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Space tourism is an elitist vanity project

Last week was an unfortunate one for space travel. Two crashes took place, one of which was a failed Orbital Sciences contract mission, and the other a Virgin Galactic spacecraft, which crashed shortly after lift-off, killing one of its test pilots. Tragic, and disheartening to space enthusiasts everywhere, these incidents resurrected the long-standing debate about […]

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Egg freezing is not an empowering perk

Last week, the Silicon Valley giants Facebook and Apple announced that they were to add ‘egg freezing’ to their list of company benefits for female employees. The goal? To attract and retain more female employees in its US offices. Sadly, Apple and Facebook are unaware that what was intended as an empowering perk is, in […]