Tag: The Science of Where Magazine

(Cities) Building better cities for children: Coordinating within and across city agencies to harness the power of playful learning (Brookings)

Helen Shwe Hadani and Shwetha Parvathy write for Brookings: Today, more than half of the world’s children are growing up in cities. By 2030, up to 60...

(USA) 6 priorities for future research into COVID-19 and its effects on early learning (Brookings)

Christina Weiland, Erica Greenberg, Daphna Bassok, Anna Markowitz, Paola Guerrero Rosada, and Grace Luetmer write for Brookings: Since March 2020, researchers have produced more than 300 reports on the...

(USA) “You never know”: Work and precarity in Las Vegas before and during COVID-19 (Brookings)

Richard V. Reeves, Morgan Welch, and Hannah Van Drie write for Brookings: In this brief we examine work and work-based policies in Las Vegas, Nevada –...

(Cybersecurity) A bug in Fortinet FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer allows unauthenticated hackers to run code as root (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini writes for Security Affairs: Fortinet fixes a serious bug in its FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer network management solutions that could be exploited to execute...

(Cybersecurity) Microsoft secured court order to take down domains used in BEC campaign (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini writes for Security Affairs: Microsoft has seized 17 malicious homoglyph domains used by crooks in a business email compromise (BEC) campaign targeting its users. go to...

(Cybersecurity) WiFiDemon – Recently discovered iPhone Wi-Fi bug could also allow RCE (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini writes for Security Affairs: A recently discovered iPhone Wi-Fi bug that could crash the WiFi connectivity could be exploited by attackers to achieve...

(Cybersecurity) US DoJ indicts four members of China-linked APT40 cyberespionage group (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini writes for Security Affairs: US DoJ indicted four members of the China-linked cyberespionage group known as APT40 for hacking various entities between 2011...

(Latin America) Latin America’s Perfect Storm (Project-Syndicate)

JAVIER SOLANA, ENRIQUE V. IGLESIAS writes for Project-Syndicate: The mass protests that have recently erupted in countries as different as Colombia and Cuba attest to...

(Central Banks) Put Central Bankers in Their Place (Project-Syndicate)

HOWARD DAVIES writes for Project-Syndicate: Current loose monetary policies in developed economies are likely to increase wealth inequality, and in the short term there...

(Middle East) Managing a New Middle-East Order (Project-Syndicate)

SHLOMO BEN-AMI writes for Project-Syndicate: Ongoing shifts in alliances in the region are being driven partly by Iran’s growing influence. But the real story...

(Climate Change/Net Zero) How to Reach Net Zero (Project-Syndicate)

HELEN MOUNTFORD, MAURICIO CÁRDENAS write for Project-Syndicate: While the world has many ambitious long-term climate targets, it lacks strategies to put the right investments and...

(Uzbekistan/Central Asia/South Asia/Pakistan) Uzbek President’s Call for Connectivity, Cooperation, Dialogue and Trust in Central Asia-South Asia Region: Pakistan’s Obduracy is the Obstacle (VIF)

Amb Skand Ranjan Tayal writes for VIF: President Shavkat Mirziyoyev of Uzbekistan hosted an important conference ‘Regional Connectivity Between Central Asia and South Asia...

(Russia/Turkey/Azerbaijan) Russia, Turkey Compete to Entice Azerbaijan Into Their Geopolitical Plays (Jamestown Foundation)

Rahim Rahimov writes for Jamestown Foundation: During the latest session of the Council of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO),...

(Russia/Moldova) Russia Abandons Moldovan Clients, Will Deal With the New Pro-Western Government (Part Two) (The Jamestown Foundation)

Vladimir Socor writes for Jamestown Foundation: From Russia’s standpoint, Moldova’s former president Igor Dodon and his Socialist Party are serial losers and expired assets...

(Russia/Ukraine) Putin’s Fixation on Ukraine Is Demagogic, Delusional and Dangerous (The Jamestown Foundation)

Pavel K. Baev writes for Jamestown Foundation: World leaders rarely publish their visions of current affairs in the form of essays, but President Vladimir...

(Afghanistan/USA) First Wave of Afghan Interpreters Head to Fort Lee (Defense One)

Tara Copp and Jacqueline Feldscher write for Defense One: Afghan interpreters and their families who have been cleared to come to the United States will...