We are living in the midst of a mass extinction event known as the Holocene extinction. In 2002, the prominent biologist E.O. Wilson estimated that half of all higher organisms could be gone by the year 2100. A 2014 study …
Maria Kavanagh
Facing up to a silent disaster
Sitting at the train station in Kuala Lumpur, I swat away the deadly malaria-ridden mosquitoes. They want my blood, in exchange for a well-known tropical disease made famous by Cheryl Cole. In the train station is a billboard showing an …
Educated to emigrate
Director of the Nevin Economic Research Institute, Tom Healy, discusses the problems that persist around youth employment and emigration, and calls for more to be done for those at the bottom of the career ladder.
College has traditionally been seen …