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If in America the political battle is waged on the premise of economic policy, with low taxes and free markets on the one side and regulation and progressive taxation on [...]
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Researchers from the Asian Trends Monitoring (ATM) team took a look at alternative futures in Hanoi and developed four very different scenarios for how the city’s entrepreneurs would [...]
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Hot. Stuffy. Noisy. White man dressed in checkered shirt and jeans. Oh and there’s another one. And another one. Some carrying brief cases and laptop bags. Some burying [...]
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Salomé Reyes was an elite cyclist. She was also a dentist. She participated in mountain bike and urban competitions and was well known inside the Quito sports circuit. In late [...]
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When I was a kid, I could play this game for hours: staying in front of the mirror, moving my left hand to see whether the person on the wall [...]
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There has been a sudden rise in the number of patients with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Pakistan and other Middle East countries in the last few years. The reason behind [...]
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There is only one place in the world where the mineral lorandite can be found in its purest form and in such vast quantities. That place is Allchar [...]
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Abstract: The periods of transition after wars can be terrible, altough they already fall into the category of "peace". A good example of this are the years after the end [...]
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Mountainous Slovakia is rich in natural resources and its mining tradition dates back to ancient times. We had our Gold Fever five centuries before the Americans. But with the discovery [...]
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Food became more of an interest to me after I moved to the United States from Latin America, where I lived in Perú, Costa Rica and Colombia. I've struggled with [...]
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Democracy apart, there is no other idea so often extinguished, despised, rejected as irredeemably utopian and reborn again and yet again as the deep human need for justice. Even so, [...]
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Is conflict a part of human nature? An interesting question indeed. This short film illustrates what happens when you take individuals from [...]
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The latest infographic from the Asian Trends Monitoring team tells a story about Hanoi, capital of Vietnam, and how it fares in its struggle to provide basic services for [...]
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Abstract: The government of President Juan Manuel Santos and the FARC guerrilla in Colombia started [...]
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Nearly seven billion human beings live on this planet called Earth. Although these seven billion belong to the same species, they are very different. Hundreds and maybe thousands of beliefs [...]
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The education sector, deemed one of the most important pillars of development in post-Arab Spring Egypt, is struggling as we approach the second anniversary of the [...]
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On 9th October Uganda marked 50 years of independence with pomp, colour, showcasing the country air power and a [...]
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The recent tensions between China and Japan about possession of the Diaoyu Islands have led to a wave of anti-Japanese protests throughout China. This time official TV and newspapers [...]
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In 2010, the prevalence rate of tuberculosis in North Korea was 399 per 100,000 people. This is alarming given that Ghana, another developing country with the same population of 24 [...]
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SOPA and PIPA shake up the battle of free information On January 18th, 2012, websites Wikipedia and Reddit shut down in protest against a new copyright protection bill that was [...]
