Frank Drake has passed away but his equation for alien intelligence is more important than ever: The spiral galaxy M74 imaged by the NASA/ESA JWST. ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-JWST Team., CC BY-NC-ND How many intelligent civilisations should there be in our galaxy right now? In 1961, the US astrophysicist Frank …
Is there a happiness equation? Here’s how we’re trying to find out: What if your happy is different from my happy? Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock Most people would like to be happier. But it isn’t always easy to know how to achieve that goal. Is there an equation for happiness? Many formulas have been suggested. Get …
South Africa in the news: Policy conference: DA leaves race out of redress equation: We believe race is a proxy for disadvantage and an accurate reflection of who is still excluded from opportunity The party has not decided to m …: “South Africa” – BingNews Eskom downgrades loadshedding to Stage 1 for the rest of …
How Universal Credit perpetuates the false equation between public and private debt: What the 'credit' in Universal Credit actually means. Fure/Shutterstock The full roll out of Universal Credit, the government’s plan to collapse six welfare benefits into one, was delayed in early January. This followed mounting concerns by MPs and months of trenchant criticism of …