Technology

I, Smartphone – The Stream

Make mine a cup of praseodymium with a terbium or two on the side, please. Make it snappy! Beautiful blue cobalt, a ferromagnetic metal with atomic number 27, is inside your smartphone, too. Presently, almost all of it comes from the African…

Selective Sustainability – The Stream

Alarm bells are ringing across the welfare states of Europe. Or to put it another way, the long-term chickens are coming home to roost in the short-term. British economist and charlatan John Maynard Keynes once smugly declared, “In the long run,…