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December 2017:
What Putin really Wants
(Atlantic)
Risky rituals forge social bonds
(Aeon)
November 2017:
Mysterious nuclear accident in Russia
(BBC)
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How Vladislav Surkov invented Putin's Russia
(Atlantic)
Trump will win Republican nomination again
(CNN)
Trump signs $250 billion deals with China
Russian Disinformation Technology
(Technology Review)
Alternative Media
(Sage Journals)
more guns don't stop more crime
(Scientific American)
October 2017:
Putin's anti-Western speech at Sochin
(Macomb Daily)
September 2017:
High carbohydrate intake is associated with higher risk of total mortality, whereas total fat and individual types of fat are related to lower total mortality
(PURE study) - but criticism can be found in "How Pure is PURE? Dietary Lessons Learned and Not Learned From the PURE Trials" (American Journal of Medicine), "PURE study makes headlines, but the conclusions are misleading" (
Harvard University
),
"Associations of fats and carbohydrates with cardiovascular disease and mortality-PURE and simple?"
(Lancet), etc
The scientists of immortality
(New Yorker)
IBM Watson debunked
(Stat News)
Azerbaijan's government laundered $3 billion
(BBC)
Turkey in Germany
(Economist)
Against climate change
(Heartland)
August 2017:
Candida auris, deadly fungal infection
(Medscape)
Caloric restriction slows aging
(Institute for Research in Biomedicine)
The first large, ethnically diverse study on women with breast cancer shows that higher dietary intake of isoflavone (found in soya) is associated with reduced all-cause mortality
(Wiley)
When Will Enough Be Enough in Afghanistan?
(Atlantic)
Oldest websites in the world
(Telegraph)
How social networking is changing US politics
(Global Guerrillas)
Nuclear historian Alex Wellerstein on the risk of nuclear war with North Korea
(Scientific American)
The effect of smartphones on teenage depression
(Atlantic)
Japanese education does not depend on wealth
(Atlantic)
The climate impact of beef
(Atlantic)
The Endless War in Afghanistan
(Guardian)
July 2017:
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14.5% of students of the top 12 universities came from families in the top 1% of the income distribution, while just 13.5% came from the bottom 50%.
(Stanford University economist Raj Chetty)
Cars of the future
(Atlantic)
China and Russia
(Economist)
Crisis in Venezuela
(Economist)
Paul Kagame and Rwanda
(Economist)
Just 5% of the US population is responsible for 50% of the nation's medical spending
(Atlantic)
Germany's economic model
(Economist)
Germany's current-account surplus
(Economist)
June 2017:
North Korea is not about to collapse
(Al Jazeera)
Child marriage among Sri Lankan Muslims
(Economist)
Economic recovery in Spain
(Economist)
May 2017:
Caloric restriction slows aging
(Translational Gerontology Branch, National Institute on Aging)
Social media are creating echo chambers that threaten democracy
(Wired)
The real reason there's still no peace between Israel and Palestinians
(Guardian)
Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister and ambassador
(Washington Post)
Trumpgate is worse than Watergate
(Atlantic)
White middle class voted for Trump for fear of social change
(Atlantic)
Trump administration settles Russian money-laundering case in secret
(CNN)
Trump administration settles Russian money-laundering case in secret
(CNN)
Greg Ip's article on Robots Aren't Destroying Enough Jobs
(Wall Street Journal)
False Alarmism: Technological Disruption and the U.S. Labor Market, 1850-2015
(ITIF)
U.S. Life Expectancy Varies Significantly Based on Location
(Scientific American)
The uncodified rules of mountaineering
(Aeon)
The dark side of Silicon Valley
(Pando)
Conference at Harvard on the future of Europe (with video recordings and pdf summaries)
Poll by ECFR on the future of Europe
Jan Techau (Carnegie Europe)'s predictions on the future of Europe
White paper by the EC on the future of Europe
Joschka Fischer on the future of Europe
April 2017:
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Brazil's Odebrecht: the largest global corruption scandal in modern history
(CNN)
The PSA test for prostate cancer is not always a good idea
(New York Times)
China and the USA in East Asia
(Economist)
Seven decades of the USA in East Asia
(Economist)
The strategy of China's neighbors
(Economist)
The war to tropical diseases
(Economist)
Hungary's president copying Russia's Putin?
(BBC)
The most luminous radio signals in the universe
(Quanta Magazine)
Nick Bostrom on alien life
(Technology Review)
The CIA's Vault 7 documents
(Independent)
Britain provided the USA with intercepted communications between the Trump campaign and Russian operatives
(CNN)
The fate of a cow
(PETA)
March 2017:
Michael Morell on the Trump-Russia scandal
, notably at minute 19'00' (Charlie Rose)
China's migrant workforce
(Bloomberg)
February 2017:
Wayne Barrett, Donald Trump, and the Death of the American Press
(Tablet)
Fasting (caloric restriction) slows aging and prevents diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular disease
(Longevity Institute, University of Southern California)
Putin's world
(The Atlantic)
January 2017:
Caloric restriction slows aging
(Center for Epigenetics and Metabolism, University of California, Irvine)
Caloric restriction improves health and survival of rhesus monkeys
(Translational Gerontology Branch, National Institute on Aging)
The king of Jordan is the first Arab leader to meet with Trump
(Times of Israel)
Trump fan kills six Muslims in Canada
(Daily News)
The age of repressive kleptocracy in the USA
(The Atlantic)
The radioactive berries of Chernobyl
(Aeon)
The monumental stupidity of Trump's anti-Islamic orders
(The Atlantic)
The fraud of Gregg Phillips
(CNN)
The vast majority of US citizens want alternative energy
(Pew Inst)
Carlo Rovelli on Democritus, Lucretius, Einstein
(Aeon)
Trump's presidency begins with a flagrant lie about his crowd's size
(Huffington Post)
Trumponomics is a repeat of the economy that caused the Great Depression
(Vice)
Donald Trump has assembled the worst Cabinet in history
(Washington Post)
The 1896 crisis, caused by fake news
(The Atlantic)
Eat spicy food and live longer
(Gen News)
The math of innovation
(MIT Tech Review)
The Divided States: Trump's inauguration and how democracy has failed
(Guardian)
David Foster Wallace predicted Donald Trump
(Salon)
How Robert Kennedy Jr distorted vaccine science
(Scientific American)
How State-Sponsored Blackmail Works in Russia
(The Atlantic)
Documents showing Trump's connection to Russia
(Document Cloud)
How Putin elected Trump
(CNN)
Congress' approval rating falls to almost zero
(New Yorker)
Dementia higher in busy cities
(BBC News)
Mediterranean Diet Could Save Your Brain, Study Finds
(NBC News)
How tv comedy created Trump
(Columbia Journalism Review)
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