Our Strength Lies in Our Humanity
Why plants don’t die from cancer An abandoned hotel building in Pripyat, a few miles from Chernobyl. Fotokon/Shutterstock Chernobyl has become a byword for catastrophe. The 1986 nuclear disaster, recently brought back into the public eye by the hugely popular TV show of the same name, caused thousands of cancers, turned a once populous area into a ghost city, and resulted in the setting up of an exclusion zone 2600km²…
Amazon wins ‘.amazon’ domain name, aggravating South American region and undermining digital commons Sundry Photography/Shutterstock Amazon has a new means of dominating the market – one that threatens the economic interests of the people who call the original Amazon home. In May 2019, the online megastore secured the general top-level domain name “.amazon.” Anyone with the internet will recognise these domain types even if they don’t know the term. They’re…