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• The 100-Year History of Self-Driving Cars

  August 8, 2020

  The first self-driving vehicles were ships. After centuries of wrestling with wind and waves, ancient sailors devised contraptions that harnessed these forces of nature to fill in for man. They… more ›

• 130 Degrees

  August 8, 2020

  So now we have some sense of what it’s like: a full-on global-scale crisis, one that disrupts everything. Normal life—shopping for food, holding a wedding, going to work, seeing your… more ›

• TikTok and the Sorting Hat — Remains of the Day

  August 8, 2020

  How did an app designed by two guys in Shanghai managed to run circles around U.S. video apps from YouTube to Facebook to Instagram to Snapchat, becoming the most fertile… more ›

• The top 50 African Disruptors (41-45)

  August 8, 2020

  The Africa Report’s inaugural ranking of the top Africans who are disrupting the status quo in politics, business and the arts: from investigative journalists to world-class athletes and Nobel Peace… more ›

• Black lives will not matter until the economy does

  August 6, 2020

  In the wake of George Floyd’s killing by police officers in the United States and the global movement for Black lives, there has been a resounding call to re-examine the… more ›

• Germany’s sex workers demand easing of Covid-19 restrictions

  August 6, 2020

  Sex workers in Germany are appealing to politicians to ease coronavirus restrictions that have prevented them from working during the pandemic. Groups representing the more than 40,000 sex workers officially… more ›

• The Mask Slackers of 1918

  August 3, 2020

  As the influenza pandemic swept across the United States in 1918 and 1919, masks took a role in political and cultural wars. The masks were called muzzles, germ shields and… more ›

• Why clever people say silly things

  August 2, 2020

  More knowledge is touted as the vaccine against ‘alternative facts’, half truths and misconceptions. But what if our brains are the problem, not the solution? These answers are no longer… more ›

• Hajj 2020: A Hajj Like No Other for the Select Few Invited by Allah

  August 2, 2020

  Hajj 2020, small, scaled back and limited numbers, all diametrically opposite the descriptions and scenes we’ve witnessed year upon year. It’s very much a unique moment in history for Muslims… more ›

• This Is Not the End of Cities

  August 2, 2020

  Both the coronavirus pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement create opportunities to reshape cities in more equitable ways. As overwhelming as the current overlapping crises may seem now, cities have… more ›