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| Jun 3, 2024 | Mexico awaits results in election likely to choose its first female prez | |
| Oct 28, 2021 | A Brief History of Online Influence Operations | The Wall Street Journal’s Facebook Files series resumed last week, revealing that the platform took action against an online campaign to set up a new right-wing “Patriot Party” after the Jan. 6 insurrection. Earlier this month news outlets ... |
| Jul 15, 2021 | The Media’s Climate Blindspot | 5 Mins Read
When climate coverage ignores the global South, it’s bad for everyone.
By: Saleemul Huq and Mark Hertsgaard
Climate change amounts to an undeclared, deeply unjust war against the global poor. Though they have emitted almost none... |
| Jun 24, 2021 | Why The Present And Future Of America’s Infrastructure Lies In Eastport, ME | Eastport, ME is the deepest port in the continental United States. It is the closest American port to Europe, and if climate change continues, maybe to Asia. It is where we can learn how to use the ocean as a renewable and reliable energy s... |
| Jun 22, 2021 | Disinformation, Annexation, & Deterrence: Why the CCP Is More Likely to Subvert Taiwan Than Invade | Introduction
Over the past year, Taiwan has been brought to the forefront as a pressing international relations issue. From its handling of the coronavirus pandemic to supporting pro-democracy movements in the region, Taiwanese President Ts... |
| Jun 10, 2021 | Statement: Developer cancels Keystone XL pipeline project | Controversial pipeline would have resulted in millions of tons of new carbon emissions
WASHINGTON -- TC Energy, the developer of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, has canceled the project. President Joe Biden revoked the project's per... |
| May 21, 2021 | Daily Crunch: Snap spends more than $500M to acquire AR display startup WaveOptics | To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here.
Welcome to Daily Crunch for May 21, 2021. Closing out the week, bitcoin dropped sharply today on (more?) ne... |
| Apr 18, 2021 | Belfast Tinderbox: Why Loyalists Are in the Streets This Spring | Editor’s Note: The violence that broke out in Northern Ireland earlier this month raised fears that sectarian conflict would return after decades of uneasy peace. American University’s Carolyn Gallaher and Kimberly Cowell-Meyers explain how... |
| Mar 5, 2021 | Meet Afghanistan's fearless Gen Z influencers, who are blowing up on TikTok and have more Instagram followers than the president | A group of women in Afghanistan are breaking through as Gen Z influencers on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube.
More Afghans are online, and dozens of Afghan women have 50,000 or more followers on at least one social platform.
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| Mar 5, 2021 | Meet Afghanistan’s fearless Gen Z influencers, who are blowing up on TikTok and have more Instagram followers than the president | Ayeda Shadab does a photo shoot at a scenic overlook in Herat, Afghanistan. Roya Heydari for Indider
A group of women in Afghanistan are breaking through as Gen Z influencers on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube.
