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Don’t miss the excellent and thought-provoking analysis by Claire Wardle (U.S. director at the nonprofit First Draft) on Scientific American. Some highlights: During the past three years the discussion around the causes of our polluted information ecosystem has focused almost entirely on actions taken (or not taken) by the technology companies. But this fixation […]
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Each week, I share some of the most interesting articles I’ve come across in the past seven days. Here is this week’s selection. Inclusion does not mean endorsement. -CA World & Politics In game of Brexit chicken, Boris Johnson driving a Mini, Brussels is driving a bus He’s currently pretending to play a chicken game […]
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Don’t miss this impressive (and enlightening) article by Princeton’s Matthew Desmond from NYT’s new “1619 Project.” Some highlights: Perhaps you’re reading this at work, maybe at a multinational corporation that runs like a soft-purring engine. You report to someone, and someone reports to you. Everything is tracked, recorded and analyzed, via vertical reporting systems, double-entry record-keeping […]
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Don’t miss Columbia professor Tim Wu’s post on OneZero about the need to reboot the innovation economy in the U.S. It’s well worth a read. Some highlights below: Being the place companies get their start has given the United States an extraordinary advantage over the last century, and helped make it the world’s preeminent […]
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Each week, I share some of the most interesting articles I’ve come across in the past seven days. Here is this week’s selection. Inclusion does not mean endorsement. -CA World & Politics Europe risks irrelevance in the age of great power competition Looking ahead, there is no reason to suppose that the global situation the […]
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Each week, I share some of the most interesting articles I’ve come across in the past seven days. Here is this week’s selection. Inclusion does not mean endorsement. -CA World & Politics NEW WORKERS OF THE WORLD You will never stop us poaching, never, ever, ever, see. In our minds, f— their concerns, ’cause this […]
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Each week, I share some of the most interesting articles I’ve come across in the past seven days. Here is this week’s selection. Inclusion does not mean endorsement. -CA World & Politics The global crisis in conservatism Conservatives respect business and are prudent stewards of the economy, because prosperity underpins everything. Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor […]
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Each week, I share some of the most interesting articles I’ve come across in the past seven days. Here is this week’s selection. Inclusion does not mean endorsement. -CA World & Politics Did we ever really understand how the EU works? The EU27’s whole approach to the talks, in other words, underlined how the politics […]
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This week the Wall Street Journal broke the story that the College Board, which administers the SAT college entrance exam in the U.S., will be rolling out fully a pilot project that assigns an “Adversity Score” to every student who takes the SAT exam. An AS of 50 (on a 1-100 scale) is average. Anything higher indicates […]
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The March 25th issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek had an interesting profile of Rebecca Kantar, the founder of startup Imbellus and a crusader to change the way educational systems measure potential and performance. A Harvard dropout, Kanter is convinced that today’s SAT and SCT regimens are deeply flawed, poor predictors of college performance and that higher-ed […]
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