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Trinidad and Tobago on a shoestring: Backpacker’s guide to summer 2025

Backpackers guide: Caribbean travel for less – Trinidad & Tobago summer 2025.

A budget-friendly Caribbean escape Trinidad and Tobago remains one of the Caribbean’s most diverse, culturally vibrant, and underexplored destinations. Unlike other island nations where luxury resorts dominate the landscape, this twin-island republic offers an authentic experience for backpackers seeking adventure, nature, and affordability. If you’re looking to enjoy the Caribbean …

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Why NASA and Elon Musk don’t talk about Biosphere 2 when hyping Mars

What Biosphere 2 can teach Elon Musk about failing on Mars.

Mars has captured human imagination for generations, promising a new frontier and a potential second home for our species. Yet the journey to colonise Mars entails more than rocket science and ambition—it demands a profound understanding of closed ecological systems, life‑support engineering and human psychology under extreme isolation. The ill‑fated …

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The risks of an everything app: Why centralised digital power is a threat to individual and societal security

Everything app security risks: Why putting your whole life in one app could backfire.

In an era of digital convenience, the idea of an “everything app” has seduced millions. Elon Musk’s ambition to transform X (formerly Twitter) into an all-in-one platform is not without precedent. In China, Alibaba’s Alipay already functions as the model for such integration, enabling users to manage finances, shop, book …

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