Articles by lux-editor

9th June 2020

The brothels in Belgium are allowed to open again, but no sex without a mask

Saunas and massage parlors will remain closed until July 1, but the brothels may open again in Belgium today. A visit to the sex houses will take some getting used to for the customers. Upon entering, the temperature of the customer is measured and the wearing of a mask is mandatory for both visitor and hostess / [...]

9th June 2020

Small entrepreneurs fear massive money shortage due to corona crisis. “But the resilience is great”

Eighty percent of Dutch small businesses expect to be on black seed within six months and therefore no longer be able to pay their bills (on time). One fifth even has an acute liquidity shortage. This is evident from research by the online financing platform [...]

1st June 2020

Facebook employees rebel over Mark Zuckerberg’s refusal to act against Trump

Facebook employees are staging a rebellion over Mark Zuckerberg’s refusal to act against Donald Trump, expressing their dissatisfaction with their boss on social media in a rare display of dissent from within the [...]

1st June 2020

China says its growth goals are declining. This may be good news for the world.

For years, GDP growth targets have been the be-all and end-all of China’s economy. They were the imperfect but convenient measure of economic expansion and prosperity, the ultimate economic objective for the central government, and the yardstick of achievement for local [...]

1st June 2020

How libertarian law plans to capitalize on a pandemic

When coronavirus crept across the world in early February, talk of how different nations were dealing with the virus came to resemble the Olympics for state capacity. Which country had the authority, the supplies and the expertise to “crush the curve”? A balance sheet of national progress marked out a bleak race [...]

28th May 2020

Corona crisis forces more people to receive social assistance

At the end of March, the Netherlands had 413,000 people on social assistance benefits. As a result, the number of people who used the safety net on a monthly basis increased by approximately one thousand. The applications for self-employed persons in particular increased. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics [...]

28th May 2020

EU promises coronavirus recovery plan won’t harm climate goals

Senior officials have pledged that the European Union’s recovery plan will “do no harm” to the bloc’s landmark goals to tackle the climate crisis and threats to the natural [...]

27th May 2020

Public health is trust – something that Cummings deliberately ignored

Thirty-five years ago, when I was working as a newly qualified doctor, I extracted a sausage from a woman’s windpipe. She was, in the eyes of the ambulance crew who brought her in, probably beyond saving, possibly already dead. The woman had inhaled the sausage while laughing at a joke she’d been telling her [...]

20th May 2020

Amfan Super Cyclone hits the coast of India and Bangladesh

The Bay of Bengal’s fiercest storm this century, super-cyclone Amphan, slammed into the coast of eastern India and Bangladesh on Wednesday afternoon, bringing heavy gales and the threat of deadly storm surges and [...]

20th May 2020

Scientists say that climate change makes some parts of Antarctica in green

Scientists have created the first large-scale map of microscopic algae on the Antarctic peninsula as they bloom across the surface of the melting snow, tinting the surface green and potentially creating a source of nutrition for other [...]

« 1 2 3 4 5 … 396 »