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"Impressive mobile phone ownership rates, yet continued inequality" voxdev.org/topic/unders...
November 11, 2025 at 5:16 AM
"Impressive mobile phone ownership rates, yet continued inequality" voxdev.org/topic/unders...
The goal of the KMASS program is to deliver user specific knowledge “nuggets” that are useful for a current task—whether the knowledge is requested or not by the user—exactly when needed, while avoiding irrelevant information www.darpa.mil/research/pro...
November 11, 2025 at 5:06 AM
The goal of the KMASS program is to deliver user specific knowledge “nuggets” that are useful for a current task—whether the knowledge is requested or not by the user—exactly when needed, while avoiding irrelevant information www.darpa.mil/research/pro...
Rather than treating symptoms one heatwave at a time, Athens is reframing heat as a systemic urban challenge — one that cuts across housing, health, planning, and social policy apolitical.co/solution-art...
How Athens is Living with Extreme Heat
Europe’s hottest capital turns extreme heat from a crisis into a governance challenge
apolitical.co
November 11, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Rather than treating symptoms one heatwave at a time, Athens is reframing heat as a systemic urban challenge — one that cuts across housing, health, planning, and social policy apolitical.co/solution-art...
This paper argues for moving beyond simple quantification toward richer expressions of uncertainty essential for integrating AI in professional work academic.oup.com/rssdat/artic...
Beyond Quantification: Navigating Uncertainty in Professional AI Systems
Abstract. The growing integration of large language models across professional domains transforms how experts make critical decisions in healthcare, educat
academic.oup.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:25 AM
This paper argues for moving beyond simple quantification toward richer expressions of uncertainty essential for integrating AI in professional work academic.oup.com/rssdat/artic...
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Everything old is urgent again: local economic development 101 www.brookings.edu/articles/eco... Why land use tools should be upgraded to promote more inclusive economic development
Economic development in its place | Brookings
This report shows why and how land use tools should be upgraded to promote more inclusive and effective economic development.
www.brookings.edu
November 10, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Everything old is urgent again: local economic development 101 www.brookings.edu/articles/eco... Why land use tools should be upgraded to promote more inclusive economic development
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Starting in 2026, startups seeking government-backed innovation programs will need to demonstrate compliance with worker welfare standards, including active participation in Korea’s retirement pension system koreatechdesk.com/korea-startu...
Korea Links Startup Policy to Worker Welfare: New ESG Standard for Innovation - KoreaTechDesk | Korean Startup and Technology News
Korea ties startup funding to employee welfare, setting a new ESG benchmark that reshapes innovation policy and investor confidence in Asia’s tech ecosystem.
koreatechdesk.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Starting in 2026, startups seeking government-backed innovation programs will need to demonstrate compliance with worker welfare standards, including active participation in Korea’s retirement pension system koreatechdesk.com/korea-startu...
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"Our mission remains clear: to normalize failure, negative and null results, and to question incentives that distort knowledge production" blog.trialanderror.org/trial-and-er...
Trial & Error Symposium 2025: Honesty, Openness, and Cultural Change
Trial & Error Symposium 2025: Honesty, Openness, and Cultural Change
blog.trialanderror.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
"Our mission remains clear: to normalize failure, negative and null results, and to question incentives that distort knowledge production" blog.trialanderror.org/trial-and-er...
[Oh well...] Agentic brains and ‘digital gardeners’: How one CEO runs his AI office www.semafor.com/article/11/0...
Agentic brains and ‘digital gardeners’: How one CEO runs his AI office
Weber Shandwick’s Jim O’Leary says agents need to be watered, fertilized, and weeded.
www.semafor.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:22 AM
[Oh well...] Agentic brains and ‘digital gardeners’: How one CEO runs his AI office www.semafor.com/article/11/0...
City Imaginarium undpeurasia.exposure.co/cityimaginar...
CITY IMAGINARIUM by UNDP Eurasia
UNDP’s City Imaginarium campaign invites 12 illustrators from across the region to reimagine greener, more inclusive and more resilient urban futures.
undpeurasia.exposure.co
November 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
City Imaginarium undpeurasia.exposure.co/cityimaginar...
