What’s the difference between a tumour and cancer?
By Sarah Sasson & Megan Barnet The terms tumour and cancer can refer to different types of lumps and bumps. But the terms are often confused and misused – by the general public and even health professionals. For instance, doctors can use euphemisms such as tumour, mass, lesion or spot when they really mean cancer. So what’s
Friday essay: how societies evolved into fear-dominated goliaths – then collapsed
By John Long We think of ancient civilisations as operating very differently from the way our economy works today. Yet the Bronze Age Assyrians living in Mesopotamia, around 4,000 to 3,000 years ago, began the basis of modern capitalism, in a region spanning most of modern-day Iraq, eastern Syria and southeastern Turkey. The Assyrian empire was
Cambodia’s rising FDI numbers don’t add up to quality growth
By Mom Mit Since 2024, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet has intensified efforts to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) to Cambodia. But while the quantity of FDI has increased, Cambodia’s weak institutions and rampant corruption prevent the nation from attracting high-quality investment. FDI has long been one of the main engines of Cambodia’s economic growth. From 1994
Why do rich people give?
By Hilary Pearson What do we really know about ultra-wealthy donors? A new book reports the results of a third major survey of wealthy UK donors and will be of interest to anyone wanting to understand the motivations, fears, and expectations of their potential donors. Rich Expectations: Why Rich People Give, by Beth Breeze and
‘Digital colonialism’: how AI companies are following the playbook of empire
ByJessica Russ-Smith & Michelle Lazarus In the eyes of big AI companies such as OpenAI, the troves of data on the internet are highly valuable. They scrape photos, videos, books, blog posts, albums, painting, photographs and much more to train their products such as ChatGPT – usually without any compensation to or consent from the
