Stephen Hawking’s final theory on black holes has been published, …
2018年10月22日 · The new research explains how at least some information could be preserved once a black hole disappears. As an object enters a black hole, the temperature increases and raises the entropy level – a measure of an object’s internal disorder. A sheen of photons surrounding a black hole’s event horizon – the point at which light cannot ...
What is critical race theory? | World Economic Forum
2022年2月10日 · Most critically, in these racially charged times we live in today, critical race theory recognizes that racism is not a relic of the past. It acknowledges that the legacy of slavery, segregation, and the imposition of second-class citizenship on Black Americans and other people of colour, continues to permeate the social fabric of American society.
The Black Lives Matter movement explained | World Economic …
2016年8月11日 · The movement was born in 2013, after the man who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin, was cleared of his murder. A Californian activist, Alicia Garza, responded to the jury’s decision on Facebook with a post that ended: “Black people. I love you. I love us. Our lives matter.”
Meet the doughnut: the new economic model that could help end ...
2017年4月28日 · The hole at the Doughnut’s centre reveals the proportion of people worldwide falling short on life’s essentials, such as food, water, healthcare and political freedom of expression – and a big part of humanity’s challenge is to get everyone out of that hole.
What is servitization, and how can it help save the planet?
2020年11月20日 · With a servitization model, the customer pays a fixed fee per unit of service consumed, while the ownership of the system remains with the technology provider, who remains responsible for all operation costs.
This data shows the racial gap in access to education in the US
2020年10月16日 · It notes that in the US, Black and Hispanic children’s parents typically have lower incomes and levels of educational attainment than those of white children. Other factors, such as patterns of residential and school segregation and a state’s educational and social policies, could also have a role in the size of achievement gaps.
7 things you didn’t know about CERN and the strange world of …
2016年9月7日 · The Higgs Boson is unlikely to prove or disprove the existence of God, but it does help to cement the Standard Model: a physics theory developed in the 60s, which outlines the building blocks of matter and the forces that govern them. The Higgs Boson was one of the missing pieces holding the picture together.
Black History Month: Key events in a decade of Black Lives Matter
2022年2月16日 · Black teenager Michael Brown was shot dead by a white police officer in August in Ferguson, Missouri. The deaths sparked rapid nationwide growth of the Black Lives Matter movement, with a Freedom Ride organized to Ferguson and …
Why is Einstein famous? | World Economic Forum
2015年11月26日 · The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. Incorporated as a not-for-profit foundation in 1971, and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the Forum is tied to no …
What is the Paris Agreement? Everything you need to know
2020年11月11日 · Ahead of COP27, the world's focus has turned firmly to global efforts to tackle climate change. One of the cornerstones of that effort is the Paris Agreement.