Green is the new black
Oil stocks tumble as President Biden backs the #BuildBackBetter meme
Dateline:
22 January 2023
Coal is dead in the ground, except for India and China, and even there, they’re long past the peak. Now…
Party like it’s your birthday, every day
The Roaring Twenties are back!
Dateline:
3 September 2023
The dancing shoes have been dusted off and the champagne fountains are overflowing. After more than two years of being…
It pays to be direct
Whose customer is it anyway?
Dateline:
9 January 2025
One of the more visible trends during the pandemic years was the pivot towards direct sales to customers, also known…
New Year is for the birds
And the bees, and the fish and the trees
Dateline:
1 January 2023
After the last three years of pandemic-depressed New Year’s celebrations, we’ve got something to shout about at last. Coronavirus is…
The meme that stole Christmas
Nothing unscientific really matters anymore
Dateline:
22 December 2024
Four years ago, Christmas was cancelled by the Coronavirus pandemic, as borders closed and many countries announced lockdowns, in the…
Living robots do nanotech chores
Molecular machines on the atomic assembly line
Dateline:
17 December 2024
Almost five years ago, scientists created the first living robots, called xenobots, from tiny blobs of frog stem cells. Most…
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When a suitcase is not just a suitcase
Dateline: 14 October 2008
“It’s completely unfair,” said Molly Abernathy. “We’ve been waiting here for two hours before departure and that man arrives ten minutes before and gets checked in immediately. Like he’s a celebrity!” ‘That man’ is Nigel Watts, one of a new breed of business travelers. All of his baggage and hand luggage are digitally tagged to...
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