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Saturday 19/November/2016 14:32 PM

Globalization’s last gasp

Does Donald Trump’s election as United States president mean that globalization is dead, or are reports of the process’ demise greatly exaggerated? If...

Saturday 19/November/2016 14:17 PM

Mother nature vs. climate change

Wetlands, forests, and oceans absorb and store carbon, which makes them a vital asset for countries pursuing the Paris climate agreement’s targets for...

Wednesday 16/November/2016 21:59 PM

Fake news Facebook

Times of Oman designers depict a world around them through illustrations everyday, either to enhance the visual elements of a story or as a standalone...

Wednesday 16/November/2016 14:51 PM

Antibiotics that work

From the discovery of penicillin in 1928 to the introduction of the last of the main groups of antibiotics in the 1960s, humanity’s capacity to fight...

Wednesday 16/November/2016 14:25 PM

Donald Trump’s brave new world

“What we love will ruin us,” predicted Aldous Huxley in 1932. In Brave New World, he described a human race that, by 2540, has been destroyed by...

Wednesday 16/November/2016 13:59 PM

The myth of the women’s vote

Among the clichés that deserve to be thrown out after the recent presidential election in the United States is the idea of a “women’s vote.” It may...

Tuesday 15/November/2016 17:13 PM

Financing the climate-change transition

Unless the world reduces greenhouse-gas emissions rapidly, humanity is likely to enter an era of unprecedented climate risks. Devastating extreme-weather...

Tuesday 15/November/2016 17:05 PM

China's rising prices are a sign of trouble

By December 2015, China had endured four years of declining producer prices. Coal was down 38 per cent on the year, and steel down 31 per cent. That month,...