What the Trump national security strategy gets right

The Trump administration recently released its National Security Strategy (NSS), as mandated by the Goldwater-Nichols Act of ...

Floating cities, shrunken rivers: World-building is taking off in Indian cinema

Gone are the tales set in familiar myth and lore. In their place: An India that was never colonised, a clan of superheroes, new weaponry and invented languages.
CEOWORLD magazine

Aleksey Safaralikhonov: Predictability depends less on technology choices and more on whether change is managed as a business system.

An award-winning business transformation leader and international industry juror explains why large-scale modernization only becomes predictable when organizations design accountability and decision ...

The Latest: Milan Cortina Winter Olympics kicks off with a four-site, two-cauldron opening ceremony

MILAN (AP) — An unprecedented four-site, dual-cauldron Winter Olympics opening ceremony replete with references to Italian icons and culture has officially kicked off the Milan Cortina Games, as the ...

The CIA World Factbook is dead. Here's how I came to love it

The Factbook survived the Cold War and became a hit online. It mixed quirky cultural notes and trivia with maps, data, and ...

To Study Antarctic Ice Rifts, You Have to Throw a Few ‘Bombs’

The fastest way into the gaps between gigantic blocks of a broken-up glacier is by lowering instruments from above, through ...

Why do disasters still happen, despite early warnings? Because systems are built to wait for certainty

Scientists can warn of a risk of floods days in advance. But forecasts often aren’t definitive enough to trigger action.
Smithsonian Magazine

After the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Wrecked the Planet, Life May Have Bounced Back Surprisingly Fast

Some 66 million years ago, life on Earth had a pretty bad day. The infamous Chicxulub asteroid slammed into the planet. The ...