Teching Sex Up a Notch
Sextech is a growing global market; including technology for sex education, sex robots, AI vibrators, and apps which can help to keep sex workers safe. Kirstin investigates the useful, unusual, and the unsettling developments.
Category: Social Sciences
Introducing theGIST Junior: British Science Week 2019
Some GISTers attended Gavinburn Primary School as part of British Science Week, resulting in some brilliant Junior articles. Read them here:
Three Trendy Fallacies of Conscious Consumerism
Victoria Smith discusses three ways we may be harming the environment in our eco-friendly efforts, and how we can alter our actions to help instead.
Is it Time to Open Up to Open Data?
Open data is already impacting the way we do research. But many people are not aware of what open data is or the impact this could have on research. Kirstin Leslie investigates.
The Age of Unenlightenment
In the age of fake news and distorted truth, Maisie Keogh investigates how we can burst the filter bubble and begin to think critically about the news we read.
Why Private Equity Firms Won’t Stop Dancing
The author examines the current private equity market and asks whether or not technological advancements could improve the industry.
Identity Crisis
Luke Prentice addresses the concerns regarding new non-consensual identification technology and the potential it may have on our day-to-day lives.
A Scientist’s Carbon Footprint
Kym Bain explores the role that scientists and their labs play in being kind to our planet
