Backcasting from a future health dystopia: 3 ways to prevent it
Most science fiction has tended to the dystopian view of the future. In these fictional dystopias the quality of life of the lower-income strata of society is often regressing, while the highest-income strata have access to technologies that render even ageing and death obsolete
2020 set to be first or second warmest year on record
With the data now in for the first half of the year, Carbon Brief estimates that 2020 is most likely to be either the warmest or second warmest year on record, depending on the approach used to calculate global temperatures
EU releases 33 million euros emergency aid for Beirut blast
The European Union announced Thursday (6 August) that it had released €33 million to finance initial emergency aid for Lebanon and mobilised material resources, including an Italian hospital ship, to help relief efforts in Beirut, devastated Tuesday by two explosions
Why COVID-19 makes inclusion a strategic imperative for business
To quote Singapore’s senior minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam from his national address last month: “The future begins now”
How COVID-19 will look to geologists of the future
COVID-19 is a major global shock that has turned our lives upside down, but how does it measure up on the grand billion-year scale of Earth history?
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COVID-19 has accelerated India’s digital reset
Thursday, August 6, 2020
Since the beginning of its COVID-19 lockdown in late March, India has distributed around $5 billion in cash benefits to its citizens who need assistance the most, entirely through payments made via digital platforms
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Eurozone retail sales return to pre-pandemic levels
Thursday, August 6, 2020
The volume of retail sales in the euro zone rebounded in June to levels recorded in February before lockdowns, official estimates showed on Wednesday (5 August), completing a recovery that began in May after record drops in March and April
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How AI can accelerate the search for treatments for emerging and intractable diseases
Thursday, August 6, 2020
The sudden appearance and rapid spread of COVID-19 took governments and society by surprise
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Thursday, August 6, 2020
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Joe Biden and Ending the US’s Dr. Strangelove Nuclear Posture
Thursday, August 6, 2020
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Pandemic policy should also be climate policy - this is why
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
While the world focuses on the COVID-19 crisis, climate change continues to advance. The consequences are devastating and becoming more so – and that includes for the pandemic response itself
Russia surprises Cyprus with move to scrap tax deal
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
Russia’s finance ministry said on Monday (3 August) it would scrap an agreement with Cyprus aimed at avoiding double taxation after talks to modify the deal failed, a decision that surprised Cyprus, which said talks were still under way
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Toll expected to rise in blast that shook Beirut, killing 78 and injuring thousands
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
Lebanese rescue workers dug through the rubble looking for survivors of a powerful warehouse explosion that shook the capital Beirut on Tuesday (4 August), killing 78 people and injuring nearly 4,000 in a toll that officials expected to rise
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What’s Behind the Rising Inequality of Everything?
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
Jeff Bezos, the CEO of the company millions depended on for deliveries during coronavirus lockdown, is reportedly set to become the world’s first trillionaire. As forecast by business platform Comparisun, his unique status isn’t due to the current crisis
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A Post-Covid Social Contract
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
Peace and prosperity are a part of everyday life that we seem to have taken for granted. We used to be certain about how life should be, what success looked like, and we used to feel invulnerable
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Dateline US: Economic Power for the 99%
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
Economic shame haunts hard-working Americans. They ask themselves why they can’t do as well as their parents
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How carbon-smart farming can feed us and fight climate change at the same time
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
Farmers are the stewards of our planet’s precious soil, one of the least understood and untapped defenses against climate change
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By: N. Peter Kramer
