Are vaccines the most effective tool to protect people from COVID-19?

This is the question asked by many of us for the past few months.  People are considering whether to make COVID-19 vaccination mandatory in order to increase vaccination rates and achieve public health goals like preventing the spread of the disease and if so, under what conditions and context. The government and other institutions such …

HOW CAN FAILURES SHAPE ONE’S LIFE?

A failed marriage, broken friendships, and bankrupted start-ups form part of the various lessons that life has to teach us. We often tag those as failures or rejections and most of the time, we let go of such an opportunity to reinvent our own being. Instead, due to mediocre self-control, our emotions (at most negative …

Biometric Technology- an Orwellian dystopia moulding into distinct likelihood?

May 2019. An investigator in New York receives a trove of disturbing images chronicling the sexual abuse of a young girl. The photo is grainy. The angle, a bit oblique. But this hardly deters the investigator from running the face through a new yet peculiar app, Clearview AI, which, combined with official photography from law …

How do poor parenting skills affect a child’s development?

“Instead of treating your child like how you were treated. Treat them with the same love and attention you wanted from your parents while growing up.” – Jonathan Anthony Burnett It's a query that runs via each parent's mind, at least one day: Am I a terrible parent? The disheartened actuality is that a minority …

Is there someone out there?

The universe is unquestionably huge and massive. One of the most compelling questions to possibly ask is whether there is even more that exists outside our bubble? Even though the universe is infinite, with billions of galaxies and stars spinning in the space, many people think that it is finite. The reason is because we …

Genocide in China: The inhumane treatment of the Uyghur community

The Uyghurs are an ethnic group which consider themselves as culturally close to Central Asia nations. There are about 12 million Uyghurs, mostly Muslims, living in Xinjiang, which is officially known as the Xinjiang Uyghurs autonomous Region (XUAR). The Uyghurs speak their own language, which is like Turkish, and they make up less than half …

How do poor parenting skills affect a child’s development?

“Instead of treating your child like how you were treated. Treat them with the same love and attention you wanted from your parents while growing up.” – Jonathan Anthony Burnett It's a query that runs via each parent's mind, at least one day: Am I a terrible parent? The disheartened actuality is that a minority …

The place of traditional libraries in today’s world.

Libraries have existed since 2600 BC. From tablets and scrolls to bound books, they have been a store of information. But nowadays in our contemporary and highly computerized society, people are wondering about the significance of traditional libraries in our electronic and digitized environment amidst technological boon. Even though libraries are reinventing themselves and their …

CAN FREEDOM OF SPEECH BE ABUSED?

The ability to share own’s point of view comprises a major asset in today’s modern world. Fiery geopolitics, social media, an underlying recession, and a devastating pandemic – we have seen Mother Earth at its lowest. Lore has it further that one word can be a double-edged sword and if blurted out, uncompromising events may …

Egoistic Altruism- the dichotomy that will bring about utopia?

A trip down pre-industrial memory lane would teleport us to the halcyon days of furrowed landscapes tilled by oxen and wheels of straw soaking in sunshine upon the rustic wind. Indeed while, this era does elicit a unique and wistful yearning for the olden days, it certainly was not the best of times. It was …

Is it possible for mankind to reach one type of civilization by the end of this century?

In 1964, Russian astrophysicist Nikolai Kardashev figured that civilizations can be categorized by the total amount of energy available to them. The Kardashev Scale, as it is called, proposed in 1964 by Nikolai Kardashev and modified in 1973 by Carl Sagan, now consists of 7 levels of civilizations based on their power consumption, and implicitly …