG stocks have widely underperformed in the broader market for
Culture
Come From Away
A triumphant exploration of human kindness.
Games
Smash Corner-Piranha Plant, leader of the Plant Gang
He is Sakurai’s Christmas present to every Smash player, the character no one expected but now everybody loves, we are of course talking about the very first DLC fighter of Ultimate, #70 in the roster, Piranha Plant. First appearing in 1985 in the original Super Mario Bros, he is
Music
Powerful lyricism and unbridled virtuosity
That’s right, Felix Music has gone classical.
Science
From single cells to multicellular organisms: witnessing evolution
Researchers from the George Institute of Technology and University of Montana have witnessed in real-time the development of single-cell algae into more complex multicellular organisms – and, astonishingly, the process took only 50 weeks, or just 750 generations. The only driving environmental factor was predation by another simple, single-celled organism. The
Books
The Ghost Map: dive into the 1854 London cholera outbreak
The setting of this book - a cholera outbreak in Victorian England revolving around cesspools contaminations - is not particularly the most attractive thing in the world, yet it’s fascinating to see the story behind how we came to understand that cholera is water-borne, how it established the base
Games
Smash Corner-Rosalina & Luna, Fighting Stars
This powerful duo first appeared in 2010 as a mysterious character of Super Mario Galaxy on the Wii. They are relatively new to the series, having only appeared once before in the Wii U version of the game. While not being as powerful as her previous iteration, there is still
Travel
Last night I dreamt of Boipeba
The Brazilian biosphere reserve battling for its UNESCO protected status