Why the cost-of-living crisis is damaging for students
The cost-of-living crisis is sending food prices sky high, breaking down the UKβs national health system and forcing us to abandon our petrol-based transport. What does this mean for graduating students? βFrom September, some sacrifices will have to be made,β says Sandali Jayasinghe, a 22-year-old Masterβs student based in London. Currently...
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Zimbabwe resorts to gold coins amid high inflation
In June, Zimbabwe's inflation rate increased to 192%, a 60% increase from May. In a move to curb the crisis, the central bank has launched gold coins. The country is currently experiencing high food prices, increased unemployment and an abandoning of the countryβs dollar in favor of USD. Covid-19...
Australian senator Fatima Paymanβs mission to normalise the hijab
Fatima Payman is the first hijab minister in Australiaβs history. In cultivating a positive narrative around the headscarf, sheβs determined she wonβt be the last. The Australian Labour party announced Fatima Payman as their newest senator in June 2022, and this month she took her seat in the senate as...
Why the response to the monkeypox outbreak is problematic
Monkeypox was just declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organisation. Why are officials pushing the damaging narrative that itβs only a concern for men in the LGBTQ community? Although weβve all experienced a heightened awareness towards contagious illnesses over the last few years, it appears that officials...
Understanding the history of Pakistanβs blasphemy laws
Pakistan is one of the very few countries in the world to offer the death penalty for blasphemy. Being a highly controversial issue, will the state be able to curb the misuse or amend the provisions of the law? Youβd be forgiven for thinking blasphemy laws are archaic, forgotten technicalities...
Alena Wicker is the youngest student accepted to medical school
After completing two degrees β yes, two β 13-year-old Alena Wicker is off to medical school, making her the youngest person ever to do so.Β Most of us will remember being 13. For Gen-Z, it was a time filled with Tamagotchi and Justin Bieber. Our proudest accomplishments probably involved a particularly...
Opinion β removing abortion rights is fatal for diabetics
The moment you strip a diabetic of their choice to have an abortion is the moment you put their life in grave danger. Last month, the US Supreme Court handed down a controversial judgment, effectively changing the course of history as we know it. It shook the ground under millions of women across the US and has generated waves of anger, fear, and despair across the world. From those who are...
Afghanistanβs opioid crisis is only getting worse
Years of persistent poverty and war have turned thousands of Afghan men to drug use. Addiction has been fuelled by the countryβs prolific poppy industry. Now, under Taliban rule, the crisis shows no signs of improving.Β Ebraham Norooziβs recent look at Afghanistanβs drug crisis paints a morbid picture. Men dying on the hillsides of Kabul, others already gone. Norooziβs Afghanistan is a country in the depths of addiction and crisis,...
Brain-computer interfaces are no longer a thing of science fiction
Endovascular BCI company Synchron has implanted its device in a US patient for the first time, bringing the ground-breaking technology a noteworthy step closer to distribution. With our reality feeling more and more like Black Mirror incarnate every day, itβs not often that Iβm taken aback by news of the latest technological advances. From the enigmatic growth of the metaverse and wising up of existing Artificial Intelligences to the various...
California beach returned to Black ownersβ family in landmark move
Los Angeles County Officials have returned the deed of Manhattan Beach to the property ownersβ great-grandson almost 100 years after it was stolen in a racially motivated seizure. Bruceβs Beach in California β known to most people today as Manhattan Beach β has a history that most people who visit it today know little about. The beachfront property was owned by an African American couple, Charles and Willa Bruce, who purchased...
