Waste pickers in Lagos tell their stories about a dangerous existence: Waste pickers at the Olusosan landfill work in a hazardous environment. Lionel Healing/AFP Lagos, Nigeria’s economic hub, with a population of more than 15 million, generates an estimated 12,000 metric tonnes of waste daily, which comes to about 4.3 million tonnes of waste annually. …
Buy now pay later: how to protect consumers without regulating it out of existence: The BNPL market is booming but users need better protections through balanced financial regulation. Shutterstock Calls to regulate the booming “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) industry have not deterred big brands like Apple and Amazon from the idea of offering consumers …
How food waste helped us discover the existence of a Christian community in 12th century Islamic Iberia: In the 12th century, Cercadilla, a neighbourhood outside Cordoba in southern Spain, was under Islamic control. At this time populations of Muslim, Christian and Jewish communities lived together in a region known as al-Andalus. There are two presiding …
Disney Pixar’s Soul: how the moviemakers took Plato’s view of existence and added a modern twist: Ideas about the soul have been powerful throughout the history of religion and philosophy. Until the 19th-century, most people took the existence of souls for granted. With the rise of modern psychology, this belief lost its plausibility, and today …
Four centuries of trying to prove God’s existence: Shutterstock Whether God exists or not is one of the most important philosophical questions there is. And the tradition of trying to establish God’s existence involving evidence is a long one, with a golden age during the 17th and 18th centuries – the early modern period. Attempts …
Piers Morgan and Brian Cox debate the existence of God: a philosopher’s take: Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel Piers Morgan started a Twitter debate about God. “Atheists can never say what was there before the Big Bang” starts a recent tweet posted by the journalist-turned-television presenter. Morgan then moves to the existence of a higher power. A …
South Africa in the news: Freedom vital for human existence: Dennis was born in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, but moved with his coloured parents to South Africa in his childhood. He was educated at Fort Hare and he University of Witwatersrand. His protest against the apartheid government led him to face arrest …: “South Africa” …
Millions of Brits now happy to live a solitary existence: Nine in 10 UK adults are content to be in their own company – with 59 per cent “comfortable” with living alone. Half would be happy to buy a house just for themselves and four in 10 have no qualms holidaying abroad solo. : Weird …
Motorola brought us the mobile phone, but ended up merged out of existence: Even inventive companies have their day. OptoScalpel If you own a mobile phone, chances are that it isn’t made by Motorola. But it was not always this way: Motorola was once the brand most associated with the mobile phone, and the firm …