Publications
August 12, 2016
Weekly Report 16-33
THE MOST COMMON CAUSE OF PERSONAL STRESS IS TIME PRESSURE relating to money, work, family, or all three. According to the American Psychological Ass’n, stress leads to anxiety disorders for women at a rate twice as prevalent as men, is linked to high blood pressure, headaches, upset stomachs, insomnia, and “chronic stress can ravage the... Continue
August 5, 2016
Weekly Report 16-32
FACE RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY IS A “CUTTING-EDGE PRIVACY NIGHTMARE… The ethical and regulatory quandaries posed by artificial intelligence technology are not theoretical: they’re here already – inside your smartphone… with capacity to completely destroy the expectation of anonymity in public.” Concerns have been raised by Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking and others, but the technology also looks... Continue
July 29, 2016
Weekly Report 16-30
“GLOBAL WARMING APPEARS TO HAVE GONE INTO OVERDRIVE, with the northern hemisphere growing 2 degrees Centigrade (3.6 Fahrenheit) which has long been held as the point above which climate change may be ‘dangerous’ to humanity… It took from the dawn of the industrial age until last October to reach the first 1 degree C rise,... Continue
July 29, 2016
Weekly Report 16-31
A CULTURE OF CHRONIC OVERWORK IS CREATING ANXIETIES ABOUT ‘BURNOUT’ – exhaustion stemming not just from workload, but also from “electronic communication & social media which have come to dominate our daily lives, in a transformation that is unprecedented… where our very sense of self is defined increasingly by an unending wait for the verdicts... Continue
July 15, 2016