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“Hip Hop Caucus represents the streets, it represents those who have a message to tell and who won’t be quiet,...
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Good news: the power of true happiness can be discovered collectively. Australian-born, British-based socialist feminist academic and cheery activist Lynne Segal...
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“We know a new politics of solidarity, individual responsibility and collective transformation is urgently needed. Can we culturally educate ourselves...
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In the small Afro-Indigenous community of Cabelo Seco in Brazil, an arts-as-transformation project is addressing the survival and transformation of...
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Imagine if you could get a 'city' to agree to making the world more self-sufficient. A creative team of pioneers and...
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"The youth are co-creators, coordinators and researchers of everything that Rios de Encontro does." – Dan Baron Cohen, Co-founder, Rios...
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Big in Japan: the global goals can seem too big to make a difference. That’s where the 2030 SDGs Game comes...
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"It's just as important listening to these stories as it is fairy tales." Today there’s an increasing recognition of the...
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Did you know you don't always have to cook with food? As part of our new CultureFutures project we’ve been...
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Did you hear the one about the hot tub, the actor and the quantum physicist? How about the one with...
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“Gastronomical culture and food heritage is very important. We have a responsibility to acknowledge Bolivian products and work with them...
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Ground control to major impact! dashboard.earth wants you to feel good while helping the planet – and be rewarded while...
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An experimental organic farmers’ market set up by a ‘culinary activist’ is breaking down religious and cultural barriers in the...
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Science and engineering is the most fascinating story on earth in the hands of the right storyteller. "It’s in the...
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Let us take you inside an old school made from recycled theatre salvage, decommissioned bio labs and art freight containers...
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The stage is a boxing ring, an empty house, a vast factory floor. The props have been taken from a...
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“We want to drive political action with our work, and I don’t think you can do that sitting down.” –...
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"It’s in the freely shared ideas that collisions, oddities and thrills emerge." – Mary Anne Moser, Beakerhead Co-founder Widely known...
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In today's world, platforms like AirBnb and Uber are increasingly creating connections and exchanges. Platform co-ops want to go one step further...
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An anonymous pirate radio DJ in Nairobi, ‘electro-modern’ remixes in Costa Rica, slum kids with cameras in Argentina and miraculous...
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Creating opportunities for women is exactly what Raven + Lily is all about. A flagbearer for gender equality and female...
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"Do you have any family or friends that you’d like to record a message for?" A walk along Market Street in San...
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One face forward, another facing back: you’re looking at Jirondai, the legendary shaman with two faces. He gives his name...
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An anonymous pirate radio DJ is sharing positive ideas, encouraging young East Africans to take action to improve their lives...
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In the sprawling high plains of the Free State province of South Africa, Conchita Milburn is playing a key part...
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In Argentina, the term villa miseria is used to describe the impoverished shanty towns that exist within large urban settlements. And in Buenos...
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From culinary creativity and food fads to a dystopian future soil crisis, friends of the Atlas ask Dan Barber –...
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Out of the mouths of babes… come wondrous ideas and fantastical plans. Ever seen a rucksack with wings? How about...
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Back in 2011 in Rwanda, 16 years after the genocide against the Tutsi sent shock waves across the world, creative...
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A photographer called Jose Martínez took the picture below. He calls it ‘End of discrimination’. Jose is one of the...
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"I recognise the power of the chef in today’s world. Traditions and cultural connections should be front and centre – chefs...
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On paper it looks weird: A three day congress dedicated to technology and innovation taking place in the heart of...
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To read The Third Plate is not only to take an extraordinary journey in the company of chef and writer...
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Drawing from their backgrounds in fashion, advertising, the entertainment industries and social organizations (or NGOs), in 2011 four dynamic Paraguayan entrepreneurs cooked up Koga,...
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In old Norse mythology the Aesir are the principal gods of the pantheon. In present day Hong Kong AESIR are serious games for social inclusion....
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Priya is a ‘rape survivor superhero’. Together these three words are shattering taboos in India, thanks to the powerful comic...
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Imagine being stuck in a room you can’t escape. You hear voices: “Do it!” “Stop it!” Light shoots out of...
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Something special is happening inside an old school made from recycled salvage from a theatre company, decommissioned bio labs and...
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A video shows a local football match kicking off in El Madania, Algeria; another takes us to Cotonou, Benin, to...
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Girl bikers, transgender activists, divorcee entrepreneurs and female cricket journalists; this digital platform shows you a different side of Pakistan....
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Turning the silver screen green and providing a ray of light in South Africa (literally), Sunshine Cinema is not just an...
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Brazil’s culture-friendly tax law, a bus trip in India where he met his future wife and a desire to dive...
