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Non-renewable Resources

Africa: Tourism to Tackle Plastic Pollution With New Commitment

Every year, billions of people go on holiday to escape from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. Eight out of ten tourists travel to coastal areas, hoping to relax under blue skies, clear waters and white sandy beaches. Increasingly, however they risk fin…

bubmagJanuary 29, 2020

Feudalism

Ericsson’s New Look: Plenty of Robots, Not Many Jobs

Bullshit Jobs, a 2018 book by American anthropologist David Graeber, posits that automation has already ended the prospect of meaningful work for most people. Unemployment has not soared, writes Graeber, because most of us are retained for pointless activities (the bullshit jobs that give the book its title) under a…

bubmagJanuary 29, 2020

Mass Tourism

Instagram is ‘killing’ Hallstatt, Let it go!

Instagram has a tendencyto makeplaces ‘trend’. This makes global locations become inundated with tourists. Sometimes it’s cool, but sometimes this is to the detriment to the local community. Let’s look at what’s going on at Hallstatt as an example. Hallstatt…

bubmagJanuary 29, 2020

Antibiotics

Draining the swamp

From Jason Crawford, Emergent Ventures winner in Progress Studies: …the surprising thing I found is that infectious disease mortality rates have been declining steadily since long before vaccines or antibiotics… In 1900, the most deaths came from tuberculosis, influenza/pneumonia, and gastroenteric diseases such as dysentery. All of these were effectively conquered…

bubmagJanuary 29, 2020

eSports

Pac Man your bags: Atari is launching a video game-themed hotel

What: Atari-themed hotels Why We Care: Atari-themed hotels are coming soon to eight cities near you. Yes, the gaming giant best known for its ’70s and ’80s video games, money woes, and those ET games they buried in the desert over 30 years ago is on the come…

bubmagJanuary 29, 2020

Beyond Meat

KFC’s Beyond Meat chicken is a damn miracle

In a hip hotel in Chicago’s West Loop, nestled among more Michelin-starred restaurants than I can count, KFC has presented me with a carefully plated presentation of chubby chicken chunks on a rectangular white plate. The first is your standard, plain tan. Th…

bubmagJanuary 29, 2020

Plastic Pollution

Researchers to conduct major Japan ocean microplastics survey

Tokyo (AFP) - Scientists will begin a two-year survey of microplastics in the coastal waters off Japan from April, a research group announced on Wednesday, with concern growing about the impact of plastics on the oceans.The survey organised by Japanese scientists and the Tara Ocean Foundation will be conducted by…

bubmagJanuary 29, 2020

UK Border

Customs gets gas analysers from UK Border Force

THE Jamaica Customs Agency (JCA) has received a donation of six gas analysers from the United Kingdom (UK) Border Force, which will be used by customs officers to test the air quality inside containers. The devices, valued at £9,000, were handed over to the …

bubmagJanuary 29, 2020

Brexit

After Brexit, New Identity Crises Await the U.K.

One evening last week, I found myself dining in the House of Lords just as the “European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill”—the law that will finalize Brexit—was wending its way through the final stages of the British legislative process. When I arrived, the …

bubmagJanuary 29, 2020

Be Evil

Why you should probably avoid Google’s RCS Text messaging chat feature

The text messaging systems that people use on their phones today have been pretty awful for a while. They started as SMS which was a hack to sneak text-based data into the signaling connections of cell phones in the 90’s. Multimedia Messaging System was added…

bubmagJanuary 29, 2020

Africa: Tourism to Tackle Plastic Pollution With New Commitment

Ericsson’s New Look: Plenty of Robots, Not Many Jobs

Instagram is ‘killing’ Hallstatt, Let it go!

Draining the swamp

Pac Man your bags: Atari is launching a video game-themed hotel

KFC’s Beyond Meat chicken is a damn miracle

Researchers to conduct major Japan ocean microplastics survey

Customs gets gas analysers from UK Border Force

After Brexit, New Identity Crises Await the U.K.

Why you should probably avoid Google’s RCS Text messaging chat feature

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