As many as 2.5 billion people worldwide need but do not have eyeglasses. The Vision Council of America suggests that 75 percent of adults need eyeglasses to read, drive and work. Glasses, often taken for granted in developed nations, support worker productivity and safety. Yet millions worldwide...
Early curiosity: Protestant reformer Johannes Honter of Transylvania made the 1542 hand-colored map of the world, Universalis cosmographia (Source: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
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The United States, reporting 33 percent of the world’s Covid-19 cases with 4 percent of the population, has stepped back from global leadership. A bungled pandemic response delivered a blow to US moral and intellectual standing. “After having cut off funding for WHO – a critical player in these...
As Japan’s economy stagnates, young men stuck in menial jobs use the internet to plan demonstrations against foreign influences. Their “main purpose seems to be venting frustration, both about Japan’s diminished stature and in their own personal economic difficulties,” explains Martin Fackler for...
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Extremists continue to demonstrate that they can thwart the technological superiority of the modern world. The radicals may not gain much in the way of territory or even converts to their cause, but they certainly needle world leaders and instigate fear among substantial segments of populations of...
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Weibo, China’s microblog that’s celebrating its third anniversary this month, offers a national platform for ordinary citizens to hold the powerful to account. In an instant, an ordinary citizen can launch a public debate or shame government and corporate officials by posting photos, videos,...
Ready, aim, text: With Weibo, China has a new army of microbloggers, some 350 million in all, ready to offer ideas for improving every aspect of their society
BEIJING: It was the last straw for Shanghai graduate student Wu Heng, when he heard that...
Domain names ending in dot.nu – “nu” meaning “now” in Swedish – sell like hot cakes in Sweden. The rights to operate dot-nu domain names, accorded to the US-based entrepreneur Bill Semich in the late 1990s, have earned him financial success. Semich has applied some of his newfound profits to the...
The arrival of the Internet brought a rare bit of good fortune to Niue, a tiny, impoverished island in the South Pacific.
Its national Internet suffix, dot-nu, has become a big hit in Sweden, as "nu" means "now...
