01 JAN 2021 Getting coughed on has never been a pleasant experience, but 2020 has made it a whole new level of nope. Even with vaccines being rolled out, our main lines of defence against COVID-19 are still physical, with distancing from each other and wearing a mask being chief amongst them. …
Read More »PFIZER’S COVID-19 VACCINE, IN WORLD FIRST, UK APPROVES
06 DEC 2020 Britain approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday (02ND DEC,2020), jumping ahead of the rest of the world in the race to begin the most crucial mass inoculation programme in history with a shot tested in wide-scale clinical trials. Prime Minister Boris Johnson touted the greenlight from the …
Read More »EVIDENCE IS IN: FEMALE LEADERS REALLY ARE TACKLING THE PANDEMIC BETTER
08 SEPT 2020 Over the last few months, there has been much discussion of leadership during the pandemic. What constitutes good leadership? Who has performed better and which countries have been worse? One pattern that emerged early on was that female leaders were seen to have handled the crisis remarkably well. …
Read More »WARNINGS ISSUED AS CHINA CONFIRMS A CASE OF BUBONIC PLAGUE IN INNER MONGOLIA
06 JULY 2020 Authorities in an autonomous region in northern China have issued a health warning after a local farmer contracted the bubonic plague. A herdsman was reportedly in a stable condition after having been confirmed to have caught the disease on Sunday, according to the New York Times. Health officials in …
Read More »WTO: G20 TRADE RESTRICTIONS HISTORICALLY HIGH
24 JUN 2019 The WTO’s 21st Monitoring Report on G20 trade measures issued on June 24 shows a continuation of record high trade restrictions. The trade coverage of new import-restrictive measures introduced during the period (October 2018 to May 2019) was more than 3.5 times the average since May 2012 …
Read More »CLEAN ENERGY BECOMES DOMINANT POWER SOURCE IN U.K.
21 JUN 2019 By Jeremy Hodges (Bloomberg) –The U.K. will generate more energy from low-carbon sources than from fossil fuels this year for the first time since the Industrial Revolution. Wind, solar, hydro and nuclear plants provided 48% of the nation’s electricity in the first five months of 2019, according …
Read More »BIMCO PUBLISHES IMO 2020 SULPHUR CLAUSES
10 DEC 2018 International shipping association BIMCO has published two sulphur content-related bunker clauses dealing with general compliance and the transitional period for the International Maritime Organization’s 2020 global sulphur limit in marine fuel. The two clauses are BIMCO 2020 Marine Sulphur Content Clause for Time Charter Parties and BIMCO 2020 Fuel …
Read More »HOW LONG COMMON DRUGS STAY IN YOUR BODY
23 SEP 2018 Contrary to what many advertised drug tests might promise, not all substances leave their telltale chemical signature in the body for the same amount of time. The moment we take a drug – whether we snort, smoke, or swallow it – our bodies begin to break it …
Read More »HAIR FOLLICLES CAN ‘SMELL’ SANDALWOOD, AND IT COULD BE A RADICAL NEW WAY TO TREAT BALDNESS
19 SEP 2018 We tend to imagine smells as things that just float around us in the air, but there’s more to it than that. What we perceive as smell is actually an intersection between molecules called odorants (or aroma compounds) and olfactory receptors that are expressed by cells in our body, which send …
Read More »HOW OFTEN YOU SHOULD WASH YOUR HAIR, ACCORDING TO SCIENCE
27 JUN 2018 You’ve probably wondered how often you need to wash that (sometimes greasy, sometimes not) hair of yours. The question is a vexing one. It’s so common, in fact, that it’s the third suggestion that pops up when typing “how often” into Google (following queries about showering and pooping). …
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