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The evolution of the Internet has had a profound impact on democracy – and according to Mike Sosteric of Canada’s Athabasca University, mostly for the worse. He argues that World War Three is taking place in cyberspace. Hostile foreign powers and even tech companies aren’t attacking us with bullets and bombs; they’re doing it with bits and bytes.
Elsewhere, follow our experts from around the world as they investigate the uncertain future of economics, the political power of Gabonese hip-hop, and the superhero tree that can help treat diabetes.
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There’s a global war going on, and a global arms race to go with it. It’s not a race for physical weapons, it’s a race to develop cyber weapons of psychological, emotional, financial and infrastructure attack.
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Dr. Mike Sosteric, Athabasca University
Hostile foreign powers and even tech companies are not attacking us with bullets and bombs; they're doing it with bits and bytes. What can we do about the third world war being waged in cyberspace?
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Arts + Culture
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Alice Aterianus-Owanga, University of Lausanne
Rap has become instrumental in constructing identity and radically reshaping relations to politics in Gabon and other African states.
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John Mcauliffe, University of Manchester
The prize committee has opted for a more traditional laureate this year, nominating a traditional novelist after last year's controversial choice of Bob Dylan.
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Business + Economy
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Fabrizio Carmignani, Griffith University
Taking a look at the likely contenders for the Memorial Prize in Economics gives us an idea of where economics is and where it is headed.
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Environment + Energy
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Hakim Abdi, Lund University
It's wrong to blame climate change for famine and conflict. These can either be prevented, or the impact minimised, if institutions and mechanisms of good governance are in place.
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Health + Medicine
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Carrie Waterman, University of California, Davis
Every part of the Moringa tree can be consumed: leaves and its pods) can be eaten and the seeds, bark, flowers and roots can be used as medicine.
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Politics + Society
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Kristin Mmari, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Do boys and girls from diverse cultural settings experience their transitions into adolescence? Their cultural differences don't make a difference, but their genders do.
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William M. LeoGrande, American University
After a baffling, silent attack on US Embassy staff in Havana, the Trump administration is using concern over its diplomats' health as an excuse to reverse Obama's rapprochement with Cuba.
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Science + Technology
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Thomas Woolley, Cardiff University
A mathematician has joined the dots between Alan Turing and chasing cells to find out how skin patterns are formed.
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