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Ramez Naam
(Books: Nexus Series / The Infinite Resource. Teach @SingularityU. Climate / Energy Innovation Wonk. Optimist.)
It used to be that the battle to overcome inequality was about money. It was about helping the poor get better jobs so they could access a larger slice of the economic pie. What if that approach to inequality is no longer relevant? In the latest…
BuzzFeed News
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Otillia Steadman
– Dec 14, 9:47 AM
The announcement that Ivanka Trump would speak at the Doha Forum in Qatar prompted a wave of speculation from the foreign policy community about what the US President's daughter might be doing in the Gulf state. Was it a sign to Saudi prince MBS?
A new study using data from NASA satellites reports a counterintuitive finding that China and India - the two emerging countries with the world's biggest populations - are leading the increase in greening on land through planting of trees and…
The New York Times
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Heather Murphy
– Dec 13, 5:03 PM
The Hallmark Channel pulled four TV ads featuring brides kissing each other on Thursday after a targeted campaign by a conservative group. Asked to explain why the ads had been rejected, an employee of Hallmark's parent company said the channel did…
I REMEMBER THE moment I realised social-media platforms were being weaponised. When the video of the attack of March 15th 2019, which saw 51 innocent Muslim worshippers massacred in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, showed up on my…