More Afghans are online, and d... |
| Mar 3, 2021 | Embracing Foreign Affairs Federalism in a Post-Trump Era | Nearly a year into the coronavirus pandemic, it is hard to be optimistic about the future of global cooperation and the institutions that are supposed to support it. Absent major power leadership, anarchic tendencies have prevailed. The hum... |
| Mar 3, 2021 | With millions of vaccine doses, Russia is showing off a different kind of power in Latin America | Workers unload containers of Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine at the International Airport of El Alto, Bolivia, January 28, 2021. David Mercado/Reuters
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| Mar 3, 2021 | President Biden’s Immigration Executive Actions: A Recap | In his first weeks in office, President Biden issued several executive actions focused on reevaluating and unwinding the panoply of protectionist immigration policies former President Trump set in place through executive branch action. Some... |
| Feb 24, 2021 | 7 Podcasts To Keep News And Media Junkies Informed In 2021 | Competition is heating up among the major audio streamers to offer original, exclusive podcasts for ... [+] listeners. getty |
| Feb 5, 2021 | Deplatforming: How big tech censorship is trampling and subverting the First Amendment | Deplatforming, also known as no-platforming, is a form of political activism or prior restraint by an individual, group, or organization with the goal of shutting down controversial speakers or speech or denying them access to a venue in wh... |
| Feb 2, 2021 | This New Armed Drone Is A Milestone In Proliferation | The small nation of Georgia has just announced a locally made reconnaissance and strike drone, known as Project T-31, adding a new dimension to the country’s armed forces. The move is part of a long and at times farcical history of drones i... |
| Jan 24, 2021 | How The Philosophy Of Nintendo’s Game Boy Inventor Is Ripe For These Times | A Nintendo Game Boy handheld video game console, taken on July 13, 2016. (Photo by James ... [+] Sheppard/Future via Getty Images)Future via Getty Images |
| Jan 21, 2021 | We Need To Rethink Strategic Leadership | Why don’t women leaders do strategy? Asks Vivienne Porritt, the co-founder and Strategic Leader of WomenEd. Having just read Characterizing the Gap Between Strategy and Implementation, we converse on the sad fact, that with too many white m... |
| Jan 14, 2021 | Democrats are plotting the death — and rebirth — of a hamstrung Federal Election Commission now that they'll control the White House and both chambers of Congress | FEC Commissioner Ellen Weintraub speaks during the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee hearing on July 19, 2017 in Washington, DC. With just three members during most of the 2020 election, the commission lacked the quorum it need... |
| Dec 11, 2020 | The Rise And Fall Of Japan Over The Deadly Mauritius Oil Spill | The Wakashio ran aground on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius in July, triggering an oil spill ... [+] and ecological catastrophe that has become a largely Japanese affairAFP via Getty Images |
| Dec 6, 2020 | Rethinking Global Counterterrorist Financing | Editor’s Note: Assessments of efforts to counter terrorist financing often focus on how to stop groups like the Islamic State from getting contributions and otherwise drying up the money well. Jessica Davis, the president of Insight Threat ... |
| Nov 20, 2020 | US colleges report a 43% decline in new international student enrollment. It’s not just because of the pandemic | For the fourth year in a row, the number of international students enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities has declined. This is according to data released this month by the State Department and the Institute of International Education.
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| Oct 8, 2020 | U.S. Courts Halt Bans on Chinese Apps | Federal courts have stayed President Trump’s August orders for nationwide bans on two Chinese-owned apps—WeChat, the multipurpose app with more than a billion users worldwide, and TikTok, the video-sharing app that has gone viral among youn... |
| Sep 25, 2020 | The State Of Mass Surveillance | Co-Founder and CEO of Startpage, the world’s most private search engine. |
| Sep 7, 2020 | QAnon Conspiracy: Far Right Group Convince Thousands To Join Climate Denial Campaign | 1
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Back in December 2019, two conspiratorial worldviews collided as, for the first time, QAnon’s Q suggested his followers should question anew a topic that, by now, has been considered, and reconsidered,... |
| Aug 17, 2020 | WWF leads $1.5m investment in seaweed startup Ocean Rainforest | While reporting on the quest for sustainable seaweed last year, I alighted on the Faroe Islands, a remote archipelago in the North Atlantic. Here, I met the team at Ocean Rainforest, headed up by veteran Faroese ‘algae-preneur’ Olavur Grege... |
| Aug 17, 2020 | Experts Worry There's a More Infectious COVID Mutation Spreading in Malaysia and the Philippines | As progress continues on developing a possible COVID-19 vaccine, a strain of the new coronavirus that experts warn could be more infectious has been detected by health authorities in Malaysia and the Philippines.
While some parts of Asia ar... |
| Aug 13, 2020 | Some Chinese Cities Want to Limit the Amount of Food People Can Order at Restaurants | Saying that the coronavirus pandemic has “sounded the alarm” on issues surrounding food security, Chinese President Xi Jinping is challenging Chinese cities to propose creative solutions to avoid food waste.
