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Can we predict political uprisings?
Forecasting political unrest is a challenging task, especially in this era of post-truth and opinion...
How Black Blocs have changed protest movements around the world
The images were striking: massive blockades, protesters donning masks and black hoods suddenly racin...
No, palm oil is not responsible for 40% of global deforestation
A little over a month ago, Indonesia’s Environment and Forestry Ministry sought to extend a moratori...
As Thailand restricts internet freedom, cyber activists work to keep an open web
On June 9 2017, a Thai man was sentenced to 35 years in jail for sharing Facebook posts. The crime:...
Why Tunisia’s banks are its main economic weakness
“Work, freedom, dignity” was one of the many slogans that Tunisians chanted in 2011 to vent their fr...
How a humble cockroach rewrote the history of New Caledonia
Finding an insect species new to science can sometimes be very significant discovery. This is case f...
Brazil’s biggest problem isn’t corruption — it’s murder
Somewhere between outraged and perplexed, Brazilians have been bombarded with news about their polit...
Beyond Chile, Costa Rica and Mexico, Latin America’s innovation potential is largely untapped
Chile, Costa Rica and Mexico were Latin America’s big winners in the 2017 edition of the Global Inno...
Can we ditch dark energy by better understanding general relativity?
A renewed suggestion that dark energy may not be real — dispensing with 70% of the stuff in the univ...