Tag: global

• Eleven Madison Park Isn’t Ready to Be a World-Class Vegan Restaurant

  September 5, 2021

  To get a sense of the fervor behind the newly vegan Eleven Madison Park, consider the length of the waitlist, which chef Daniel Humm revealed in August to be quite… more ›

• Big Tech Thought It Had A Billion Users In The Bag. Now It’s Being Forced To Make Hard Choices To Get Them.

  August 29, 2021

  Long viewed as the world’s biggest market for “the next billion users,” India is fast becoming Silicon Valley’s biggest headache. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/big-tech-thought-it-had-a-billion-users-in-the-bag-now-its more ›

• The world’s largest human migration is coming — and it will affect you

  August 22, 2021

  So far this year, wildfires have displaced tens of thousands of people in the U.S., Canada, Greece and Turkey. Monsoons have displaced thousands in the U.S., India and Bangladesh. And… more ›

• The Coming Afghan Refugee Crisis Is Only a Preview

  August 22, 2021

  Two developments over the past week are harbingers of a storm that may test Western democracy to destruction. First, the imminent collapse of the Afghan state risks sending a massive… more ›

• Liberal Democracy Is Worth a Fight

  August 21, 2021

  Not all battles can be won with language, arguments, conferences, or diplomacy. About the author: Anne Applebaum is a staff writer at The Atlantic, a fellow at the SNF Agora… more ›

• How Zello keeps people in the loop during South Africa’s unrest

  August 3, 2021

  The “walkie-talkie” app is fast evolving from a 911 replacement to a neighborhood communication app. On June 29, former South African president Jacob Zuma was sentenced to 15 months in… more ›

• Beyond the Meme: Ever Given, Supply Chains, and the Physical World

  June 20, 2021

  For all we may talk about software eating the world, it’s clear (and became a lot clearer during the PPE shortages of the early pandemic) that the physical world still… more ›

• ‘Cultural appropriation is a two-way thing’: Yinka Shonibare on Picasso, masks and the fashion for black artists

  June 15, 2021

  “After Matisse showed Picasso African art for the first time,” he says, “it changed the history of modern art.” This is no hyperbole. It immediately led Picasso to repaint Les Demoiselles… more ›

• China’s takeover of Western capitalism

  June 13, 2021

  Congenica is not the sort of company a lot of people follow closely. The Cambridge-based start-up specialises in genomics, an area most of us struggle to understand. https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/chinas-takeover-of-western-capitalism/ more ›

• ‘A question of dignity’: the pathologist identifying migrants drowned in the Med

  June 6, 2021

  Since 2013, Cattaneo, a professor of forensic pathology and head of Labanof (the laboratory of forensic anthropology and odontology) at the University of Milan, has been committed to putting a name to… more ›