Machine Learning and Humanities, Climate Change & Silicon Valley

Machine learning can offer new tools, fresh insights for the humanities

From the French Revolution to the history of the novel, Big Data makes its mark.

How climate change caused the world’s first ever empire to collapse

The stories of abrupt climate change in the Middle East therefore echo over millennia to the present day.

How Silicon Valley is finally growing up (sort of)

It’s still the land of opportunity, but now it’s confronting the human cost of its success. The new buzzwords: responsibility and empathy.

The Price of Greed

And so it goes with investing. Any short tour of financial history will provide plenty examples of men (historically, it has almost always been men) who let greed get the better of them.

How 300 Years of Urbanization and Farming Transformed the Planet

Three centuries ago, humans were intensely using just around 5 percent of the Earth’s land. Now, it’s almost half.