Tag: reading list

• Africa’s Pulse

  April 28, 2019

  https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/20236 more ›

• Africa’s Pulse, No. 19, April 2019 : An Analysis of Issues Shaping Africa’s Economic Future

  April 28, 2019

  https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/31499 more ›

• Kidnapping: A Very Efficient Business

  April 23, 2019

  In Argentina in the early 1970s, leftist guerrillas started snatching executives of multinational companies and demanding ransoms. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/05/09/kidnapping-efficient-business/ more ›

• Franco’s invisible legacy: books across the hispanic world are still scarred by his censorship

  April 17, 2019

  It’s exactly 80 years since the end of the Spanish Civil War, when General Francisco Franco’s populist forces finally overcame the leftist resistance and plunged the country into full-blown dictatorship.… more ›

• Squaring up: how Insta-fashion is changing the way we shop

  April 8, 2019

  We’ve all bought them at some time or another: the perfect pair of shoes. Stylish, comfortable – the kind you wear with everything until they fall apart, and you have… more ›

• Where to Eat in Lisbon Now: 10 Top New Restaurants

  April 1, 2019

  Okay, Europe’s “best-kept secret” may now be anything but. Yet Lisbon’s ever evolving (and improving) restaurant scene is keeping the city exciting. It’s also spreading beyond the tourist center and… more ›

• Mind games: what magic reveals about how our brains work

  March 30, 2019

  The magician picks up a coin, conceals it in his hand and, after a magical gesture, it mysteriously disappears, only to reappear from behind your ear. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/mar/30/mind-games-what-magic-reveals-about-how-our-brains-work more ›

• Secret Cabinet Office document reveals chaotic planning for no-deal Brexit

  March 22, 2019

  The extent and range of the impact of a no-deal Brexit is revealed in a confidential Cabinet Office document that warns of a “critical three-month phase” after leaving the EU… more ›

• From Dresden on the 50th Anniversary of ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’

  March 22, 2019

  DRESDEN, Germany — Last month, 74 years to the day since the bombers came, the late winter sky was gray as German tour guide Danilo Hommel called a halt before… more ›

• Joi Ito’s Web

  March 18, 2019

  Ito, J. (2019). 2019 Applied Ethical and Governance Challenges in AI – Notes from Part I. . https://ift.tt/2UGj4EL Vancouver Ito J. 2019 Applied Ethical and Governance Challenges in AI –… more ›