The face-obscuring wintertime fashion accessory is having a moment, but many argue that jumping on the trend requires having a specific level of privilege. It’s the end of January, and guess what? It’s still freezing outside. Enter, the balaclava – a sock for your head. Designed to slide over your skull...
The country’s parliament has just passed a law to move the national capital from Jakarta to the planned city of Nusantara by 2024. One of the world’s most populated urban regions, Jakarta, is home to more than 10 million people, with an estimated 30 million more in the greater metropolitan...
John Lennon’s son, Julian, will be auctioning off various Beatles memorabilia items as non-fungible tokens, including lyric notes, guitars, and outfits. Consider yourself a Beatles super fan? Are you a crypto connoisseur with a hunger for John Lennon’s old possessions? His son Julian may just have the deal of a...
Once abundant all over the world, the rare cycad plant is now considered a luxury status symbol. As a result, the species is being poached to the brink of extinction. Expensive watches and flashy sportscars are sure fire ways to exhibit your financial success to the world – but how...
Space Entertainment Enterprise, co-producers of Tom Cruise’s forthcoming space-set film, have announced plans to build a fully-fledged production studio 250 miles above Earth. Remember back in 2020, when Tom Cruise teamed up with Elon Musk’s Space X to shoot the first ever feature film in space… no? That’s probably because...
Oil company Exxon has committed to reaching ‘zero emissions’ by 2050, but this does not include any caused by burning its products and only counts in-house ‘operations’. It’s the latest example of big business greenwashing for public favour. Exxon is one of the world’s leading gas and oil companies...
A newly published report has revealed the extent of the nation’s gender health gap, requiring the government to finally acknowledge that sexism is ingrained within the UK’s healthcare systems. While women’s health has undergone a generational culture shift in recent years, prompting more open discourse around historically stigmatised concerns regarding...
I spoke with the 18-year-old next-generation leader about her tireless work to achieve meaningful change in a world where all young people deserve the opportunity to be healthy. Long before Marcus Rashford brought the UK’s child hunger crisis to global attention, with his open letter to Boris Johnson challenging...
Smartphone app Replika is enabling users to find companionship in artificially intelligent chatbots. But what happens when the human emotion of users gets in the way of keeping things casual? It’s getting a little too real in the world of tech right now. The recent and rapid expansion of the metaverse,...
Fans of true crime everywhere are tuning into a new three-part series released on Netflix called 'The Puppet Master'. The show, while focused on a story about fraud, emphasises how important our understanding of mental health truly is. If there’s any TV genre that can band society together in collective...
Meet this little robot created by Mazyar Etehadi (@maz.et) that aims to plant seeds in fertile areas of desert in order to cultivate the land.
@ohhappydani, formerly known as Danielle Coke, is an Illustrator, motivational speaker and activist. She has inspired thousands of people around the world with her elaborate yet digestible illustrations on complex social justice-related issues.
During Christmas of 2021, children in Accra, more specially Achimota Anglican Junior High School, one of the poorest villages in the region were gifted boxes full of Converse from London’s unsold stock.
Precious Plastic has combined people, machines, platforms, and knowledge to create an alternative global recycling system. It has so far recruited over 80,000 people who share the same passion and vision for a world with less plastic waste.
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