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By Johannes Helmold Something has always existed. According to physics, there can never be true physical nothingness—though there can be times when existence resembles nothing,…

The Business Traveler’s Dream, promoted as “the world’s first wholesale travel book engine,” worked like a charm for my staff at Social Editing. The main…

As a person who wants to use social media as a way to advertise or promote a business or yourself, you should be aware of…

By Johannes Helmold What Exactly is CBT (Change Block Tracking)? On a virtual machine (VM) that runs on a ESX/ESXi host, you sometimes want to…

By Ana Carla Costa Flying into London from the States last week, Dr Rajiv Shah had a packed agenda discussing the GAVI programme (the Global…

By Xu Xiangru From Sun Yang’s world record in the 1500m freestyle to Ye Shiwen in the women’s 400m individual medley, shocking news has never…

By Patrick West It takes a brave soul to write a revisionist history of the Second World War, one that goes against the orthodoxy that…

By Mark Carrigan In 1986, DC Comics published a four issue mini-series called Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. While few would have predicted it prior…

By Sean Bell Demands for transparency are central to the current culture of public debate. Climate scientists and their associations, the former English football captain,…

By Temi Ogunye It is interesting that many Christians no longer call upon the moral authority of their faith as their defence against criticisms made…

By Kate Hoyland What is it like to be taken over by a Chinese firm? Executives, speaking to The Economist tell of hungry decisiveness, followed…

By Valentine Rossetti The commercial release earlier this year of the film ‘I Am Love [Il Sono L’amore]—directed by Luca Guadagnino and co-produced by Tilda…

By Jason Smith We all have a soft spot for libraries. Maybe from being taken to the small local library by a primary school teacher…

By Sabreen Maryam Ali To read the morning newspaper in Britain today is to trudge through reams of dissent and disapproval with a worldly air…

By Michael Atkinson Authors’ biographies have traditionally delivered varying ratios of worship and destruction—the first quantity an organic by-product of book-love, the second an equally…

By Rob Killick The Institute for New Economic Thinking, funded by billionaire George Soros, held its first Conference in early April 2010. Just in case…

By Peter Heller Nowadays, the typical presentation of a futurologist is a near-infinite roll call of possibilities. Sometimes more than a hundred slides create something…

By Bill Borde In one of J.G. Ballard’s short stories, advertising hoardings beam rays into the minds of consumers, causing them to swerve off the…

By Denis Joe We were introduced to Nondumiso Hlwele, Bongiwe Mba, and Thobani Ncapai, three members of Bambanani, and the artist Rachel Gadsden. Last year,…

By Nikos Sotirakopoulos The period from the evening of Tuesday, the 1st of November until the afternoon of the 3rd of November 2011 will be…