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Category: Social

  • How cryptocurrencies are like normal money

    Last week I wrote about blockchain, the technology that underpins cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. I’m interested in this latest development, and so is the Maltese government. Critics tell us Bitcoin is only meant for criminals, but how true is this? Just to recap, the technology behind cryptocurrencies, a blockchain is a chain of many blocks of records.…

  • American Media and its Role in Violence and Mass Shootings

    For as long as anyone could remember, the United States has been the main source of public shootings for decades. It seems that we hear at least once every few weeks of a lone gunman shooting at unarmed people in confined spaces like schools, offices or government buildings with the intention of killing as much…

  • Instantly understand blockchain with this explanation

    There’s been plenty of talk in Malta about blockchain over the past 12 months. I’ve followed the international news and am struck by the coverage. Blockchain is either going to solve all our problems or will cause civilisation to collapse. This is the first of a 3-part series that separates fact from fantasy. I In…

  • How Malta can have a free smart city

    There is plenty of talk on the international scene about smart cities. They’re creating our future by basing city-planning on accurate and timely data. Malta, as a small island, is perfectly poised to take advantage of this research. But does it? I Anyone who works in technology will tell you nothing beats testing in a…

  • Is Embryo Freezing ethical in today’s society?

    IVF is understood as in vitro fertilisation this is a process of fertilisation where an egg is combined with sperm outside the body, in vitro. This process has been largely controversial from its beginning due to the morality of it and nowadays the somewhat of the commercialism of IVF. In today’s day and age we…

  • Keeping Motivated

    Keeping Motivated

    Good evening ladies and gents of the internet! Hope y’all had a good week and had a good St. Patrick’s Day too! For this week, I thought I’d post something a little non-bookish, as this week’s been mighty stressful behind-the-scenes since I’m prepping for my exams and also looking into summer jobs and what-not. So, we…

  • Discover how a Universal Basic Income will change your life

    There’s been much talk of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) over the past few years. This is a fixed salary that government pays every single citizen, no matter what their situation is. A few countries are experimenting with it, but there’s been little discussion about it in Malta. I The concept of a UBI is…

  • Are exam grades a mirror of a person’s capability?

    Are exam grades a mirror of a person’s capability?

    The educational system being used is that of testing a student by making them take a written exam. Here, one is judged solely on how well that person was able to memorise what was taught during lessons. This method has been around since the beginning of education as we know it, and has never changed,…

  • The Death Penalty, legally justifying a breach in morality

    The Death Penalty, legally justifying a breach in morality

    Capital Punishment is usually understood as a government-sanctioned practice whereby a person is put to death for a crime they committed, usually being rather heinous crimes like murder, rape, terrorism, large-scale drug trafficking, espionage, treason and any other crime that the court in charge deems that the accused should be put to death for it.…

  • Abortion, solution or setback?

    Due to lots of talk about abortion as of late, it was decided to openly voice our opinion about this. Given, this topic is one of extreme controversy, especially as of the last decade, which is understandable. What is not understandable, however, is the fact that people are getting away with the murder of a…