How to Spend a Trillion Dollars - The 10 Global Problems We Can Actually Fix by Rowan Hooper
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Category: Current Affairs
A compelling thought experiment that will lead to hours of fruitful debate.
How to Stay Safe Online - A Digital Self-Care Toolkit for Developing Resilience and Allyship by Seyi Akiwowo
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Category: Current Affairs
Digital spaces are a positive force for change, connection and community, but left unregulated, they are not always safe. Globally, women are 27 times more likely than men to be harassed online. This is worse for Black women who are 84% more likely to face online abuse than white women. There has been a ...Show more
How to Stay Smart in a Smart World: Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms by Gerd Gigerenzer
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Category: Current Affairs
Is more data always better? Do algorithms really make better decisions than humans? Can we stay in control in an increasingly automated world? Drawing on decades of research into decision making under uncertainty, Gerd Gigerenzer makes a compelling case for the enduring importance of human discernment i ...Show more
How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason by Lee Mcintyre
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Category: Current Affairs
"Climate change is a hoax--and so is coronavirus." "Vaccines are bad for you." These days, many of our fellow citizens reject scientific expertise and prefer ideology to facts. They are not merely uninformed--they are misinformed. They cite cherry-picked evidence, rely on fake experts, and believe consp ...Show more
How to Win an Election by Chris Wallace
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Category: Current Affairs
The 2019 Australian election produced a surprise result showing, not for the first time, that every election is there for the taking – including the next one. Here are the ten steps to winning an election. We have a democracy that performs relatively well, but many Australian elections are very clo ...Show more
Human Flow - Stories from the Global Refugee Crisis by Weiwei Ai; Boris Cheshirkov (Editor); Ryan Heath (Editor); Chin-chin Yap (Editor)
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Category: Current Affairs
A powerful portrait of the greatest humanitarian emergency of our time, from the director of Human Flow In the course of making Human Flow, his epic feature documentary about the global refugee crisis, the artist Ai Weiwei and his collaborators interviewed more than 600 refugees, aid workers, politician ...Show more
Humans: A Brief History of How We F**ked It All Up by Tom Phillips
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Category: Current Affairs
An exhilarating journey through the most creative and catastrophic f*ck ups in human history, from our very first ancestor falling out of that tree, to the most spectacular fails of the present day. In the seventy thousand years that modern human beings have walked this earth, we've come a long way. Ar ...Show more
I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street by Matt Taibbi
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Category: Current Affairs
'A brilliant work of narrative nonfiction' - Booklist 'Matt Taibbi is one of the few journalists in America who speaks truth to power'- Bernie Sanders 'A searing exposU' - Kirkus Review 'Taibbi may be the only political writer in America that matters' - Hartford Advocate The incredible story of the de ...Show more
I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country by Elena Kostyuchenko
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Category: Current Affairs
Blending personal memoir with frontline reportage, this is an intimate and fearless portrait of contemporary Russia by one of Russia's most prominent independent journalists An unprecedented and intimate portrait of Russia, and fearless cri de coeur for journalism in opposition to the global authoritari ...Show more
If Then: How One Data Company Invented the Future by Jill Lepore
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Category: Current Affairs
Radio 4's Book of the WeekA Financial Times Book of the YearShortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times / McKinsey Business Book of the YearLonglisted for the National Book Award'The story of the original data science hucksters of the 1960s is hilarious, scathing and sobering - what you might get if you cr ...Show more
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution by Vincent Bevins
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Category: Current Affairs
From 2010 to 2020, more people took part in protests than at any other point in human history. Why has success been so elusive? From the so-called Arab Spring to Gezi Park in Turkey, from Ukraine's Euromaidan to student rebellions in Chile and Hong Kong, the second decade of the twenty-first century wa ...Show more
I'll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It! - Heretical Thoughts on Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, and Academic Freedom by Norman Finkelstein (Contribution by)
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Category: Current Affairs
Originating as a response to the 2020 publication of "A Letter on Justice and Open Debate" in Harper's, Finkelstein's new book I'll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It takes aim at both "cancel culture" and "identity politics". Critiquing everyone from Robin DiAngelo to Barack Obama, Finkelstein delivers ...Show more