The world average fertility rate has fallen to approximately 2.5 children per woman, while the world population is expected to increase to over 11 billion by 2100. These two facts tell a layered tale of global population trends that is split by economic development. The least developed countries will see the greatest population increase, while…
November 6th marked the end of Daylight Saving Time (DST) 2016, which began in the springtime. Clocks were set back an hour nationwide and worldwide, in at least 70 other countries. The practice of DST in the U.S. was first established in 1918, but then repealed the following year. It then started again during World War…
Dispatches from Dubai: Dubai 101 *Please don’t kick me out of the country!* As you all may or may not know, I am spending a semester in Dubai, United Arab Emirates at the American University of Dubai. There are a lot of words to describe the Dubai and United Arab Emirates (UAE for brevity’s sake)….
On the rainy night of October 1, Macaulay Honors College hosted the award winning rock critic, Jessica Hopper. To a room full of primarily Macaulay students, she delivered the most recent William R. Kenan Lecture on Ethics and Resistance. By the end of her incredibly quotable talk, the table in the back stacked with copies of her new book, The First…
One of the prominent global environmental issues is the lack of clean drinking water in underdeveloped countries. Although water covers over 70% of the Earth, only 3% of the world’s water is freshwater – what we drink, bathe in, and irrigate farms with. Water is currently a scarce resource for 1 billion people in the…
By distributing leaflets to students and making noise on campus Brooklyn College, professors have again raised the issue of the decline in state funding for higher education. Not only are professors are not hired to teach full time so that students end up paying more for less, professors have been working without contracts for the…
Google, however, wants more than that: it wants to wants to radically and fundamentally transform the very core of the automobile.
NBA free agency 2015 was interesting, to say the least. From the DeAndre Jordan fiasco to the Lakers’ failed meetings with LaMarcus Aldridge, there was entertainment for NBA fans during the semi-dull offseason. There was no Kevin Durant in the free agent market, but there was still a fair amount of role players who could…
“No day shall erase you from the memory of time.” Recollections of September 11, 2001 have started to recede. The generation growing up now wasn’t old enough to remember, and so we learn about the horror from others. There are books, pictures, captured footage, documentaries, and now, museums. “May the lives remembered, the deeds recognized, and…
Last weekend’s Brooklyn Book Festival fell on just the right day, cooler and crisper than the preceding Saturdays. The area outside the Brooklyn Courthouse flooded with people who wanted nothing more than to shell out cash for books. Readers, writers, and other city-dwellers just looking for something to do came out to the tenth annual…
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