According to Chinese state news ... |
| Aug 11, 2020 | Почему отключение интернета — катастрофа для Беларуси | Николай Чикишев 11 августа 2020, 08:32 Почему отключение интернета — катастрофа для Беларуси
Ограничения доступа к интернету растут во всем мире: чаще всего массовые отключения санкционированы правительствами. Во многих странах блокирование... |
| Jul 30, 2020 | Sexist and incomplete data hold back the world’s Covid-19 response | How many women have died of Covid-19?
How many women have lost their jobs in the economic crisis it created?
And how many have had to stop working because schools and day cares have closed and now have to take on unforeseen and added child ... |
| Jul 29, 2020 | Over a Billion Metric Tons of Plastic Could Take Over the World by 2040 | Plastic pollution has been found in almost every corner of the world, including the Arctic Ocean. If we don’t act now, a new study found that land and water bodies could be polluted with 1.3 billion metric tons of plastic by 2040.
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| Jul 26, 2020 | Should Congress Play a Role in Arms Sales? | Editor’s Note: The Trump administration’s proposal to end the informal practice of notifying Congress well in advance of major arms sales is a departure from long-standing norms and a means of decreasing congressional interference in contro... |
| Jul 20, 2020 | I Lost Some of My Genitalia at War. This Is How I Have Sex | This Is How We Do It
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On September 7, 2011, Aaron Causey, an explosive ordnance disposal expert with the United States Army, responded to a call about a suspicious item while on deployment in Afghani... |
| Jul 14, 2020 | Fauci’s strategy for effective public health advocacy: ‘You cannot be ideological’ | Public health and politics have always been intertwined. Think abortion and reproductive rights. One prominent public health official appears to have managed to untwine the two: Anthony Fauci.
During this time of Covid-19, health and medici... |
| Jun 23, 2020 | Scientists Remind Us That Single-Use Plastics Can Be Unsafe Amid a Pandemic | Much has been said about the unexpected positive environmental impacts of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
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| Jun 19, 2020 | Why Was Tear Gas Used to Quell American Protests? | In the wake of George Floyd’s death, a firestorm of protests has swept the United States. Some protests have been violent, though most have been peaceful. In cities around the country, curfews have been implemented as heavily armed police h... |
| Jun 11, 2020 | This Female Founder Is Challenging The Status Quo In The $200 Billion Global Coffee Industry | Maria Palacio is a 5th generation Colombian coffee farmer. She founded Progeny Coffee to directly tackle the issues that caused her father to lose his coffee farm years ago. She says, “I come from the coffee belt of Colombia, and my whole f... |
| May 16, 2020 | Six Places Where Oceans, Rivers And Marine Life Have Rebounded During The Coronavirus Pandemic | April 26 2020, Turkey: dolphin sightings have increased along the Bosphorus strait, where sea ... [+] traffic and fishing have come to a halt in Istanbul as the city of 16 million remained under lockdown since April.AFP via Getty Images |
| Apr 2, 2020 | High-Carbon Products Should Have Smoking-Style Health Warnings, Experts Say | 1
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A group of public health experts are urging authorities to use smoking-style graphic imagery on high-carbon products that are damaging to the climate, such as petrol pumps, plane tickets and energy bills. The warning l... |
| Mar 9, 2020 | I canceled my dream vacation to Bali because of the coronavirus outbreak - here's what convinced me to return to America, despite thinking I'm more likely to get sick in the US | Kate Taylor/Business Insider
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After more than a month of international travel, I cancelled my trip to Bali due to the coronavirus outbreak.
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| Feb 26, 2020 | I Lost Half My Penis to Cancer. This Is How I Have Sex | This Is How We Do It
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Not all men are born with penises. And the penis is not the center of every man’s gender identity or sexual life. Plenty of men get as much, if not more, pleasure out of prostat... |
| Jan 30, 2020 | 10 times Christian Bale drastically changed his appearance for roles | Entertainment 10 times Christian Bale drastically changed his appearance for roles
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| Jan 17, 2020 | Three Trends That Will Define The Next Decade Of Work | Photo:Getty |
| Dec 18, 2019 | A British doctor says 'America's been gaslit' about socialized medicine | Adam Kay.
