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The higher purpose of motor sports
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The dilemma of future sports regulation
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Sustainable by default
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Capitalists’ worries about capitalism
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Megablockbusters: A societal forum for the negotiation of social values
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The social promise of augmented reality
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To measure someone is to know someone
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Is TikTok a vector for Chinese ideals?
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Spain has proven to be far from immune to the populist wave sweeping across Europe
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Got milk?
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Sustainable minerals for sustainable technology
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The Arctic through the eyes of Greenland
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Can’t live with social media, can’t live without it
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The Dragon and the Elephant in the 21st century
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Contemporary spirituality is all about the self
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Illegal streaming holds the media industry in check
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Africa is set to become world’s largest free trade area
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Can algorithms be neutral?
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The Africa Stack
The African continent might be leapfrogging into the digital economy
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Where architecture and IT meet
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The evolving landscape of consumer trust
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The future of Europe from an Asian perspective
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Scaling bitcoin with the lightning network
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21st century Luddites target self-driving cars
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Geopolitics of aid and development cooperation
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Populism and the shifting climate change debate
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The VAR system and the datafication of everyday life
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Particularly deadly matter
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Facebook’s strategy for a decentralized future
Will Facebook orchestrate its own disruption?
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Slowing down fast fashion
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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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Emerging markets face tough financial challenges
Will emerging markets' recovery be halted by increasing financial problems?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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