We are losing soil at a rate of 30 soccer fields a minute. If we don’t slow the decline, all farmable soil could be gone in 60 years. Soil grows 95 per cent of our food and sustains human life in other more surprising ways, so this is a huge problem. “Many would argue soil …
Your voice is distinctive , depending on your physical makeup and the language you speak. The latest machines can tease apart the most minute differences, although changes in a voice owing to a cold or a stressful situation can confuse the listening machine. The latest version of Apple’s operating system learns what your voice sounds …
Earlier in the year a review confirmed a link between antidepressants and suicidal behaviour in children. The researchers looked at 70 studies involving more than 18,500 people, and found that under-18s taking either of two classes of drugs – selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs) – were more than twice as …
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Most of us are not, in the parlance of economic theory, “rational utility maximisers” but, in the words of Herbert Simon, are “satisficers”, opting for what is good and easy enough, rather than becoming confused to the point of inertia in front of huge choices of goods in the shops. Tesco, the very large British …
A massive rise in sea level is coming, and it will trigger climate chaos around the world. That was the message from a controversial recent paper by climate scientist James Hansen. It was slated by many for assuming – rather than showing – that sea level could rise by between 1 and 5 metres by …
