News from The Unapologists
In a heart-warming and climate-cooling victory for both democracy and environment, the Scottish government plans to place an indefinite ban on fracking.
A temporary moratorium on the environmentally questionable fossil fuel extraction technique had already been in place since January 2015, with a five-month public consultation earlier this year inviting citizens’ views on whether it should be made permanent. Read more...
A recent report by the Universal Ecological Fund reveals the staggering cost that climate change has already inflicted on the United States.
Extreme weather events and fossil fuel related health problems have cost the U.S. at least $240 billion a year over the past decade. Read more...
Recent coverage of the Plimpton 322 has made inflated claims about the importance of its discovery - but does it hold up to scrutiny?
Artefact Plimpton 322 has been in the news lately - an ancient Babylonian clay tablet inscribed with numbers (now known as Pythagorean Triples) which has recently been hailed as a key unearthing in the existence of trigonometry. Read more...
An Oxford-based student campaign network group has today launched a set of principles aimed at improving media’s portrayal of migrant issues.
People & Planet developed the list in coordination with migrant activists, young migrants, and members of the media. It includes proposals such as a moratorium on the use of the phrase “illegal immigrants” in favour of more humanising terms, more direct input from migrants in coverage of their issues, and the neutralisation of racial prejudice in media coverage. Read more...
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is planning to start collecting social media data from immigrants starting from October 18th.
The new rule was published in the Federal Register last week, and will apply to all immigrants including green card holders and naturalised citizens. Read more...
High street second-hand electronics chain CeX has been subject to a monumental security breach, involving the theft of personal details and payment information.
Customers of the high street gadget chain were informed by the company in an email sent by the Managing Director. Read more...
New research has found a link between a person’s intelligence and the likelihood of them passing their driving test first time.
‘I failed again’.
The amount of times my mother has heard me speak those words is likely more than most. Read more...
Students at some of the UK’s top universities have snubbed the 2017 National Student Survey to try and prevent the government from using the results to justify rising tuition fees.
Data from Oxford, Cambridge, Sheffield, Manchester, Bristol, Liverpool, University College London and King’s College London will all be missing from this year’s results, as less than half of the students eligible to vote responded. Read more...
Labour MP Paul Flynn is urging people to use weed in the Houses of Parliament in order to challenge the current law and help those suffering from serious illnesses.
Flynn spoke during a Commons debate about drug policy and stated that using the Class B drug on Parliament grounds is “the only way we can get through the common mind of the government”. Read more...
The harmfulness of blue light to our sleep cycles has been widely reported on in the past few years, but a new UTM study suggests that our restless nights might in fact be due to our hunter-gatherer ancestry.
The study, recently conducted by David Samson Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UTM, supports the sentinel hypothesis, according to which restless sleeping and waking up during the night served as means of survival in hunter-gatherer groups back when sleep made humans vulnerable to predators and other threats. Read more...
