ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
A Curtin University-led research team used a supercomputer to simulate how a supercontinent forms. They discovered that because the Earth has been cooling for billions of years, the thickness and strength of the plates under the oceans reduce with time, making it difficult for the next supercontinent to assemble by closing the “young” oceans, such …
“Advising billionaires on how to give away their money and encourage them to give more is definitely not where I saw my life going.” That’s William MacAskill (Oxford), quoted in a New York Times article about his influence on the philanthropy of the very wealthy. He adds: “If I can help encourage people who do have enormous …
The Nobel Prize in physics this year has been awarded “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”. Read more
More than 4 in 10 Americans (42%) say they are struggling to remain where they are financially. This is the first time since Monmouth started asking the question five years ago that the number topped 3 in 10 – the range in prior polls was 20% to 29%. Just under half (47%) say their current …
A stunning 88% of Americans now believe the U.S. is on the wrong track and just 10% believe it is on the right track, according to a new poll from the Monmouth University Polling Institute, marking an all-time low for the question, with President Biden facing a whopping 58% disapproval rate as respondents worry chiefly about the …
After the Union Army captured New Orleans in 1862, slave owners in Confederate states migrated to Texas with more than 150,000 enslaved Black persons. For 3 years, even after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, enslaved Black Americans in Texas remained in brutal bondage, immorally and illegally deprived of their freedom and basic dignity. …
Ethiopian Airlines is shipping live wild animals around the world unsafely for luxury use as exotic pets from West Africa, says a new investigation by a nongovernmental organization (NGO). Read more
Beginning with The Fifth Branch, I have examined the ways in which scientific and technical advice shore up the legitimacy of public decisions. That book introduced and developed the concept of “regulatory science” as a distinct domain of scientific production, accountable to epistemic as well as normative demands in ways that help explain why it is …
After a successful inaugural launch at the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 2019, African Innovation Week 2020 went Digital from 9-13 November 2020, in collaboration with partners, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The African Union, and the Technology and Innovation Institute of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. Read more
By strengthening the startup ecosystem through capacity-building and commercialization, matching investors with potential startups, and monitoring, evaluating, and researching helping policy-makers make the right decisions on time, African Innovation Week is striving to help young people in Africa get decent work. African Innovation Week is growing rapidly through its over 108 Ambassadors across the continent, …