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The  price of air travel has fallen sharply since the 1950s, and the number of available seats has doubled in just 15 years between 2004 and 2019 as no-frills airlines like EasyJet, Ryanair, etc. entered the market with their bare-bones service and attainable price brackets. However, the impact of budget airlines reverberated far beyond ticket prices. Their fast-paced expansion and ...

Now about halfwayq through reading ‘Project Hail Mary’ by Andy Weir, I am appreciating the attractions of novels written by engineers. Engineers’ novels seems to be to be more dense than the normal run of the mill novels perhaps because engineers seem to believe in making words count, and there is more to absorb in a sentence written by an ...

Ranking countries by the size of their economies and their overall net wealth, the U.S. is usually at the top of the list, followed by countries like China, Japan or Germany. But sorting countries for their per-capita average wealth – or even for their median per-capita wealth – other countries come out on top. Using the two metrics, Switzerland is ...

English, the internet’s lingua franca, connects people from all over the world. According to estimates from W3Techs, more than half of all websites use English as their content language. While  English is in fact the best bet if you want to maximize your potential audience online, its global footprint is not as large as one might think. According to estimates ...

Last year Taylor Swift was the most-streamed artist in the world on Spotify and Apple Music, she had the three best-selling albums in the United States, her “Eras Tour” became the first ever to gross more than $1 billion and the documentary shot during the tour turned out to be the highest-grossing concert movie of all time. To top it ...

The big day arrives. You ring up your bank and the voice at the other end says: “Good Morning David. What can I do for you?”  I  say “Transfer £200 to Bloggs” And the voice says: “That’s done. Anything else? “Query the item of £58.20 paid to The Dodgy Dealing company.” And the voice says: “We had already noted it ...

Up to 650 000 people succumb to flu  every year around the globe. In industrialised countries, most of these deaths occur in the age range of 65 and older. Knowing this, it is surprising how few elderly people are regularly vaccinated against the disease even in more prosperous nations. Immunisation rates vary widely and the UK tops the list of ...

According to CEOWORLD, the richest people in tech are: Jeff Bezos: $175.7 billion Larry Ellison: $136.4 billion Mark Zuckerberg: $125.6 billion Bill Gates: $119.3 billion Larry Page: $118.7 billion Sergey Brin: $113.8 billion Steve Ballmer: $111.8 billion Michael Dell: $69.6 billion Colin Huang: $51.2 billion Jensen Huang: $43.9 billion Zhang Yiming: $43.4 billion MacKenzie Scott: $41.1 billion Shiv Nadar: $33.2 ...

The minimum wage is nor enough to pay for a typical set of living expenses in any state of the US, according to an analysis from MIT Hawaii, Georgia and Utah, where the living wage gap exceeded $10 per hour, fared the worst. While Georgia and Utah only apply the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, Hawaii has a ...

Beyond their impact on the climate, fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and gas also pose significant pollution problems; for example, their combustion emits fine particles (PM2.5). According to the World Health Organization (WHO), prolonged exposure to these particles is likely to create or worsen various health problems, such as high blood pressure or diabetes.   While the WHO has ...