Ribelli 5 stelle contro saggi PD!neroeditions.com - Fabrizio Luisi Degli ultimi mesi di vita politica italiana un aspetto che mi ha molto colpito è la scarsa competenza in comunicazione politica delle forze …
Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?The Atlantic - Jean M. TwengeMore comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been. But they’re on the brink of a mental-health crisis. One day last summer, around noon,
Quella dei jihadisti è una rivolta generazionale e nichilistainternazionale.it - Olivier Roy 27 novembre 2015 12:43 La Francia è in guerra! Sì, ma contro chi o cosa? Il gruppo Stato islamico (Is) non manda cittadini siriani in Francia per …
Loss of Fertile Land Fuels ‘Looming Crisis’ Across AfricaThe New York Times - By JEFFREY GETTLEMANLAIKIPIA, Kenya — The two elders, wearing weather-beaten cowboy hats with the strings cinched under their chins, stood at the edge of an empty farm, covering their mouths in disbelief. Their homes — neat
Jeremy England, the Man Who May One-Up DarwinOZY - Meghan Walsh On a sunny afternoon, at a bustling cafe less than a mile from Stanford University’s campus, near Palo Alto, and more than 5,000 miles from his home, …
What the World Would Look Like if All the Ice MeltedNational GeographicMagazine If we keep burning fossil fuels indefinitely, global warming will eventually melt all the ice at the poles and on mountaintops, raising sea level by 216 feet. Explore what the world’s new coastlines
The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijackedThe Guardian - Carole CadwalladrA shadowy global operation involving big data, billionaire friends of Trump and the disparate forces of the Leave campaign influenced the result of the EU referendum. As Britain heads to the polls again,
Luddites have been getting a bad rap for 200 years. But, turns out, they were rightQuartz - By Michael J. CorenThings did not end well for the Luddites. The group of weavers and textile artisans in early 1800s were crushed by the British government after resisting the destruction of their livelihoods by industrialization.
Is It Time to Break Up Google?The New York Times - By JONATHAN TAPLINIn just 10 years, the world’s five largest companies by market capitalization have all changed, save for one: Microsoft. Exxon Mobil, General Electric, Citigroup and Shell Oil are out and Apple, Alphabet
Air strikes are not an effective tactic of war, but we keep using them anywayTimeline Bombs over Baghdad? Largely ineffectual. Scott BeauchampBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Apr 22, 2017 American military involvement in Afghanistan has been …
Creativity will be the source of our next industrial revolution, not machinesQuartz - By Itai PaltiGrowth in the first industrial revolution was driven by engineering, the second through electricity and production lines, and the third by technology and information. The modern economies that will undergo
Descartes was wrong: ‘a person is a person through other persons’ – Abeba Birhaneaeon.co According to Ubuntu philosophy, which has its origins in ancient Africa, a newborn baby is not a person. People are born without ‘ena’, or selfhood, …
How We Learn to Exclude PeopleNew York Magazine - Cari Romm We start learning how to form friendships pretty much as soon as we’re born: the first time we hold a gaze, return a smile, or recognize a face or a …
Guru per sempreprismomag.com - Andrea Girolami . È stato un cambiamento di paradigma lento e strisciante ma finalmente possiamo annunciarlo senza paura di essere smentiti. Il giovane imprenditore …
Five numbers that will define the next 100 yearsBBC Future - Miriam Quick / Illustrations by Valentina D'EfilippoFrom energy to life expectancy, these crucial statistics could define Earth’s upcoming century. (Click/pinch to enlarge) How will the world’s population continue to increase? There will be 11.2 billion
The torture of Tokyo rush hour, up close and impersonalhuckmagazine.com - Text By Cian Traynor The Odakyu Odawara Line carries one-and-a-half million people across Tokyo every single day. It starts in the suburbs southwest of the city and …
Designing Facebook for Mobile VRmedium.com Lessons from the making of the Facebook 360 app for Gear VR Gabriel ValdiviaBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Mar 16, 2017 The mission of the Facebook …
How Aristotle Created the ComputerThe Atlantic - Chris DixonThe philosophers he influenced set the stage for the technological revolution that remade our world. THE HISTORY Of computers is often told as a history of objects, from the abacus to the Babbage engine
What He Could Donybooks.com - Mark Danner What we are witnessing now is the birth of a new political order, and the more frantic a handful of media elites become, the more powerful that new …
The 100 Things We Need To Do To Reverse Global WarmingFast Company - Adele PetersPaul Hawken’s new book Drawdown claims to have made a definitive list of the most effective global strategies for lowering our emissions. Don’t despair: they’re all totally achievable. If you read anything
Why the Planet Earth II Episode on Cities Is So StartlingThe Atlantic - Sam KrissIt gives us a glimpse of our strange future. It used to happen a lot: Teetering home drunk and disconsolate late at night through the shadowy semi-suburbs of north London, I would turn a corner and find,
Norwegian robot learns to self-evolve and 3D print itself in the lab – Fanatical Futurist by International Keynote Speakerglobalfuturist.org WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF For the first time we are seeing how it’s possible for robots in the future to design and evolve, manufacture and assemble …
Crash: how computers are setting us up for disasterThe Guardian - Tim HarfordWe increasingly let computers fly planes and carry out security checks. Driverless cars are next. But is our reliance on automation dangerously diminishing our skills? When a sleepy Marc Dubois walked
Play button Fake News Is About to Get Even Scarier than You Ever DreamedVanity Fair - By Nick BiltonWhat we saw in the 2016 election is nothing compared to what we need to prepare for in 2020. Less than a month after Donald Trump was improbably elected the 45th president of the United States, a strange
How to Be Lucky - Issue 44: Lucknautil.us - Chelsea Wald “Luck is believing you’re lucky.”—Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named DesireIn 1995, a wounded 35-year-old woman named Anat Ben-Tov gave an …
The Movie with a Thousand PlotlinesThe New Yorker - Raffi KhatchadourianWill interactive films be this century’s defining art form? Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, young directors who go by the joint film credit Daniels, are known for reality-warped miniatures—short films,
How Jokes Won the ElectionThe New Yorker - Emily NussbaumHow do you fight an enemy who’s just kidding? Since November 9th, we’ve heard a lot of talk about unreality, and how what’s normal bends when you’re in a state of incipient autocracy. There’s been a lot
