Category: Travel
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Tokyo’s Brilliant Strategic Maneuvering
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The future of robotics and finance is moving east with two major announcements out of Tokyo today.
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The Stonemasons of Pučišća, Croatia
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Ideas from the stonemason school on the Croatian island of Brač could be useful in solving unemployment problems around the world.
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Emperor Diocletian’s Peristyle in Split, Croatia
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History is powerful. It teaches you what works, what doesn’t, and why people behave the way they do. It may even help to predict the future.
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Sweden’s Spectacular Circular Economy
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Sweden is creating jobs and preserving the environment using a powerful incentive: taxes.
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Hadrian’s Wall
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A new robot named ‘Hadrian’ shows how quickly automation will disrupt the global workforce. Presumably named after the wall built in Northern Britain by the Romans in 122AD, this robot can lay 1,000 bricks per hour.
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Passion for Preservation
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A feeding of wild deer shows the depth of Germany’s passion for environmental preservation.
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Twilight in Venice
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Venice is being threatened by rising sea levels, pollution, and excessive tourism. It will take a lightning bolt of engineering and commercial ingenuity to save it.
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The Exotic Entrepreneur
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A trip to East Asia reveals an agricultural disequilibrium. For some entrepreneurs, that spells money.
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Hope Under Pressure
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The world is locked into a supercomputer arms race. This is exactly what we need right now.
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Finding Focaccia in Bari, Italy
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Overcoming my doubt about the efficacy of this Italian savory treat to satisfy my hunger, Tricia and I stepped into a hole-in-the-wall in Italy’s southern city of Bari to procure a slice. The experience was more than I bargained for.