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Adam Kay used to work for the National Health Service (NHS), the UK's national healthcare system.
Now a comedian, h's written a bestselling book about his time working as a baby-delivering doctor, called &qu... |
| Dec 2, 2019 | Assessing the Trump Administration’s Proposed Changes to the Small-Arms Export Regime | The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal 2020 is currently in House-Senate Conference Committee reconciliation negotiations. Among the several differences between the House and Senate versions is an amendment that could deci... |
| Aug 29, 2019 | Spotify Reportedly Developing ‘Create Podcast’ Button Right From Within The App | Carl Velasco, Tech Times 29 August 2019, 07:08 am
It could soon be a lot easier to start podcasts, thanks to Spotify's possibly upcoming feature. The music streaming service is apparently testing a way to make recording and broadcasting pod... |
| Jul 3, 2019 | Parsing the State Department’s Letter on the Use of Force Against Iran | Recent tensions between the United States and Iran have led many members of Congress to speculate about what legal authority the Trump administration may claim it has to go to war without congressional authorization. On June 28, the State D... |
| Apr 30, 2019 | 11 fascinating environmental protections and laws around the world | (Photo by Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)
As climate change and pollution become more severe, countries are enacting new legislation to protect the planet.
Many countries are banning single-use plastics; Kenya has implemented some of the ... |
| Apr 16, 2019 | What would it mean to eradicate the mosquito? | Paul Orlando Contributor
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| Apr 10, 2019 | Australia’s New Social Media Law Is a Mess | When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote on March 30 that the internet could use more regulation of “harmful content,” maybe he should have been more specific. Less than a week after Zuckerberg’s statement, Australia’s Parliament passed the ... |
| Apr 8, 2019 | How the Japanese girl-group AKB48 with 140 singers is conquering Asian pop | AKB48 and its franchise acts rely heavily on concert tickets, a commodity that can’t be streamed. Getty
The world's biggest pop group is the Tokyo-based pop ensemble with 110 to 140 singers, AKB48.
The group has solidified itself as a bona ... |
| Feb 21, 2019 | Big Food and Non-Profits Are Promoting Organic Conversion, So Why Aren’t There More Organic-Focused Technologies? | Organic grain production in the US is not growing fast enough, according to a new report from the US Organic Grain Collaboration in partnership with the Organic Trade Association.
The amount of US farmland devoted to the production of organ... |
| Dec 9, 2018 | Some things Jack Dorsey didn’t mention in his Myanmar meditation travelogue | Twitter co-founder and chief executive officer Jack Dorsey recently went on a birthday trip to Myanmar. As Dorsey recounted in a series of tweets to his 4.1 million followers, he studied Vipassana meditation. The practice’s “singular object... |
| Nov 18, 2018 | 14 of the smallest animals on Earth - including a tiny South Africa tortoise | The Etruscan shrew is among the tiniest animals on Earth.
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Humans are so small compared to some animals; next to creatures like elephants and whales, we seem minuscule. But on the other end of the spectrum are animals a who... |
| Nov 16, 2018 | 16 of the smallest animals on Earth | The Etruscan shrew is among the tiniest animals on Earth. Wikimedia Commons
Some of Earth's smallest animals measure just a few millimeters.
The pygmy seahorse, for example, can grow up to just 2 centimeters.