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One person’s toxic e-waste dump is another’s treasure workshop. That's why a Ghana-based architect duo have launched AMP (Agbogbloshie Makerspace...
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Britain’s most ethical restaurant doesn’t have a bin. Founded by ex-St John chef Dougie McMaster, the team at Silo brews its own...
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"We either build the future we want, or become the victims of it." As Director of Fab Lab Barcelona at the Institute for...
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As the world's population continues to grow, industry has begun to affect even the most remote of places. As well...
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The aquaponics game is fun, and now Aquapioneers wants to show Barcelona that it's also easy to harvest fish and grow food without...
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Our W.I.S.H : Wisdom through Well-being, Inspiring confidence and a creative mind set for the next generation, Shaping the future in...
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Future curious? On 13 March a future-‘supergroup’ will gather for the first time in Barcelona. Brought to you by Atlas...
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A microgreen-fingered hydroponic hero is proving that ‘zero km’ is possible – in London’s disused bomb shelters. With his groundbreaking subterranean...
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"Imagine if you could take billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year, safely, effectively, economically and...
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Innovative outdoor brand Houdini Sportswear is creating sportswear so pure that you can eat it. Based in Sweden, with a passion...
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The world is full of different people and cultures, each with their own unique stories to tell. Getting children to...
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There is no better time to reboot our world than right now, which means there is no better time to...
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When you find yourselves somewhere between Gotham City Police HQ and Blade Runner’s Leon’s Hotel chatting to a Westworld sexbot you...
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In the late 18th century a small group of remarkable friends met at a house outside Birmingham, UK, got blind drunk...
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Every year in Senegal thousands of tonnes of fruit are thrown away due to the lack of initiatives for processing...
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A festival in a coastline settlement in Lagos is challenging the notion of art in the white cube. Iwaya Community Art...
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Creative resistance Circuito Rolezinho is a new way of thinking about the reality of being young, black and alive in...
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In a part of the world that is modernising as quickly in some regions as others are being destroyed, it...
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Language is a tricky thing: vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and numerous irregularities and inconsistencies. If that’s not enough, regional differences and...
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Every year Sónar+D forms a key part of the stamina-pushing Sónar Festival, one of Europe's biggest and most forward-thinking dance music events. If you...
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Located in Bermondsey, London inside an old school and made from recycled salvage from a local theatre company, decommissioned bio...
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Although farming still seems like an un-cool career option to many young people, Mmabatho Morudi wants to change the face of agriculture: "It’s...
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A UK publication is on a mission to convey that it’s ok for men to talk about sensitive things and...
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Robots and humans are working together to save water, enhance agriculture and make wine lovers very, very happy. An estimated...
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Insects often get a bad press. In reality, however, they can provide essential functions in agriculture and other areas. The...
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Hacker, activist, geek and poet Birgitta Jónsdóttir is best known for founding Iceland's Pirate Party – a movement of anarchists and techies that asks for direct democratic...
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Playboy is bringing back naked models... and women's rights activists are loving it. Just before Valentine's Day, only one year after...
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Now you are welcome to download a virtual van Gogh without having to pay an arm, a leg or an ear for...
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It is now more important than ever that communities of people take a stand for the things they believe, and...
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As the world turns upside down and unhinged becomes the new normal, we want to provide some positivity from within...
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In the late 19th century a travelling book salesman had a revolutionary idea – to get women to sell beauty...
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Climate change is real. Musk knows it, the Pope knows it and Obama knows it. With their new film, 'Before...
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Marcus Shingles believes failure is meant to define the true parameters of what real success could look like: "If you’re...
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Mobile Internet is rapidly becoming a primary source of knowledge for rural populations in developing countries. But not every one...
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For decades, the high prices of computers has prevented most of the world’s population from being able to buy PCs...
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From plant pots to art installations, the humble plastic bottle has been recycled in a wide variety of ways. However,...
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This year might have had its dark times, but there are many reasons to get excited. From the Faroe Islands to Patagonia,...
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With rice being a major staple of diet in Japan, agriculture is a massively important industry. Japanese IT firm OPTiM and Saga University...
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Poor nutrition causes nearly half of death in children under five and 3.1 million people die each year. The 3 Million...
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The words ‘unmanned aerial vehicle’ (UAV) may not sound particularly exciting, but use the more common name – drone – and a much...
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Our friends the bees are in scarily rapid decline worldwide due to Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), a phenomenon caused by pesticides, parasites,...
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Our thirst for computer programs and mobile apps shows no sign of abating. From online to the impending launch of...
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Amirah Sackett is break(dancing) stereotypes by using hip-hop to promote religious tolerance. With her female Muslim dance group We're Muslim, Don't Panic,...
