In much of Africa the family is bank, business and welfare state
Dec 12th 2019KAMPALAA GAGGLE OF children play outside Dorothy Nabitaka’s front door on the outskirts of Kampala, the Ugandan capital. She shares her home with 17 people: her mother, child, sisters, nephews, nieces, cousins, and several children she has taken in simply because they had nowhere else to stay. She helps others pay school fees…
Ugly Cities Transformed into Works of Art
Art comes in many forms; sculptures, music, paintings, dancing and even tattooing. But it is a creative skill that takes time and talent to master. Due to the nature of art, most people around the globe appreciate it in some form or other. That’s what is so beautiful about art. It’s a personal opinion, but…
Vegan Condoms? Your Sex Life Is Now PETA-Approved
Vegan condoms don’t test on animals and don’t possess animal components. And due to that, you can now bone with a clear conscience.“Condom fragments are inserted into rabbits for a vaginal irritation test. The rabbits are sacrificed, and their wombs are extracted to determine its suitability for people,” Gina Park, South Korea-based social venture Instinctus’…
Robot Bartending Company Giving Cash To The Humans It Is Replacing
For every robot bartender that Makr Shakr sells, the company is giving a $1,000 monthly stipend to selected humans likely to be impacted by automation.There’s no question that automation is going to have a dramatic impact on employment over the approaching decades. Whether you presume it’s going to cause mass unemployment or wind up establishing…
How to Make Instagram Videos a Successful Part of Your Marketing Strategy
Instagram‘s complicated algorithm relies heavily on user engagement to determine if your posts are worthy of showing up on your followers’ feeds. A heavily engaged following earns more exposure and attention from some of the most targeted audiences available. In order to reach this audience, however, you need to stand out. Grab their attention in…
Lady Is ‘Exhausted’ After Engaging In 7 One Night Stands In A Week
Nadia Bokody, from Australia, who had seven one night stands, too admitted to her pal that she did not have sex in the final year of her marriage. Nadia had just got out of a seven-year matrimony and there was only one thing which was on her mind – sex! She informed her buddy that…
Number of Measles Cases So Far in 2019 is Already Higher Than All of 2018 Combined
Back in January, the World Health Organisation called the anti-vax movement the “biggest threat to global health in 2019.” And three months into the year, the number of measles cases in the U.S has already topped the count for the whole of 2018. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there have been…
‘Tinder For Cows’ Matches Cattle In The Mood For Loving
A Tinder-inspired app, called ‘Tudder,’ is assisting farmers in matching up potential mates for their cattle—swiping right on cows they like the look of. Farmers are then forwarded to a page on website SellMyLivestock, where they can browse more data and photos about the animals before choosing whether to purchase. Useful information is available on…
How betting on oil prices greases the industry’s wheels
OF ALL THE lines of all the characters in all the scenes in “Casablanca”, the ones that resonate most are spoken not by Humphrey Bogart, the leading man, but by Claude Rains, who plays Louis Renault, a cynical police captain. Needing a pretext to shut down Rick’s, the nightclub owned by Bogart’s character, he declares…
The IMF adds to a chorus of concern about competition
PHYSICISTS’ QUEST for a “theory of everything” to explain all of their observations about the world is well-known. The equivalent in economics is the hunt for common causes for the rich-world macroeconomic trends of the past decade or so: a shrinking share of the economic pie for workers, disappointing investment and lacklustre productivity growth. These…