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The most basic definition of data science is that it involves the collection, storage, organisation and analysis of massive amounts of data. Yet without a deeper understanding, one might think a data scientist sits in a dark room, huddled…

With veganism gaining rapid momentum in the western academic and philosophical spheres, it becomes relevant to discuss various intersectional concepts that have arisen in its context. In her ground-breaking work The Sexual Politics of Meat,…

In 2016 a 16 year old Argentinian girl, Lucía Pérez, met up with two men she thought were friends, who she thought she was going to hang out with and smoke some weed. They led her to an abandoned building, brutally raped her, impaled her…

Big Ideas 2019 includes a fairytale-inspired innovation to save the lives of firefighters, The Quickstitch for rapid wound closure and energy efficient wastewater recycling Twelve investor-ready start-ups will pitch their new technology…

"The Grand Experiment," — these are the words founding father Alexander Hamilton used to describe the United States’ Democratic Republic. That was in 1788. Were you to compare what constitutes a "progressive" political idea in 2019 to the…

There are some 2.3 billion video gamers in the world today who play video games for hours at a time every week. They can be very involved with multiplayer games. They tend to have their own avatar which can be personalised to different…

There's a lot to say about how artificial intelligence will disrupt healthcare as we know it. Here's a crash course in what AI and machine learning mean for healthcare today and what the future could look like for these technologies.…

Processed food has been with civilisation for centuries, the dominant belief that kitchen equals good and factory is bad needs to be challenged, and misunderstandings about food processing is leading to massive food waste, asserts a new…

I stand above the ocean at Sky Road’s summit and look out over the islands, where folktales say mermaids sit and sing and comb their hair. A group of French tourists laugh amongst themselves. There’s the smell of saltwater and faraway…

Homelessness affects a wide variety of people in the United States, but perhaps no group is more at risk than LGBTQ youth. Many LGBTQ youth are left homeless due to discrimination and harassment from family members and have no other place…