Here are 16 of the world's smal... |
| Oct 15, 2018 | What International Law Tells Us About the Khashoggi Investigation | Almost two weeks have passed since prominent Saudi dissident and journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappeared into Saudi Arabia’s consulate building in Istanbul, Turkey. While Saudi officials claim that he left the building shortly after arriving... |
| Sep 18, 2018 | Peter Thiel’s argument that Silicon Valley has been ‘brainwashed’ by higher education is tired | Billionaire VC Peter Thiel has largely flown under the radar since raising his hand to support Donald Trump’s presidential bid, then working with Trump’s administration to fill some of its many vacant positions. The association made him dee... |
| Aug 1, 2018 | Activists push back on Facebook’s decision to remove a DC protest event | A number of activists and organizers in the Washington, DC area are disputing Facebook’s decision to remove a counter-protest event for a rally organized by Jason Kessler, the white nationalist figure who planned the deadly 2017 rally in Ch... |
| Jul 26, 2018 | Japan's pinball gambling industry rakes in 30 times more cash than Las Vegas casinos | REUTERS/Issei Kato
A visitor plays pachinko at Dynam's pachinko parlour in Fuefuki, west of Tokyo June 19, 2014.
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Japan spends $200 billion on pachinko, a vertical pinball game, every year.
Despite a ban on most gambling, the i... |
| Jun 28, 2018 | The future of AI may be female, but it isn’t feminist | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Housed in a tall plastic cylinder, Amazon’s Alexa... |
| Jun 4, 2018 | Lobbying blitz by FirstEnergy as Trump mulled bailouts for coal and nuke plants | By Dave Anderson, The Energy and Policy Institute
A new filing in the bankruptcy case for FirstEnergy Solutions details how lobbyists at Akin Gump, Washington, DC’s top-earning lobbying firm, spent hundreds of hours in April working on a re... |
| Apr 26, 2018 | Why Were Members of Congress Asking Mark Zuckerberg About Myanmar? A Primer. | During Mark Zuckerberg’s 10-plus hours of testimony before Congress on April 10 and 11, the Facebook CEO was asked at least six times about his company’s alleged censorship of conservative internet personalities Diamond and Silk—to the poin... |
| Apr 24, 2018 | Rouhani just reminded Trump Iran can also pull out of international deals | Donald Trump would face “severe consequences” if he scrapped the international nuclear agreement with Iran, President Hassan Rouhani warned Tuesday.
“I am telling those in the White House that if they do not live up to their commitments, th... |
| Apr 3, 2018 | Hell and Marble: Inside South Korea's Skate Scene | Seoul is the only city I’ve ever encountered that has as many skate spots as skaters. A mere 35 miles from the DMZ, Seoul has thousands of smooth marble ledges with nothing but a bit of air pollution and the city's notorious dust standing i... |
| Mar 13, 2018 | UN says Facebook is accelerating ethnic violence in Myanmar | The United Nations has warned that Facebook’s platform is contributing to the spread of hate speech and ethnic violence in crisis-hit Myanmar.
It’s yet another black mark against social media at a time when the tech industry’s reputation as... |
| Dec 28, 2017 | Sexuality- and Gender-Based Crackdowns Under Egyptian Law | Homosexuality is not technically illegal in Egypt. But Egyptian authorities are cracking down on the LGBT community, its supporters, and advocates for social liberalization more broadly. In September, the Lebanese band Mashrou’ Leila played... |
| Dec 8, 2017 | India Embraces Full Net Neutrality As The U.S. Turns Its Back On The Concept | While the United States is busy giving the world a crash course on what telecom regulatory capture looks like, India is taking a decidedly different tack with net neutrality. Last year, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) began... |
| Nov 28, 2017 | The Conflict in Yemen: A Primer | Yemen is in the midst of an unfathomable humanitarian crisis. International organizations have warned that Yemenis will soon face the world’s largest famine in decades, brought on by a war that has ravaged the country for the past several y... |
| Nov 19, 2017 | Purearth: A Beauty Brand Rooted In Ethics & Sustainability, A Founder Fighting For Female Dignity | 4 2
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| Sep 29, 2017 | Calamity shows how Jones Act could harm Hawaii, critics say | COURTESY PHOTO
“Waiving the Jones Act has focused attention on the challenges of delivering critical, lifesaving supplies already in Puerto Rico to people in desperate need of them.”
