“Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where w...
Greenland is an island mired in inconsistencies and ironies. It is named after a color, yet its tundra is a bleak white. It is the largest island in the world, a landmass three times the size of Texas, yet only 60,000 people call it home. While gigan...
When Americans are presented with the word “coca,” their mind likely jumps to cocaine. In fact, the two are often conflated as one and the same: a dangerous drug banned by law and whose production and sale are subject to intense criminal regulati...
In the face of a “labor shortage” that has seen workers quitting or refusing to return to low-paying jobs, many restaurants in the United States are now recruiting teenagers. A McDonald’s in Oregon made headlines when it put up a sign announcin...
In the face of a “labor shortage” that has seen workers quitting or refusing to return to low-paying jobs, many restaurants in the United States are now recruiting teenagers. A McDonald’s in Oregon made headlines when it put up a sign announcin...
In seconds, everything changed. A city buzzing with mundane early-evening traffic came to a standstill as 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate exploded into a rust-colored plume over Beirut on August 4, 2020. One of the largest non-nuclear explosions in ...
In seconds, everything changed. A city buzzing with mundane early-evening traffic came to a standstill as 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate exploded into a rust-colored plume over Beirut on August 4, 2020. One of the largest non-nuclear explosions in ...
For the first time in Chilean history, an Indigenous Mapuche woman, Elisa Loncon, is leading the country’s constitutional transformation after massive anti-government protests in 2019—incited by long-standing inequality and rising costs of living...
For the first time in Chilean history, an Indigenous Mapuche woman, Elisa Loncon, is leading the country’s constitutional transformation after massive anti-government protests in 2019—incited by long-standing inequality and rising costs of living...
Every year since 1976, ten of Southeast Asia’s top leaders have come together at the main summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), hoping to address the region’s most pressing policy issues. But, before this year’s gatherin...
Every year since 1976, ten of Southeast Asia’s top leaders have come together at the main summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), hoping to address the region’s most pressing policy issues. But, before this year’s gatherin...
China-Taiwan relations are at their “worst in 40 years.” There are “confirmed US troops in Taiwan.” And 150 mainland aircrafts entered Taiwan’s air defense identification zone in four days… The continuous rise of hosti...
China-Taiwan relations are at their “worst in 40 years.” There are “confirmed US troops in Taiwan.” And 150 mainland aircrafts entered Taiwan’s air defense identification zone in four days… The continuous rise of hosti...
“In the near future, climate modification will become necessary to maintain current climatic conditions,” wrote Soviet scientist Mikhail Budyko in 1974, responding to rising CO2 levels. In the decades following Budyko’s prediction, humanity has...
“In the near future, climate modification will become necessary to maintain current climatic conditions,” wrote Soviet scientist Mikhail Budyko in 1974, responding to rising CO2 levels. In the decades following Budyko’s prediction, humanity has...
Education perils in unexpected emergencies. After the last eighteen months under a global pandemic, seemingly every nation has come to that inescapable conclusion. As wealthy countries take stock of the flaws exposed in their education systems, it’...
Education perils in unexpected emergencies. After the last eighteen months under a global pandemic, seemingly every nation has come to that inescapable conclusion. As wealthy countries take stock of the flaws exposed in their education systems, it’...
In the United States, the arrival of late autumn means just one thing for your taste palate: Here comes the pumpkin. With pumpkin muffins, pumpkin pies, pumpkin breads, pumpkin spice lattes, and even pumpkin cannolis, the fruit is found just about ev...
In the United States, the arrival of late autumn means just one thing for your taste palate: Here comes the pumpkin. With pumpkin muffins, pumpkin pies, pumpkin breads, pumpkin spice lattes, and even pumpkin cannolis, the fruit is found just about ev...
In 2019, a Business Insider article noted the visible difference between yellow streetlights in eastern Berlin and the fluorescent, whiter bulbs in the West. In other words, the divide between East and West Berlin is still noticeable over 30 years af...
In 2019, a Business Insider article noted the visible difference between yellow streetlights in eastern Berlin and the fluorescent, whiter bulbs in the West. In other words, the divide between East and West Berlin is still noticeable over 30 years af...
“The principal defect of the industrial way of life,” wrote a group of British environmental scientists in 1972 for The Ecologist, “is that it is not sustainable. Its termination within the lifetime of someone born today is inevitable—unless ...
“The principal defect of the industrial way of life,” wrote a group of British environmental scientists in 1972 for The Ecologist, “is that it is not sustainable. Its termination within the lifetime of someone born today is inevitable—unless ...
Choi Young-soo works as a 35-year-old part-time food delivery driver in South Korea. However, he wasn’t always condemned to working a low-wage job for long hours. He previously worked as an IT engineer until he decided that the extreme stress of hi...
Choi Young-soo works as a 35-year-old part-time food delivery driver in South Korea. However, he wasn’t always condemned to working a low-wage job for long hours. He previously worked as an IT engineer until he decided that the extreme stress of hi...
The future of multilateralism hangs in the balance. At least, that was the thought running through then-CEO of the World Bank Kristalina Georgieva’s mind as she presided over a precarious capital increase campaign from mid-2017 to April 2018. Key s...
The future of multilateralism hangs in the balance. At least, that was the thought running through then-CEO of the World Bank Kristalina Georgieva’s mind as she presided over a precarious capital increase campaign from mid-2017 to April 2018. Key s...