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Natalia Romashkina: When Intelligence Suck, Nuclear War Is More Possible…

Strategic Instability in the Era of Information and Communication Technologies: Crisis or the New Norm? Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Informational Security Problems Department of the Center for International Security at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Academy of …

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Penguin: Open Source Toolbox for Studying Earth

An Open Source Toolbox For Studying The Earth Fully understanding the planet’s complex ecosystem takes data, and lots of it. Unfortunately, the ability to collect detailed environmental data on a large scale with any sort of accuracy has traditionally been something that only the government or well-funded institutions have been capable of. Building and deploying …

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Berto Jongman: History, Big Data, Instability

History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help save the future Turchin’s work – which incorporates not just history and maths, but also the research of economists, other social scientists, and environmental scientists – provides a much-needed corrective to decades of specialisation within these disciplines.