Moral Imperative of Refugee Education
Talent might be universal, but opportunity is not. Throughout my life, I have met numerous schoolchildren and university students who were enjoying their studies,...
Making your 80,000 hours impactful
You have about 80,000 working hours in your career: 40 years x 50 weeks x 40 hours. With so many hours dedicated to work,...
ChatGPT a wrong tool in wrong hands
Microsoft is reportedly delighted with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a natural-language artificial-intelligence program capable of generating text that reads as if a human wrote it. Taking...
Two trends that could save Britain
As if conditions were not gloomy enough in the United Kingdom, the International Monetary Fund recently downgraded the country’s growth forecast even as it...
Preempting a Generative AI Monopoly
ChatGPT, the new artificial-intelligence chatbot developed by the San Francisco-based research laboratory OpenAI, has taken the world by storm. Already hailed as a milestone...
Davos Man Has a People Problem
One of the most iconic images of our time shows a polar bear marooned and adrift on an ice floe. Few other images capture...
Alternatives for middle-income fossil-fuel exporters
The ongoing volatility in oil and gas markets has come as a shock to many people across the developed world. But its impact on...
Kuwaiti-British project to fight climate change
Kuwaiti scientists at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research joined their colleagues at the British Environment Center (CEFAS) to complete a new scientific project....
For the Common Good
After leaders of government, business, and civil society met at this year’s World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, the observation that we are living...
Energy Security, Energy Transition impacts Paris Agreement
The International Energy Agency (IEA) defines energy security as the continuous and uninterrupted availability of energy sources at an affordable price and on a...