"Our mission remains clear: to normalize failure, negative and null results, and to question incentives that distort knowledge production" blog.trialanderror.org/trial-and-er...
Trial & Error Symposium 2025: Honesty, Openness, and Cultural Change
Trial & Error Symposium 2025: Honesty, Openness, and Cultural Change
blog.trialanderror.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
"Our mission remains clear: to normalize failure, negative and null results, and to question incentives that distort knowledge production" blog.trialanderror.org/trial-and-er...
A new digital exhibition focused on failure in science museumoffailure.com/exhibitions/...
Science & Medicine Failure — Museum of Failure
Organizations need to improve their willingness to accept and learn from failure, even when the stakes are high. Yes, that even applies to researchers and medicine. Failure is essential to science. Ex...
museumoffailure.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
A new digital exhibition focused on failure in science museumoffailure.com/exhibitions/...
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As the world looks to COP30 this month, we’ve been thinking about how hard it can be to truly care about climate change when the conversations around it often feel distant. Yet, we feel its effects daily—the days are unbearably hot, the nights less cool, and the weather more unpredictable.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:37 AM
As the world looks to COP30 this month, we’ve been thinking about how hard it can be to truly care about climate change when the conversations around it often feel distant. Yet, we feel its effects daily—the days are unbearably hot, the nights less cool, and the weather more unpredictable.
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A prisoner in the Arizona State Prison system decided to reconnect with his Welsh heritage by studying the Welsh language. Now he leads a group of inmates who are independently studying endangered, ancient, and vulnerable languages—Welsh, Brittonic, Assyrian, Old Norse, Taíno, Nahuatl, and Guosa.
'I've never been so excited': Inmate-led program preserves endangered languages behind Az bars
Thomas Steres, an inmate in Arizona, founded the Linguistic Legacies Initiative to teach endangered languages such as Welsh, Nahuatl and Guosa while incarcerated in a state prison in Buckeye, Ariz.
www.tucsonsentinel.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
A prisoner in the Arizona State Prison system decided to reconnect with his Welsh heritage by studying the Welsh language. Now he leads a group of inmates who are independently studying endangered, ancient, and vulnerable languages—Welsh, Brittonic, Assyrian, Old Norse, Taíno, Nahuatl, and Guosa.
The future care landscape in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam investinginwomen.asia/knowledge/fu...
Future Demand for Care in Indonesia, the Philippines & Vietnam - Investing In Women
This report explores the future demand for care in Southeast Asia, focusing on Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam.
investinginwomen.asia
November 10, 2025 at 5:19 AM
The future care landscape in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam investinginwomen.asia/knowledge/fu...
New flavours of technosolutionism www.noemamag.com/the-infrastr...
The Infrastructure Of Planetary Sapience | NOEMA
A maturing technosphere can achieve balance with the biosphere.
www.noemamag.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:07 AM
New flavours of technosolutionism www.noemamag.com/the-infrastr...
Starting in 2026, startups seeking government-backed innovation programs will need to demonstrate compliance with worker welfare standards, including active participation in Korea’s retirement pension system koreatechdesk.com/korea-startu...
Korea Links Startup Policy to Worker Welfare: New ESG Standard for Innovation - KoreaTechDesk | Korean Startup and Technology News
Korea ties startup funding to employee welfare, setting a new ESG benchmark that reshapes innovation policy and investor confidence in Asia’s tech ecosystem.
koreatechdesk.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Starting in 2026, startups seeking government-backed innovation programs will need to demonstrate compliance with worker welfare standards, including active participation in Korea’s retirement pension system koreatechdesk.com/korea-startu...
"One thing with polar bears that we learned along the way is they're sort of built to evade radar, in large part due to their fur" weather.com/news/news/20...
AI-Powered Radar Is Protecting Polar Bears | Weather.com
The innovation is only one of several high tech operations looking for new ways to protect polar bears as climate change threatens the survival of the species.
weather.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 AM
"One thing with polar bears that we learned along the way is they're sort of built to evade radar, in large part due to their fur" weather.com/news/news/20...
