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What is the impact of mindfulness on society?
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How China sees Hong Kong
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Generation Alpha
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Online language is better language
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The dominance of movie franchises
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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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The plant-based protein transition
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Will climate engineering save the planet?
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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?
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The quest for autonomy in the digital age
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Gen Z in the generational cycle
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Japan, Korea and the global semiconductor industry
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Reality is holding back self-driving cars
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The depth of deep ecology
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The internet of thoughts
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The ambiguity of self-tracking for health
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Precautionary screening for the masses?
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The French Renaissance
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Will China become a sustainability leader?
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Our cities as AR gaming arenas
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Technology on a leash
By sharing ownership and control with producers and governments, our smart devices are no longer what they seem
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Venetian, young and farming: three lessons from the new generation of Italian farmers on agri-food sustainability
Julia Rijssenbeek and Maya Turolla turn the spotlight on young farmers championing the transition to sustainable food systems.
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Politics should focus more on the Good Life
How can we reinstate the concept of the Good without downplaying the systemic risks threatening our global society?
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The rise of CBDCs
Pim Korsten gives a rundown on the opportunities and risks of the rise of central bank digital currencies.
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What is Russia's view on climate change?
Melting ice caps in the Arctic are incentivizing Russia’s exploitation and extraction of natural resources representing the last straw of the Anthropocene.
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The energy transition is not a hobby
With the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia, we have to face the fact that our dependence on fossil fuels poses a structural problem.
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Autocracy and the End of History
Is the ideological confrontation between the liberal-democratic and autocratic world order on its way to becoming the global political issue of our century?
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Russian digitalization through a Cosmist lens
To understand Russian politics, we need to understand Russian Cosmism, a philosophy that supports the digitalization of the Arctic.
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An introduction to the Stack
Learn more about our framework that helps us understand the anatomy of digital systems.
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Russia’s strategic exploitation of the Arctic
A long-standing resource-dependent economy, a melting Arctic, and technical capabilities have thrown the Arctic into the spotlight for Russia’s upcoming economic strategy.
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