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Our uniform global diet
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The rise (and descent) of the vertical city
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European parties in search for voters
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From body positivity to body neutrality
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The coming together of the BRICS
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Exporting surveillance
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Many silk connections
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Urban agriculture
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Human’s intangible stock of capital
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Will local-multiplayer survive in the video game industry?
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The sleeping Asian Tiger
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The intelligence of AI
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Germany’s growing realpolitik
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Technological momentum
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A new generation of American social democrats
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Mexico charts a new course
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Bullshit jobs in the digital age
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The bigger picture economy
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The “good” consumer
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Arbitrary decisions
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Europe's innovation horizon
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A tale of two Indias
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Personalized competence-based learning
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Early celebrations in Turkey
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Emerging markets have their moment to shine
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Galactic hegemony
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China’s challenges towards semiconductor autonomy
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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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