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| Sep 18, 2017 | Metacert to launch cryptocurrency wallet phishing protection for Slack | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Sep 18, 2017 | Metacert to launch cryptocurrency wallet phishing protection for Slack | Security bot Metacert, which protects against cryptocurrency phishing in chat apps like Slack, will soon be able to scan for, and flag, malicious cryptocurrency wallet addresses. The new feature will be available in early October, along wit... |
| Sep 3, 2017 | The New Rules of Monarchy in the Gulf | Editor’s Note: Political and policy change in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states used to proceed at a glacial pace. No more. Gulf states are quarreling with each other and intervening right and left in the Arab world. Kristin Diwan of the A... |
| Aug 15, 2017 | China halts North Korea seafood imports | China decided to stop seafood imports – along with iron and iron ore – from North Korea on Monday, 14 August.
The Chinese government had pledged to fully enforce the recent United Nations sanctions against North Korea that include halting p... |
| Jul 26, 2017 | The Fight for Equal Media Representation Puts Power in Hands of the Fans | Growing up a nerd of color, you're not just imagining yourself saving cities or exploring enchanted ruins; it often takes just as much creativity to envision yourself in those worlds at all. As a tween, I had a nearly encyclopedic knowledge... |
| Mar 3, 2017 | Intelligence Officers Won’t Exit En Masse During the Trump Administration | Former intelligence analyst Edward Price dramatically resigned from CIA last week in an op-ed in the Washington Post—complete with a video critique that has gone viral on social media. Is Mr. Price’s departure the first crack in a dam of in... |
| Feb 25, 2017 | How blockchains could save us from another Flint-like contamination crisis | After the city of Flint, Michigan, temporarily switched water sources in 2014, residents began to develop unusual medical conditions. The city later learned the water was contaminated with high levels of lead and other toxins. Flint has a p... |
| Feb 25, 2017 | How blockchains could save us from another Flint-like contamination crisis | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
After the city of Flint, Michigan, temporarily sw... |
| Feb 20, 2017 | Trump in 30 Seconds Archive Nov. 2016 – Jan. 31, 2017 | advertisement
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Pharma executives met with President Trump this morning to talk drug pricing, and he vowed to make it easier for smaller companies to compete. Trump also said he would streamline the drug ap... |
| Feb 15, 2017 | Uber Is Having a Terrible Week In Brazil | Uber’s Brazilian business is having a terrible week. And it’s only Wednesday.
On Monday, Brazilian Judge Marcio Toledo Gonçalves ruled that Uber drivers are employees who are entitled to workers’ benefits. Gonçalves ordered the tech giant t... |
| Nov 18, 2016 | Water Wars: Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones | Abe takes the stage
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets President-Elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower (Photo: Reuters)
As Donald Trump’s election prompts many to reconsider the Asia-Pacific’s future, Japanese Prime Minister Abe has emerged as bal... |
| Oct 31, 2016 | For Blockchain Startups, Switzerland's 'Crypto Valley' is No New York | zug, switzerland
A tiny province in Switzerland is proving such a magnet for blockchain startups that it's increasingly being compared to California's famed Silicon Valley.
