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Asia’s financial catch-up
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South Africa’s new dawn
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America’s renewed friendship with Saudi Arabia
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Is Wikipedia the Red Cross of the Infocalypse?
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Big Tech and the healthcare system
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China’s regional capitals
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Uncovering the mystery of sleep
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The U.S. trade war and the Asia-Pacific region
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Safety or privacy?
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Never waste a good waste crisis
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The rise of digital conglomerates
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Eco-conscious apparel is next in line to become hip
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A solid but sober EU
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The future of social media
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Are tech companies the next SIFI’s?
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When fake becomes the new normal
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Beyond stereotypes of social class
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VR: a disruptive tool for changing behavior
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Imagining an African renaissance
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Italy’s new old politics
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Mapping economic complexity
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The return of hermeneutics
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The decline of face value
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Educating vital skills for the future
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Hegemonic Shift in 2017
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Maritime Arabia
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An Indo-Japanese partnership
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Generational amnesia
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Olympic hangovers
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Making America a 20th-century economy again?
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Beyond planetary boundaries: towards Earth systems justice
Linking new developments in Earth systems research to the Deep Transitions Framework
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Has AI become indistinguishable from life itself?
Developments in AI lead to new speculations about the role of technologies in the evolution of life.
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Urban greening should focus on equity, not nature
The external valuation of nature in city planning could withhold green areas from becoming accessible to all
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Learning to waste
All manufacturing produces waste, even the clean energy industry. Critical clean energy technologies – EV batteries, solar panels, wind turbine blades – lead to a massive problem with waste management
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Human sensors will feed the global mega machine
Intelligent systems will increasingly solicit our ‘help’ to gather data
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Are weapons still a sin stock?
Changes in narratives, economic structures and the nature of technology could be altering the status of defense stock.
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The return of the incumbent?
A reflection on the demise of Big Tech and the return of industrial incumbents
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Rediscovering the collective dimension of freedom
How the classic political philosophy of liberalism can broaden our individualistic interpretation of freedom.
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The case for climate radicalism
The impacts of climate change are increasingly being felt all across the globe.
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