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Nations are no longer driving globalization—cities are

Urbanization has already declared itself the mega-trend of the 21st century, with half the world’s population now living in cities for the first time in human history. While the implications for…
SOURCE:qz.com
PUBLISHED: May 3, 2013
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1286 words)

What Broke My Father’s Heart

The Connecticut home of the author's parents. The photo on the wall is of her parents as a young couple. One October afternoon three years ago while I was visiting my parents, my mother made a…
PUBLISHED: June 18, 2010
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4946 words)

The Dark Side of the Digital Revolution

How do you explain to people that they are a YouTube sensation, when they have never heard of YouTube or the Internet? That's a question we faced during our January visit to North Korea, when we…
PUBLISHED: April 19, 2013
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2156 words)

The Bitcoin Bubble and the Future of Currency — Money & Banking

A few days ago, the value of all the bitcoins in the world blew past $1 billion for the first time ever. That’s an impressive achievement, for a purely virtual currency backed by no central…
SOURCE:medium.com
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5013 words)

The Legend of Chris Kyle

Kyle left the SEALs in 2009 so he could be a better husband to Taya and a better father to his two kids. 'He loved being a dad,' Taya said.Courtesy of Taya KyleCHRIS KYLE DIDN’T FIT THE…
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4491 words)
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Fat City: What can stop obesity?

In the late 1980s I spent a year in the US as an exchange student. The exchange organisation allocated me a local support person named Emily. Emily was white and loud and the fattest person I had…
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5296 words)

The Prince of the White House

"A visitor once came to the White House and presented an idea to President Kennedy," Charles Frankel recounts in his classic memoir, High on Foggy Bottom. "The President was enthusiastic. 'That's a…
PUBLISHED: March 4, 2013
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5521 words)

We Aren’t the World

IN THE SUMMER of 1995, a young graduate student in anthropology at UCLA named Joe Henrich traveled to Peru to carry out some fieldwork among the Machiguenga, an indigenous people who live north of…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 25, 2013
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4980 words)

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