Here and elsewhere, desertification acts as the trigger; climate change and population growth act as amplifiers; interethnic and tribal conflicts are the political by-product, and WhatsApp provides bo...
Google released the basic algorithms for a program called TensorFlow for public consumption by the open-source community. TensorFlow is a set of algorithms that enable fast computers to do deep learni...
Get used to it. The weather may feel like science fiction, but the science underlying it is very real and mundane. It takes only a small increase in global average temperatures to have a big effect on...
Everyone goes into journalism for different reasons—and they’re often idealistic ones.
El fenómeno ha sido denominado «comercio conversacional» y promete entretejer el mundo más estrecha y rápidamente, simplificando y acelerando cada vez más las interacciones complejas.
Communism was a great system for making people equally poor - in fact, there was no better system in the world for that than communism. Capitalism made people unequally rich.
Chúng ta đang ở trong một hệ thống quốc tế mới. Hệ thống này có logic, có quy luật, có áp lực và có động lực riêng của nó - nó đáng được gọi bằng tên riêng - Toàn Cầu Hóa. Toàn cầu hóa không chỉ là mộ...
But there is another statistic, much harder to measure, that I think is even more important and revealing: Does your society have more memories than dreams or more dreams than memories?
But the question that tugged at me, and I asked over and over was: What was that it that was being sustained? I needed to know because I wanted to bottle it and share it. Nothing, it seemed to me, wou...
Because pluralism is not diversity alone, but the energetic engagement with diversity, explains the Pluralism Project at Harvard on its website, mere diversity without real encounter and relationship...
All of these are signs that our societal structures are failing to keep pace with the rate of change, he said. Everything feels like it’s in constant catch-up mode. What to do? We certainly don’t want...
Heart, it’s driven by a deep human desire for collaboration and a deep human desire for recognition and affirmation of work well done—not financial reward. It is amazing how much value you can create...
Why is that so hard? Because the one big bug we have as humans is that we are tribal, answers Marina Gorbis, executive director at the Institute for the Future. We always need the group to give us ide...
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This Levantine spirit developed gradually in Beirut after the Industrial Revolution, as the burgeoning Lebanese silk trade and the invention of the steamboat combined to bring men and women of America...
These alliances began with the most basic blood association—the family—and then expanded to the clan, the tribe, and then to other tribes.
There is nothing called ‘underprivileged’ anymore, said Yildiz. All you need is a working brain, some short training, and then put your idea into a fantastic business from any part of the world!
The story also pointed out that most big cities and towns have chambers of commerce and economic development offices, but what makes Itasca unique, participants say, is a commitment to hard data and M...
The Levantine political idea, which grew naturally among the communities of the eastern Mediterranean, was an original way of dealing with diverse tribal, village, and sectarian identities, and it ins...
The Cold War was a struggle between two competing systems of order, dominated by two competing superpowers, who could, relatively speaking, keep their allies ideologically in line, physically intact,...