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Should we forgo information privacy law protections for COVID-19 mobile phone contact tracing? Governments worldwide view contact tracing as a key tool to mitigate COVID-19 community transmission. Contact tracing investigations are time-consuming and labour intensive. They involve numerous interviews that retrace the recent location histories of positively identified individuals to ascertain potential sources of transmission. […]
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On 16 May 1960, Ted Maiman used silver coated mirrors, a ruby crystal and a photo flash gun to create the first working laser... Brian Culshaw, author of Introducing Photonics, 2020, explains what makes a laser so useful and introduces a number of the laser's vast applications.
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A sustainable food revolution holds the key to ending the Sixth Extinction that is wiping out the world’s wild animals and plants. “Such is the insatiable power of the human jawbone that rethinking food not only holds the key to peace and plenty for all, but also to ending the 6th Extinction and regenerating a […]
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In January 1983, two junior members of Congress, John E. Porter – a moderate Republican from Illinois – and Tom Lantos – a liberal Democrat from California – launched a new forum dedicated to “encourage broad bipartisan attention to human rights abuses” across the world. By the end of the decade, their Congressional Human Rights […]
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It was fifty years ago, on 10 April 1970, that Paul McCartney announced the break-up of the Beatles. That the end of the Beatles came so soon after the end of the 1960s helped to cement the association between the decade and band. An optimistic perspective on the relationship between the 1960s and the Beatles […]
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Novel artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are being introduced at an accelerating pace and they can, generally, be helpful tools for individuals. However, there has been little consideration as to how these technologies are shaped and the ways in which they may impact those with disability and dependency. The co-editors of “Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics”, […]
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On November 21 the British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen delivered a keynote address on the occasion of being honored with the International Leadership Award from the Anti-Defamation League, an organization deservedly praised for their activism in tracking and countering anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry. Cohen used the occasion to outline what, on first hearing, […]
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How we understand and respond to failure is one of the most defining features of how our lives pan out. Some people refuse to fail. Some people expect to fail. Some people always hide from their own failings (most of these currently seem to be in politics). Others always look for failings in themselves, or […]
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