The 30-kilometer stretch of land from Zurich to Zug, known as 'Cryp... |
| Oct 27, 2016 | Matter of degree: Politicians seem to have a problem with dishonest credentials | Maybe it’s the technocrat in us, but there’s something reassuring about a politician with an advanced degree. Beyond the mere credential, having a doctorate or a master’s suggests the ability to dig deep into a subject, a bent toward critic... |
| Sep 27, 2016 | Middle East Ticker: Complicated U.S. Diplomacy in Fight Against ISIS | Complicated Diplomacy Ahead of Offensive Against Islamic State Strongholds
U.S. officials are preparing for the coming battles to retake the Islamic State’s largest remaining strongholds, Mosul, Iraq, and Raqqa, Syria. Shaping operations co... |
| Sep 19, 2016 | News Media Is Overwhelmingly White: How to Fix It | On Friday, an important discussion about inclusion happened during a keynote and panel at the annual conference for the Online News Association (#ONA16keynote). It was a specific challenge to newsrooms across the country to address their di... |
| Aug 31, 2016 | Liberia’s Land Law Could Protect Forests, People and the Climate | Depending on the season, the journey to Rivercess County requires either bumping along dirt paths or navigating endless stretches of mud. In the heart of Liberia the dense tropical forests, some of the last intact in West Africa, are omnipr... |
| Aug 12, 2016 | The Law Under Attack in Pakistan | Earlier this week, a suicide bomber outside a crowded hospital in Quetta, Pakistan killed at least 74 people, most of them judges or lawyers, and wounded dozens more. Yesterday, another blast in Quetta wounded an additional 13 people. The p... |
| Aug 1, 2016 | Zika in 30 Seconds: Archives (Feb – April) | Friday, April 29 The big news right now
The Senate left for recess without wrapping up a Zika funding deal (the Atlantic)
Quest Diagnostics says it has received emergency authorization from the FDA to sell its Zika virus test (Reuters)
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| Jul 15, 2016 | Dodging Stray Bullets in Lebanon With The World’s First Bulletproof Headscarf | Beirut fire sergeant Wissam Bleik was killed by a stray bullet during the Beirut municipal elections in May. He was a victim of celebratory gunfire, which usually follows political speeches in Lebanon.
Lebanese authorities are struggling to... |
| Jul 1, 2016 | 25 of the most mind-boggling natural phenomena on Earth | An unusual lake in Canada. Justin Raycraft/Flickr
From Pele's hair to kaleidoscopic clouds, our planet is filled with unbelievable natural phenomena.
You have to be at the right place at the right time to witness many of these events.
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| Jun 28, 2016 | The 'Woj' Joins Next-Gen Science Startup, Planet3 | Lots of students recount how a favorite teacher helped them find a job. More surprising is when a student--even a former student--nudges a teacher to a new job.
Then again, just about everything that Palo Alto High School teacher and author... |
| Jun 1, 2016 | China attempts to reinforce real-name registration for Internet users | China is renewing its efforts to get all people who sign up for a mobile number to use their real names. According to state-run news agency China News Service (link via Google Translate), the government has declared that everyone who buys a... |
| May 20, 2016 | This Is How Bad Venezuela’s Food Shortage Has Become | Venezuela is in a state of crisis. The South American country, which has the largest oil reserves on the planet, is currently locked in the disastrous feedback loop of printing more money to keep up with rising prices, which, in turn, is ch... |
| Dec 29, 2015 | Can we ‘cure’ aging? Scientists disagree | Aging happens to all of us, and is generally thought of as a natural part of life. It would seem silly to call such a thing a “disease.”
On the other hand, scientists are increasingly learning that aging and biological age are two different... |
| Sep 12, 2015 | An ISS astronaut is doing a Facebook Q&A and the questions suck | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Feb 11, 2015 | If you’re going to Pyongyang, be sure to check out the foreigner-only Wi-Fi | Lawrence Wang reader comments 70 with 48 posters participating
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| Aug 16, 2014 | From bros to the supernatural: Ars editors’ favorite podcasts | Bent Kure reader comments 70 with 60 posters participating
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| Jun 14, 2014 | Seoul’s Sprouting Startup Scene | Sebastien Park Contributor
Editor’s note: Sebastien Park is an associate at Collaborative Fund.
A couple of years ago, a list of the world’s top startup ecosystems compared cities like Berlin, Tel Aviv, and London to get at what made startu... |
| May 14, 2014 | The Three Big Lies: How The Federal Government Kept Its Post-9/11 Spying On Americans A Secret | Last night, the first episode of Frontline’s United States of Secrets aired, going deep into the history of “The Program,” which is what the Bush (really Cheney) White House referred to the NSA program to spy on Americans based on incredibl... |