EDITORIAL
This week's edition include an article about the controversial European elections highlighting that the results are only the reflections of what it awaits when the left (in this particular case, but it can be the other way around) fails to live up to its promises. Self-driving cars and surveillance is it something that we should be worrying about? Read about it in our Science & Technology section. In Design, Business and Innovation the cheapest 3-D Printer developed by Frog Ventures, and why is the dead of the hompage give rise to news that's more about readers? Nan Goldin taking children and Instagram via Dazed Digital and an interesting discussion on the perspectives of humanities Ph.Ds graduates via The Atlantic in our Culture & Entertainment section. In Dog We Trust talks about breeds and sterotypes, what happens if your dog behaves differently than he is "supposed" to, and introduce us to the incredibly cute Vegas, the boston.
Happy Sunday, happy June and happy reading!
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| Illustration via Jean Jullien. |
"The extraordinary success of Marine Le Pen’s National Front, in France, and of other right-wing, populist parties has, with good reason, been the main story of last weekend’s European Parliamentary elections. Running on an anti-euro, anti-immigration platform, Le Pen won a historic twenty-five per cent of the vote, handily outpolling France’s main conservative party, the U.M.P., which earned only twenty-one per cent, and trouncing the Socialist Party of President François Hollande, which received an alarmingly small fourteen per cent. But Sunday’s election also produced another surprising, historic result, which has received much less attention: in Italy, Matteo Renzi, of the Democratic Party, won forty-one per cent of the vote, the largest total ever for a left-of-center party in Italy, a curious countertrend on a day marked by the advance of the right.
Placed in juxtaposition, the result in Italy helps us to understand why the vote in France turned out as it did; the French election could serve as a sobering warning to Renzi about what may await him if he fails to live up to his promises." Read full article in The New Yorker. E.T.P. 5'
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| Photo Reuters via The Economist. |
The World Cup is still two weeks away, but for children worldwide (plus disturbing number of adults), the race to complete the Panini Brazil 2014 sticker book started long ago. Panini, an Italian firm, hast produced sticker albums for World Cups since the tournament in Mexico in 1970; this year's version has 640 stickers to collect. The market for the stickers is not just for kids, however; it is also for micro-economis. Getting every slot filled delivers an early lesson in probability; the value of statistical tests; the laws of supply and demand; and the importance of liquidity. Read full article in The Economist. E.T.P. 3'
THE
World Cup is still two weeks away, but for children worldwide (plus
disturbing numbers of adults), the race to complete the Panini Brazil
2014 sticker book started long ago. Panini, an Italian firm, has
produced sticker albums for World Cups since the tournament in Mexico in
1970; this year’s version has 640 stickers to collect (Brazilians are
being forced to find nine sponsor cards, too). The market for the
stickers is not just for kids, however; it is also for micro-economists.
Getting every slot filled delivers an early lesson in probability; the
value of statistical tests; the laws of supply and demand; and the
importance of liquidity. - See more at:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/05/economist-explains-13?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/bl/ee/tr/theeconomicsofpaninifootballstickers#sthash.QXGp6ZiJ.dpuf
THE
World Cup is still two weeks away, but for children worldwide (plus
disturbing numbers of adults), the race to complete the Panini Brazil
2014 sticker book started long ago. Panini, an Italian firm, has
produced sticker albums for World Cups since the tournament in Mexico in
1970; this year’s version has 640 stickers to collect (Brazilians are
being forced to find nine sponsor cards, too). The market for the
stickers is not just for kids, however; it is also for micro-economists.
Getting every slot filled delivers an early lesson in probability; the
value of statistical tests; the laws of supply and demand; and the
importance of liquidity. - See more at:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/05/economist-explains-13?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/bl/ee/tr/theeconomicsofpaninifootballstickers#sthash.QXGp6ZiJ.dpuf
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