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Inequality kills

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The Dutch way of going circular

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Retroscope 2019: Technological cycle

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Gut feeling and the future of nutrigenomics

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Horror in times of uncertainty

Horror movies allow us to safely explore extreme scenarios... what do they tell us about our current fears?

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E-sports on steroids

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The age of digital mega-ecosystems

Digital ecosystems have the potential to address consumer needs, but obstacles still exist in their implementation.

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How to make the transition to a sustainable everyday life

Has the time come for personal carbon footprint calculators?

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The virtual of virtual reality

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Limits to facial recognition

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The quiet Russian Resurgence

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Indian innovation

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Revolutionaries between UFOs and raids

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The European Green Deal

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Every bit has a price

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The elemental evolution of media

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Will hiding the like button help Facebook?

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Computers need a language for causal reasoning

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Reinventing urban waterways

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Looking for the long term

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China’s digital platforms as a regional standard

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Biohacking diets

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How China sees Hong Kong

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Building bridges to the crypto space

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The rise of the Asian Aerotropolis

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Online language is better language

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Apple’s silent transition into the next computing paradigm

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The European Stack is taking shape

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Multilateralism and the decline of the U.S. hegemony

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Worker rights, a new frontier for reducing U.S. inequality?

Breaking the bottleneck

Can state-led initiatives relying on market mechanisms help us achieve our decarbonization goals?

Beyond planetary boundaries: towards Earth systems justice

Linking new developments in Earth systems research to the Deep Transitions Framework

Has AI become indistinguishable from life itself?

Developments in AI lead to new speculations about the role of technologies in the evolution of life.

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

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

Are weapons still a sin stock?

Changes in narratives, economic structures and the nature of technology could be altering the status of defense stock.

Human sensors will feed the global mega machine

Intelligent systems will increasingly solicit our ‘help’ to gather data

The return of the incumbent?

A reflection on the demise of Big Tech and the return of industrial incumbents

The case for climate radicalism

The impacts of climate change are increasingly being felt all across the globe.

Rediscovering the collective dimension of freedom

How the classic political philosophy of liberalism can broaden our individualistic interpretation of freedom.