by Libertad | Jan 20, 2016 | Grey Matter
By Alexandra Gibbs | Members of the U.K. parliament are set to debate whether Donald Trump should be banned from entering the country, after more than half a million people signed an online petition calling for U.S. presidential candidate to be barred. A petition was...
by Libertad | Jan 13, 2016 | Grey Matter
By Niraj Chokshi | If you think the Powerball jackpot soaring to $1.5 billion is just a pleasant surprise, think again: This was by design. Sure, luck had a role. It always does. But a rule change in October made it much easier for the lottery jackpot to reach these...
by Libertad | Jan 11, 2016 | Grey Matter
By Anne Barnard | BEIRUT, Lebanon — In the hills near the Lebanese border, an hour’s drive from downtown Damascus, much of a Syrian town is starving, according to residents and international humanitarian workers. The town, Madaya, is controlled by rebels and encircled...
by Libertad | Dec 9, 2015 | Grey Matter
By Oras Tynkkynen | Bill Gates, billionaire philanthropist and technology visionary, has been a strong advocate of low-carbon technology. Most recently, he teamed up with colleagues such as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to launch the Breakthrough Energy...
by Prof. Jack Lewis | May 11, 2013 | Grey Matter
By Troy Camplin | Reading fiction opens the door to innovation. Shortly after clocks were introduced to Japan in the sixteenth century, Japanese inventors used the principles underlying the clock’s movements to create robots. True, those robots were merely mechanical...
