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Virginia Gewin in Nature: Vida Maralani began her career studying whether education is, in fact, the ticket to socio-economic advancement and reducing inequalities, as she’d been taught. “I’ve evaluated some
Continue readingThe Rise of Inequality: Can Spanning Disciplines Help Tackle Injustice?
Working From Tropical Island Is New Working From Home…Docs Test First-Ever Medical Treatment For ‘Broken Heart’…Americans using vacation days to save on gas… GALLUP: Record-Low 38% Proud to Be American…
Continue readingNews of Interest That You Might Have Missed: June 2022
By Elena Seungeun Lee and Julie Hyunsung Lee: Parasite, a Korean black comedy film directed by Bong Joon-ho, shows the story of a poor family who infiltrated the household of
By Baher Kamal: Over 270 million migrant workers are now a major life-saving source for up to one billion people starving in the world’s poorest communities, as well as a
Continue readingMigrants Keep One Billion People Alive, Send Home a Staggering $689 Billion
By Humberto Márquez at IPS: Numerous countries of the developing South are distancing themselves from the contenders in the war in Ukraine, using the debate on the conflict to underscore
Continue readingWar in Ukraine Triggers New International Non-Alignment Trend
Batteries are expected to account for 95 percent of lithium demand by 2030 – lithium is the driving force behind electric vehicles. Scenario: Despite COVID-19’s impact on the automotive sector,
Philipp Heimberger and Nikolaus Kowall at Social Europe: Italy is living below its means: ‘Italy is living beyond its means!’ This omnipresent claim is readily supported by pointing to Italy’s
Continue readingSeven ‘Surprising’ Facts About the Italian Economy
Some WhatsApp Shares Curated by Irshad Salim – based in Karachi, to reflect on Social Media – as he sees it. “AI driven Algorithm, bots, etc. populating the cloudflare and
Russian President Vladimir Putin gave an impromptu piano rendition before meeting Chinese leader Xi Jinping on the first day of the Belt and Road Forum held in May 2017 in
Economist Umair Haque: This Is How Civilizations Collapse, And Why Ours Feels Like It’s Beginning To: I recently did an interview with veteran broadcaster Anthony Davis, formerly of the BBC.
Continue readingA Conversation About Civilizational Collapse
Joshua Judd Porter in the Los Angeles Review of Books: Talking sponges, spelling snails, dogs whose howls can be triggered from 1,000 miles away — these are but a few
by Rafaël Newman in 3QuarksDaily: The month of May begins and ends with festivals of rebirth—at least here in Zurich, where May Day, the “Revolutionary First of May,” is a