Seeing in the dark ??
PEOPLE — Alexander Bremin: A crypto-hedge fund manager with night vision – Bill Wirtz for ftn.media: He is 23 years old, produces night vision equipment and manages bitcoin investments.
ACTIVISM — From red to green – Roberta Dombrovskytė for ftn.media: Support for cannabis legalization grows like weed in Lithuania. A new art installation is “supposed to encourage the dialogue for drug liberalisation in countries with sovietic hangovers.”
ECONOMICS — At a right angle – The Economist: Germany's economic east-west divide is disappearing and a north-south divide is emerging.
SCIENCE — You've come a long way, baby – Dom Galeon for futurism.com: Researchers have discovered what could be a huge clue in understanding how animal life emerged on Earth. They claim that when Earth melted from an icy snowball, the resulting flood of nutrients sparked the evolution of complex ecosystems.
MEDIA — Aiding and abetting – Jenna McLaughlin for foreignpolicy.com: Wikileaks is not neutral. They refused to publish documents that would have harmed the Russian government.
POLITICS — My classmate, the Nazi leader – Graeme Wood for theatlantic.com: A peek into the mind of the alt-right mastermind Richard Spencer.
MILITARY — Kimpossible – Hank Green for SciShow on youtube.com: Fortunately, North Korea will have trouble building a missile that can deliver nuclear warheads. Here's why.
GENETICS — Breakneck speed – Brad Jones for futurism.com: Genetics breakthrough CRISPR is “ just another technology that’s only as good as the people using it.”
ACTIVISM — The pen, mightier than the sword – Mong Palatino for advox.globalvoices.org: Malaysian political cartoonist Zunar is demanding the police to return books and t-shirts which were seized during his arrest last December 17, 2016.
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