The End of Startups, Ecuador Biodiversity, and Cambridge Analytica

China’s Gaming Companies No Longer Focusing On Male-Only Players

In recent months, games designed for a female audience have achieved unprecedented popularity, though more hardcore games are also proving popular and attracting record numbers of female players.

How the financial crash made our cities unaffordable

Since 2008, property markets in the world’s major cities have ‘synchronised’ and left nations and citizens behind

A Century of Humiliation: Understanding the Chinese Mindset

The West has mostly forgotten about these events, with the Opium Wars relegated as a brief footnote in history.

However, to understand modern China requires an analysis of its Century of Humiliation to grasp the motivations of the CCP.

This century of malaise began on a fateful day: November 3rd, 1839.

Why Don’t Americans Use Bidets?

Invented centuries ago in France, the bidet has never taken off in the States. That might be changing.

Here’s how Facebook allowed Cambridge Analytica to get data for 50 million users

Cambridge Analytica, the data analytics firm that helped Donald Trump get elected president, amassed a trove of Facebook user data for some 50 million people without ever getting their permission.

Why Ecuador’s rich biodiversity is under threat from mining interests

In the last year, the Ecuadorean government has quietly granted mining concessions to over 1.7 million hectares – 4.25 million acres – of forest reserves and indigenous territories.

These were awarded to transnational corporations in closed-door deals without public knowledge or consent.

After the end of the startup era