Chilean women are suffering the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic in greater numbers than their male counterparts. Rafael Calcines Women have greater contact with Covid-19 patients, as they make up a larger part of healthcare workers and are also those who, in their homes, carry the weight of […]
In Focus
In Focus
Renewable energy, a post-pandemic option
Now, when the World Bank predicts that the global economy will experience a drastic 5.2% contraction this year, after Covid-19 plunged it into the worst recession since World War II, boosting renewable energy seems to be the answer to meeting the expectations of economic growth, environmental care and energy security. […]
Containing our fears
The River Thames is empty. Tour boats lie moored in the centre of the estuary. The only moving vessels are police launches patrolling for transgressors against lockdown, and the drug smugglers. Steve Latham In our “splendid isolation” (a term coined to describe Britain’s diplomatic policy of avoiding entangling […]
Yearning for an absolute
If science can describe reality as it ‘really is’, any such description would be transcendental, independent of our observations and partial perspectives. Sean Sheehan The philosopher Meillassoux uses fossils as proof that we can access a reality unrelated to human knowledge. We are grounded in historically-determined horizons of […]
The fear of Covid-19 is overcome with science and love
Carlos Tello Ponce, an Ecuadorian doctor who applies knowledge learnt in Cuba whilst fighting coronavirus in his homeland. Sinay Céspedes Moreno Every morning, the family medicine specialist attends the IESS South Quito hospital, in the capital, to attend to possible carriers of the new strain of coronavirus. But […]
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