- Watch this YouTube on African innovation, which is only starting to recover from centuries of colonial destruction.
- Anti-terror laws in the UK are shutting down academic debate
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Social media encourages lazy thinking. How bad might it get? Read this (perhaps) fictional piece on how people are set off against each other.
- Sir David Attenborough is covering up, rather than exposing, environmental destruction
- Joseph Stiglitz: ‘America should be a warning to other countries‘ …in failing to reduce inequality
- The Rise, Fall, and Restoration of the Kingdom of Bicycles
- Canada’s health system continues to fail First Nations (as was planned)
- Tyler Cowen explains why “demand slopes down” is so important (and central to all social sciences). Also, listen to his interview with Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google Alphabet and a really clever guy (unlike the CEO of the US).
- American telecoms companies promised that they would invest more if they got tax breaks and an end to net neutrality. They aren’t.
- The Catholic Church struggles with its dogma over celibacy