Historical Explainer

As many of you probably already know, the FIFA World Cup took place over the summer, with Spain lifting the trophy. And many of you who do pub quizzes probably know that the first one was held in 1930 in Uruguay with Uruguay winning. But for this article, I wanted to move away from these basic facts of the sport and look more into why a country would want to host this major event. It has historically cost countries billions to host the World Cup for little gains. Robert A. Ba

In the wake of yet another deadly outbreak of Ebola virus throughout Central Africa, with roughly 2,500 cases and 1,000 confirmed deaths, the systematic failures of much modern African infrastructure are clear. Since 1976, when the virus was first discovered, there have been approximately twenty-five outbreaks of Ebola, with fatality rates ranging from 25%, to as high as 90%, however, Western Africa’s 2014 to 2016 outbreak took more lives than all its other epidemics combined