Does Disappearing Sea Ice Even Matter? Here’s What We’re Reading Today
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Here’s what’s happening today:
1. Disappearing Act
“In the vast and chaotic climate systems that govern our atmosphere and oceans, making sense of how one change — diminished sea ice — affects places or people thousands of miles away is a task of such extraordinary complexity that it strains even the most sophisticated supercomputers.”
3. Noise is a drug and we’re all addicts
“We may complain about a defining feature of the city, but we also feed off it.”
2. Africa’s “KINGS” countries will drive its digital economies
In Kenya, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and South Africa “the availability of mobile broadband is enabling their digital natives and millennials to unleash their creative juices and entrepreneurial prowess to address social challenges and market gabs and pain-points using innovative mobile web technology — disrupting existing markets.”
4. Why Wikileaks is losing its friends
“In a week where Wikileaks’s power has been on full display, the organization’s simplified view of the world is making many of its allies uncomfortable.”
5. Remember when Nazi Germany hosted the Olympics
“The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.”
