Tag: global affairs

• ‘It’s something we use for fun’: A new street drug in Afghanistan

  July 23, 2019

  Names marked with an asterisk* have been changed to protect identities. It is usually quiet, cut off from the bustle of the commercial and cultural hub. https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/fun-street-drug-afghanistan-190721101125139.html more ›

• Tales from the Crypt #86 : Ben Hunt by Tales from the Crypt : A Bitcoin Podcast : A podcast on Anchor

  July 21, 2019

  Join Marty as he sits down with Ben Hunt (with a guest appearance from James O’Beirne) to discuss some of the running themes from Epsilon Theory, how they relate to… more ›

• Paradigm Shifts

  July 21, 2019

  Identify the paradigm you’re in, examine if and how it is unsustainable, and visualize how the paradigm shift will transpire when that which is unsustainable stops. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/paradigm-shifts-ray-dalio more ›

• Supply chains are undergoing a dramatic transformation

  July 14, 2019

  TOM LINTON, chief procurement and supply-chain officer at Flex, an American contract-manufacturing giant, has his finger on The Pulse. That is the name of his firm’s whizzy command centre in… more ›

• Zombiescapes: Africa’s Megacity Addiction

  July 14, 2019

  The popularity of these sorts of projects is not just a curious coincidence. Their language, the examples they refer to, and the process of their development all show an obvious… more ›

• The Descendants of Slaves in Nigeria Fight for Equality

  July 14, 2019

  On a sunny morning in November, 2018, twelve men and two women gathered in a lavishly furnished living room in Oguta, a town in southeastern Nigeria, with the air-conditioning at… more ›

• Arrival of the Babel Fish

  July 4, 2019

  In the very near future, maybe in ten years, we’ll have earpods that will do real time language translation. Someone speaks Greek to you, and with the slightest delay, you’ll… more ›

• Virgil Abloh: the red-hot renaissance man shaking up fashion

  June 30, 2019

  On an early summer’s evening on the outskirts of Basel – a city almost certainly in Switzerland, but sometimes in France and occasionally Germany – hundreds of well-heeled men and… more ›

• What Does Putin Really Want?

  June 26, 2019

  This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. On a warm late-May afternoon, I took a taxi to the outskirts of the Russian capital to the Moscow State Institute of… more ›

• ‘The Oligarchy’s Operating System’ With Cory Doctorow

  June 26, 2019

  Playing for Team Human today, activist, journalist, and science fiction author of the new anthology Radicalized, Cory Doctorow. Cory has a unique way of building stories, metaphors, and scenarios… https://medium.com/s/teamhuman/the-oligarchys-operating-system-with-cory-doctorow-5f3af6058af8 more ›