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By Mark Buchanan

Articles from the author

Magical thinking won’t stop climate change

Assumptions about negative carbon emissions amount to a bizarre step in what ought to be a cautious and conservative analysis
2m read
AFP

EU may be too inflexible to survive

Uncompromising attempts to bind Europe together may instead hasten its abrupt and unmanageable dissolution, with unknown consequences
3m read
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The spectre of wealth inequality

Today’s wealth inequality probably is not the result of any economic conspiracy
3m read
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Why we fear spiders more than climate change

Information campaigns could be far more effective in changing behaviour than policies targeting the calculating mind through monetary incentives
3m read
Why we fear spiders more than climate change

Modern finance violates principle of hierarchy

High concentration of big banks and interlinked derivatives is a sure recipe for instability
4m read
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What happens when technology gets out of hand

There is a probability that technology can become so complex and start evolving so rapidly that humans can’t imagine the consequences of some new action
3m read
Arshad Ali/Gulf News Archive

We still don’t know how bad can Ebola be

Ebola is not solely a biological problem
3m read
AFP

Why fake news spreads so quickly on Facebook

Ad technology has weaponised disinformation
3m read
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