This week, world leaders condemned Israel for ‘drip feeding’ aid into Gaza, while humanitarian groups warned that widespread man-made famine – caused by the ongoing Israeli blockade – has reached critical levels. At least 115 people have already died due to famine and malnutrition, with impacted doctors and aid...
The prosecution of e-bike riders for speeding is symptomatic of a wider problem of wealth inequality and a lack of worker’s rights. If you’ve been anywhere near a city in the last decade, undoubtedly you’ll have seen them. In Newcastle they’re often locked up or propped up on their...
The company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that it will be investing hundreds of billions on AI centres that will cover an area almost as large as Manhattan. Mark Zuckerberg has announced that Meta will be splashing out the cash and investing heavily in AI data centres across the...
Have Uber overlooked the safety of customers and drivers in order to make more money from earnings they’re already cutting by half? Chances are, if you work late, go out late, or, like me, have a tendency to be late, you’ve probably used Uber at some point or another. Launched in...
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Hello and welcome back to another newsletter from the common thred! 
With the world hyper-focused on football transfer news, the Coldplay concert cheating scandal, and other genuinely grim world developments, I thought it might be nice to use this edition to focus on exciting...
New research by ResumeGenius indicates that up to 1 in 4 students regret going to college or wish they had prioritised more stable and lucrative fields of work. The clock might be ticking for universities, at least according to a new survey conducted by ResumeGenius. 1,000 full-time Gen Z workers...
Africa's creative wave is the strongest it's ever been, and the world is paying attention. As the pandemic ended, a global appetite for rawness and newness emerged, and Africa's artistic expressions are breaking away from the tired stereotypes to tell a different story, from the nightclubs of Lagos to the...
Teens are turning to chatbots for comfort. It might sound dystopian, but in our increasingly isolated world it makes a lot of sense. It starts innocently enough. A 15-year-old girl downloads an AI chatbot app like Replika or Character.AI, just to see what all the TikTok buzz is about. Maybe...
Whether it’s doing something relatively mundane like boarding a flight, or delving into the existential dread of getting older, my life is a constant battle to not let anxiety win. Now that I’m nearly thirty (gasp), I’m being invited to weddings, stag dos, the lot. My first ever stag is in...
The deliveries of eight infants in the UK via a three-person IVF technique have astonished the world. Nonetheless, its connection to a largely prohibited type of genome editing has raised concerns among the scientific community. Science has once again expanded its frontiers in a landmark procedure that conceived babies via...
A Gen Z marketing whizz with endless strings to her bow, Erifili is the founder of a global creative agency (The Z Link), an author and prolific Substacker, photographer, public speaker, and co-hosts the Espresso Epilogues podcast. She also features on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
Meagan Loyst, of New York, is the CEO and founder of Gen Z VCs – an active community of 27,000 investors, founders, and operators from 80 countries. She is a leading voice on upcoming tech and consumer trends and her daily content spans everything from climate change, to gaming.
Heman Bekele, a 14-year-old inventor, won the 2023 3M Young Scientist Challenge for developing a cost-effective soap that combats skin cancer by harnessing the power of sunlight to kill cancer cells during handwashing.
In the world of sports, heroes are often defined by their medals. Challenging this notion is Vinesh Phogat, the Indian wrestler whose relentless fight against systemic injustice on her journey to the Paris Olympics has encouraged us to reconsider who we identify as sporting icons.
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