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Harvesting edible insects in desktop hives, LIVIN Farms has developed a plug-in kitchen appliance for raising mealworms on your desktop as a...
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Today mankind does incredible things. Thirty years of digital revolution have brought previously unimaginable advances in the way we live...
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Plants are more intelligent than we often give them credit for. Over billions of years of evolution they have had to...
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The soft and silky long staples of Egypt’s high quality, extra-long staple (ELS) cotton make it ideal for the production...
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“Africa has a very rich storytelling history but because the delivery of these stories was mostly oral we lost a...
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One company that is helping to transform China’s image from manufacturer to innovator is DJI. The Shenzhen-based drone maker now...
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Everyone is guilty of buying stuff that they secretly know won’t last and will end up in a landfill, in...
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Spreading a message of "You can do it!" all around the world, peacebuilding practitioner Helena Puig Larrauri facilitates projects through technology – from...
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Atlas of the Future is looking for a dynamic and results-driven Community Manager based in Barcelona to develop and execute...
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Connectivity has been top of the agenda at Mobile World Congress this year and Facebook's new project, announced at the Congress, aims to bring...
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The popular 1990s' computer game SimCity gave people the freedom to design and build their own metropolis. Today the ‘make your...
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The world isn’t just losing its biodiversity; human cultures are at risk as well. Across the globe indigenous peoples suffer...
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Aligning nature and technology near the Balinese town of Ubud exists an off-grid international school whose mission is to be 'the number...
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Spoiler Alert: In The Martian (2015), a stranded astronaut farms potatoes to survive on the Red Planet – and Matt...
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Good news for those with scratched, lost or damaged vocal cords through surgery or disease; a team at the University...
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From a Noah’s Ark of seeds and American Idol for rural farmers to 3D printing prosthetics in conflict zones and...
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Recently NASA has felt more on the radar than usual. With Major Tim Peake – the first official British astronaut...
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The village farmer and holistic grazer’s top 5 ways to regenerate agriculture – from mushroom-related technologies to the Noah’s Ark...
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Our friends – and now partners – at Collectively interviewed Atlas editor Lisa Goldapple about our 'enormous map', the brilliant breakthrough...
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Buying good-quality local meat can be very expensive and not always accessible for cash-strapped carnivores, locavores (people who like to...
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The Devon dairy farmer’s daughter – who left the Pacific to come home and start a little revolution with Village Farm – on the...
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The Croatian-born 3D computational artist, geneticist and 'data-friendly Elvis' on the beauty of maths, transmitting emotions as visuals and data...
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In the late 18th century a small group of remarkable friends met at a house outside Birmingham, UK, got blind...
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The Human Rights Foundation is a small operation with an annual budget of $3.9 million, yet it has chosen to...
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As humans we channel a staggering 70% of freshwater consumption into agriculture and industry, but urbanisation is making it harder to...
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The lead founder behind the revolutionary WikiHouse – the digitally manufactured building system that anyone can download and make –...
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You may have heard of the Internet of Things - the idea that all physical objects communicate data over the...
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Populations in South East Asia have had to live with haze (poor air quality from pollution) for decades, but intensive...
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The living component of soil is integral to landscape processes. Made up of incredibly diverse organisms from one-celled bacteria and...
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In the world’s most northern orphanage on the heart-shaped little Arctic island of Uummannaq, Greenlandic kids used to enjoy weekends...
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Apple has never been shy about promoting its green credentials but it is their latest project in China that is...
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BMW and Chinese search engine Baidu have successfully tested driverless car in Beijing. Baidu are China’s answer to Google and, as...
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IBM's game show-winning Watson is a supercomputer like no other. It can take data from any of the digital sources...
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"It is our responsibility to enable every young person to make to learn and learn to make," says David Sengeh, Global...
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Around 70 percent of worldwide epidemic diseases, such as Sars, West Nile virus or bird flu, are the result of animal-human...
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This free floating, untethered deep ocean fish habitat looks like a giant underwater hamster ball: Aquapods are giant, free range fish...
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A Dutch designer has reimagined the roads of tomorrow, designing a ‘Smart Highway’ to make them safer while saving money...
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Scallops with cultured caviar to start, followed by a stem cell pork shoulder, and a delicious beef-berry tart for dessert...
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To give it its full – if unwieldy – title, the Núcleo de Empreendedorismo da USP (Entrepreneurship Nucleus of the University of São...
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From companies to supply chains, and urban to agricultural areas, we live in a world of complex systems designed centuries...
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I'm thrilled to introduce myself as editor-in-chief of Atlas of the Future, the new international Barcelona-London venture from Oriol Soler, Cathy...
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