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Workers' raw deal
Postbag, Published on 27/11/2024
» Re: "Govt gets tips to run economy", (BP, Nov 25).
Will humans survive the next 100 years?
Oped, Peter Singer, Published on 24/08/2024
» In May, experts from many fields gathered in Montenegro to discuss "Existential Threats and Other Disasters: How Should We Address Them." The term "existential risk" was popularised in a 2002 essay by the philosopher Nick Bostrom, who defined it as referring to risks such that "an adverse outcome would either annihilate Earth-originating intelligent life, or permanently and drastically curtail its potential".
When do we die? Disputing the definition of death
Oped, Peter Singer & Charles Camosy, Published on 14/11/2023
» 'What is it you don't understand? She's dead, dead, dead." That is how David Durand, Chief Medical Officer of Oakland's Children's Hospital, attempted to convince the family of Jahi McMath that the standard medical tests for brain death had shown that their teenage daughter was no longer alive.
Fair competition
News, Published on 14/11/2022
» Re: "Grab enlisted to ease airport taxi woes," (BP, 12 Nov).
Investigate THAI
News, Published on 28/09/2021
» Re: "Thaksin linked to THAI's losses", (BP, Sept 18).
Democracy is default mode of civilisations
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 30/07/2021
» At first I was going to write about the "Arab Problem", because there is not a single functioning democracy in the Arab world. This week's presidential coup in Tunisia has probably ended democracy in the one country that actually achieved it during the "Arab Spring" of 2010-11.
Morally untenable
Oped, Postbag, Published on 26/10/2019
» Re: “Not child’s play”, (PostBag, Oct 25). Unfortunately, in his efforts to defend the indefensible, Vint Chavala falls into a common corruption of those whose position is intellectually and morally untenable. He has either not read Yuval Noah Harari’s excellent books, merely copying what others have said about them, or he has failed to understand what Harari says, or he has committed a more serious moral and intellectual sin.
Eroding freedoms
News, Postbag, Published on 25/10/2019
» In the last five years there appears to have been an insidious creep towards a police state.
Noble no more
News, Postbag, Published on 17/09/2019
» An American senator is said to have coined the phrase, "The first casualty when war comes is truth", back in 1918.
How about a social-digital solution to automation?
News, Nicholas Agar, Published on 06/03/2019
» Nowadays, one struggles to think of any jobs that will still be available for our children when they grow up. Panicked parents are increasingly trying to anticipate the next big digital thing, so that they can give their kids a leg-up over all the other humans whose jobs will soon be automated. Accountants and radiographers are already doomed, but surely the developers perfecting driverless cars or adding new features to Facebook are safe, right?