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BIG Media Ltd. BIG Media, is a unique platform that presents an alternative style of journalism and member engagement. We are not affiliated with any political party.

We're dedicated to presenting facts, accurate data, logical interpretation and truth. Meet the BIG Media Team:
Rob Driscoll: Founder and President Laurie Weston: Co-Founder, Scientific Strategist and Interpretation Specialist
Brendan Rolfe: Contributor/Editor/Moderator,
Kevin Burron: Counsel and Strategist
Read more about the team here: https://big-media.ca/the-big-team/

BIG Media Ltd's Nairobi-based storyteller George Mutero helps us understand how Caribbean island nation Haiti became a q...
15/10/2025

BIG Media Ltd's Nairobi-based storyteller George Mutero helps us understand how Caribbean island nation Haiti became a quagmire of chaos and corruption. Hint: it has a LOT to do with foreign interference.






Since 2020, Haiti has not had a functioning parliament or elected officials, and leader after failed leader, no lasting solution has been found. The most populous country in the Caribbean (11.4 million), Haiti has been disintegrating to anarchy, a failed state where criminal gangs reign. The last ho...

Doctor of geology/entrepreneur/educator Brad Hayes brings us up to speed on the different ways to capture carbon and the...
08/10/2025

Doctor of geology/entrepreneur/educator Brad Hayes brings us up to speed on the different ways to capture carbon and the progress of each path.

An excerpt from the article linked below:

" Every industrial project involves risk. Excluding massive industrial potential on simplistic criteria is little more than justification for NIMBY (not in my backyard) or BANANA (build absolutely nothing anywhere near anyone) political positions.

Realistically, a critical step in planning any industrial project is risk assessment and mitigation planning by qualified experts. One can be sure that if a project is proposed close to urban centres, in deep waters, in very deep reservoirs – or under any other challenging circumstances – that the risks specific to that project will be assessed and dealt with appropriately. If the risks are deemed too great, the project will not proceed. "







Last year on BIG Media’s site, I talked about CCUS – carbon capture, utilization and storage. It is the process of extracting carbon dioxide (CO2) from smokestacks, refineries, cement plants, biofuel facilities, and other human-made sources, then using it to make new products, or storing it perm...

Doctor of physical chemistry Joseph Fournier's foray into our fields and forests facilitates familiarity with fascinatin...
07/10/2025

Doctor of physical chemistry Joseph Fournier's foray into our fields and forests facilitates familiarity with fascinating facts affiliated with a high-profile herbicide.






Picture a vast wheat field under a clear sky, where a farmer in a tractor cabin releases from a large herbicide sprayer implement a fine mist of Roundup. It is harvesting time, and glyphosate – the active ingredient in Bayer’s (formerly Monsanto’s) blockbuster herbicide –doesn’t just kill ...

In the first of a two-part examination of Angola's steep challenges in rolling back fuel subsidies, Dr. Kaase Gbakon giv...
02/10/2025

In the first of a two-part examination of Angola's steep challenges in rolling back fuel subsidies, Dr. Kaase Gbakon gives us the key numbers and critical context.







Key takeaways Angola spends more on fuel subsidies than on health or education, with $3.8 billion in 2022 alone. The government has compressed IMF’s six-year plan into just two years, heightening social and political risks. Despite being Africa’s second-largest oil producer, Angola imports 70% o...

Richard LeBlanc provides a compelling case for shifting our focus on ocean plastic upstream ...
25/09/2025

Richard LeBlanc provides a compelling case for shifting our focus on ocean plastic upstream ...






China’s Yangtze River system dumps an estimated 330,000 tonnes of plastic into the ocean each year. The Ganges River network in India transports about 120,000 tonnes of plastic to the sea annually. The Pasig River in the Philippines carries roughly 63,000 tonnes of plastic per year to the ocean. T...

From Mark Jennings-Bates' latest piece on the truth about artificial intelligence:" To understand why AI systems are opa...
24/09/2025

From Mark Jennings-Bates' latest piece on the truth about artificial intelligence:

" To understand why AI systems are opaque, we need to examine how modern machine learning actually works. Unlike traditional software, which follows explicit rules programmed by humans, AI systems learn patterns from data through processes that are fundamentally statistical rather than logical.

Consider a deep neural network – the architecture underlying most contemporary AI applications. These systems contain millions or billions of parameters, each representing mathematical relationships learned from training data. When data is put into the system, it flows through multiple layers of interconnected nodes, with each layer performing complex mathematical transformations.

The problem is that these transformations, while mathematically precise, do not correspond to concepts that are understandable to humans. A loan-approval AI might base its decision on thousands of subtle correlations between applicant characteristics, but these correlations may not translate into explanations that humans can comprehend or validate.

Recent research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology illustrates this challenge starkly. Researchers studied a state-of-the-art AI system used for medical image analysis and found that even when the system made correct diagnoses, the reasoning process involved interactions between millions of parameters in ways that defied human interpretation.

The complexity is not accidental – it is often the source of AI’s power. The ability to identify non-obvious patterns and subtle correlations that humans might miss is precisely what makes AI valuable. But this same capability makes AI decisions inherently difficult to explain in terms that humans can understand and validate. "





In 2019, a major healthcare system implemented an AI tool to help doctors identify patients at risk of sepsis – a condition that kills more than 250,000 Americans annually. The system analyzed patient data and flagged high-risk cases with impressive accuracy during testing. But when doctors tried ...

Kirsten Campbell, the newest member of the BIG Media editorial team, brings us up to speed on what semiconductors are al...
23/09/2025

Kirsten Campbell, the newest member of the BIG Media editorial team, brings us up to speed on what semiconductors are all about and how global trade is evolving.







When you doomscroll on your phone, use the washing machine, fly in an airplane, activate the anti-lock brakes in your car, switch on the air-conditioner or watch television – you are using semiconductors. So, what the heck is a semiconductor? It is the material used as building blocks to create th...

Reaction to the murder of Charlie Kirk is just the latest piece of a puzzling descent into a society of psychopathy.
12/09/2025

Reaction to the murder of Charlie Kirk is just the latest piece of a puzzling descent into a society of psychopathy.



Psychopathy, or psychopathic personality, is a personality construct characterized by impaired empathy and remorse, persistent antisocial behavior, along with bold, disinhibited, and egocentric traits. These traits are often masked by superficial charm and immunity to stress, which create an outward...

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