Africa: A Sole Superpower In Incubation?
Fervent debates are currently underway aiming to predict the allocation of power in the future geopolitical stage. Economic analysts and futurists forecast the imminent downfall of the US-dominated status quo and herald a new, multipolar world order, where states such as China, Russia, and India vie with America neck and ...
The Problem of the Republicans
The Republican senators in the USA voted today against Donald Trump’s impeachment. It seems the demagogue still sways his whip over the party. One wonders why they decided to keep him when they had the opportunity to get rid of him. Is it because they like him? Politicians are intrinsically ...
Microchip, DNA-Alteration, and Other Nonsense: Anti-Vax Conspiracy Theories Debunked
The Coronavirus pandemic has presented designers and propagators of conspiracy theories with a whole new cornucopia of lucrative opportunities. The conspiratorial con-artists’ imagination has lived up to the occasion above and beyond, producing a wide array of wild fantastical tales to cater to the deception-prone, overly-skeptical public’s insatiable thirst for ...
Would there be enough food if everyone went vegan?
Many people, vegans or vegetarians, will tell you that if everyone went vegan, there would be at least as much, if not more, food to feed the world's human population. For the umpteenth time in my life, I was told that thing again in a comment on another recent article ...
Why do People go Vegan… Should EVERYONE go Vegan?
Veganism, year after year, is growing into an increasingly hot topic. During my multitudinous encounters and miscellaneous conversations with people around the world, veganism, aside from it becoming a more and more common subject, I have also observed it evolving into a steadily more fanaticism-inspiring one. Indeed, the zealotry exhibited ...
The Universe: A God in an Egg
Out there... Someplace amidst the vast oceans of possibilities; somewhere and somewhen that where and when do not bear a meaning; in some fiddling, eerie corner of everything and nothing... A God is about to lay offspring. BOOM! A new world has just erupted into existence. A bubble of squashed ...
How Imagination Creates Reality
Imagination is commonly understood as the opposite of reality. We typically define the ‘real’ as what can be perceived by our senses and the ‘imaginary’ as what cannot be perceived by our senses. Dreams of both dormant and awaken state, ideals, fairytales, fiction of any sort... are all regarded by ...
The Airbnb Culture: the profound impact home-sharing algorithms are having on global civilization
Like many other Internet companies, Airbnb has had a radical impact on the way society and economy function. Impact on property prices worldwide and fundamental disruption of the traditional hospitality industry are just two of the many ways that this and similar companies transform society and culture. One of the ...
The Abolition of Thought Privacy: The Singularity
We are humans raised under an all-enveloping system of humanistic ideals which has taught us to appreciate and worship our privacy and individuality. A lot of buzz has been generated amongst us to express concerns about our threatened privacy over the unfolding of the technological/historical events of the past couple ...
Fight against Globalization??
It seems there is an overwhelmingly prevalent current in human opinion urging to fight against globalization. Not surprising. Human has always shown to be reluctant to change throughout history. Especially when change concerns the fundamental structure of society - for some reason - perhaps because it is a kind of ...
Why did humans develop large brains? – Bipedalism, hands, and data processing
Why did humans, out of all the vast variety of living creatures on earth, become the only species to develop such large and complex brains? Though somewhat intuitively - I have to admit - the answer to this question seems to me rather clear and straightforward: because they were the ...
Most Striking Contradictions in the Gospels among the Four Evangelists
This article is not concerned with any contradictions to be found between the Old and the New Testament; nor any between the Gospels and other, subsequent books of the New Testament; nor any between the Gospels and positive history or common sense. Here are only enumerated some of the most ...