In my day, being young was dominated by three basics: sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll. Boy, that world has changed. Seems like our kids aren’t having much sex these days. Drugs? Yes, mostly of the prescribed type.

The Irish Central Statistics Office confirms Irish deaths abroad are not included in their mortality figures. This is important considering the 50 percent increase since 2019 and the apparent age profile of the dead

The road out of my hometown in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu runs between rows of wind turbines. For most of my life I treated them as scenery, admiring them as a technical marvel

Federal agencies warned on Nov. 5 that hackers are targeting refrigeration systems used to store food and medicine, urging businesses to secure vulnerable controls amid attacks that could spoil supplies and damage equipment.

From a scientific metaphor in a prestigious journal to a rallying cry among climate sceptics, the expression ‘climate control knob’ has acquired a significance far beyond its original scientific context.

You call the Coast Guard for a medevac out on the water. You are told, “Ten minutes ETA,” provided its helicopter can “make way of the wind farm.” Huh?

Today marks the start of the COP31 United Nations’ climate summit. Delegates from nearly 200 nations will gather in Antalya, Turkey, for two weeks, to decide how to ‘save the planet’. Again

At the recent Catch the Energy conference in Calgary, over 1,000 high-net worth investors, energy executives, and financial analysts gathered to hear the authoritative Josef Schachter give his views on the global macro-oil and gas picture.

Something strange is happening within one of America’s most secular, highly educated, and technologically sophisticated communities

 

In March 1974, the women of a Himalayan village walked into the forest and wrapped their arms around the trees that loggers had come to fell. Fifty years later, we live in a different world. Activists and politicians now clear forests, fence off farmland, and kill wildlife, all under the banner of “going green.”

This is about a book that presents fourteen essays that Professor Robert Clancy published in Quadrant between January 2021 and June 2026

Twenty years ago The Stern Review projected rapidly escalating disaster losses. Surprise, surprise, it didn’t happen

A disturbing new study conducted by the European Cockpit Association (ECA) found that nearly one in four European airline pilots routinely take to the skies despite being too exhausted to safely perform their duties

A German doctor who rose to prominence for his criticism of Covid measures has been arrested in Berlin for “insulting” Berlin’s Mayor over his links to a convicted paedophile drag queen

The statistics relating to medical treatment are pretty well known by now. Back in the 1970s it was known that around half of all patients given drugs suffer serious or potentially serious side effects.

Imagine hiring an expert mechanic who tells you your engine needs a new transmission. You question him, and he admits he never examined the transmission. Then he changes his diagnosis, announces that he was wrong, and presents you with another expensive repair bill.