Everything old is urgent again: local economic development 101 www.brookings.edu/articles/eco... Why land use tools should be upgraded to promote more inclusive economic development
Economic development in its place | Brookings
This report shows why and how land use tools should be upgraded to promote more inclusive and effective economic development.
www.brookings.edu
November 10, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Everything old is urgent again: local economic development 101 www.brookings.edu/articles/eco... Why land use tools should be upgraded to promote more inclusive economic development
Testing-in-the-wild: innovation nationalism and the colonial dynamics of new technology testbeds journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Testing-in-the-wild: Innovation nationalism and the colonial dynamics of new technology testbeds - Thao Phan, 2025
This article examines the phenomenon of the AI testbed and practices of testing-in-the-wild. It combines historical and sociological approaches to understand ho...
journals.sagepub.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Testing-in-the-wild: innovation nationalism and the colonial dynamics of new technology testbeds journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
One of the most interesting experiments in funding systemic transformations regenerativefuturesfund.org.uk/join-us/fund...
Funders — Regenerative Futures Fund | Working Together Towards A Regenerative And Just Future For Edinburgh | Community Fund | Scotland - UK
Are you a funder, philanthropist or resource-holder interested in contributing financially to transformational and systemic change in Edinburgh? We are looking for resource and fund holders from acros...
regenerativefuturesfund.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 4:22 AM
One of the most interesting experiments in funding systemic transformations regenerativefuturesfund.org.uk/join-us/fund...
An institutional architecture focusing on societies’ ability to respond to tipping elements: urgent, nonlinear, irreversible, climate and ecological change tial.org/news/interch...
Interchange: Toward an institutional architecture for representing, recognising, and responding to tipping elements – TIAL
The project focuses on building the foundations for a closer connection between science and traditional ecological knowledge and political and economic decision-making as well as cultural narratives t...
tial.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 AM
An institutional architecture focusing on societies’ ability to respond to tipping elements: urgent, nonlinear, irreversible, climate and ecological change tial.org/news/interch...
It’s a super quick, 5-minute application - no reports, no nonsense. We trust you to spend it on something boring that your organisation actually needs www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk/boring-fund
Boring Fund | Christina Poulton
Applications now open!
£200 grants available for small charities, CICs and voluntary groups towards some of those boring but hard-to-fund costs.
www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 7:37 AM
It’s a super quick, 5-minute application - no reports, no nonsense. We trust you to spend it on something boring that your organisation actually needs www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk/boring-fund
“The idea of Resilio is to find the communities, find what they're already doing to support themselves and get behind it" www.thenationalnews.com/news/uae/202...
A $500m fund to tackle humanitarian crises launched in Dubai | The National
Legatum, a Dubai-based investment partnership, says its Resilio Fund aims to provide hyper-local responses
www.thenationalnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:34 AM
“The idea of Resilio is to find the communities, find what they're already doing to support themselves and get behind it" www.thenationalnews.com/news/uae/202...
“Language data flaring” — paralleling gas flaring — captures the systemic neglect and poor management of African language data leading to data undercollection, poor storage and limited use in AI www.cigionline.org/publications...
AI and Language Data Flaring in Africa: Addressing the Low-Resource Challenge
African languages are under-represented in artificial intelligence systems due to limited language data, excluding millions from digital participation in their native languages. Factors such as multil...
www.cigionline.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:14 AM
“Language data flaring” — paralleling gas flaring — captures the systemic neglect and poor management of African language data leading to data undercollection, poor storage and limited use in AI www.cigionline.org/publications...
“You must collect things for reasons you don’t yet understand.” Those who preserve things can never quite know how they’ll be used www.noemamag.com/the-ark-buil...
The Ark-Builders Saving Fragile Bits Of Our World | NOEMA
Scientists and archivists are expanding their approaches to preservation — from freezing endangered species’ cells to encoding ancient languages onto disks sent into space.
www.noemamag.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:09 AM
“You must collect things for reasons you don’t yet understand.” Those who preserve things can never quite know how they’ll be used www.noemamag.com/the-ark-buil...