Russia, the EU, food production, protestants, drugs, astronomy, Japan, gadgets, the moon, and time travel. Β The Daily Reads are presented in collaboration with FREEDOM TODAY JOURNAL. Subscribe here to get them in your inbox every morning.Β Photo:Β Nika Maksimyuk
ACTIVISM β Russian Police arrests Libertarians during Adam Smith forum β Vera Kichanova on ftn.media: Once again: in 2017, in the centre of Moscow, police arrest the participants of an academic conference!
GOVERNMENT β The corrupt cycle β Bill Wirtz on fee.org: βThe European Union spends over β¬1 billion a year to fund NGOs who, in turn, lobby the government.β
FOOD β Feed the world β Hannah Ritchie on ourworldindata.org: βIn fact, itβs estimated that nitrogen fertilizer now supports approximately half of the global population. In other words, Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch β the pioneers of this technological breakthrough β are estimated to have enabled the lives of several billion people, who otherwise would have died prematurely, or never been born at all.β
RELIGION β Christian capitalism β BBC4 on aeon.co: βIn his landmark work The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905), the German sociologist Max Weber offered a radical shift in perspective on the history of global economics by suggesting that the Protestant Reformation, rather than innovation, was primarily responsible for the development of capitalism.β
DEBATE β M-kay β Sana Al-Badri and Marco Vega on quillette.com: Where are the people reminding us that βdrugs can be goodβ?
SPACE β Mirror, mirror β Daniel Stolte on futurity.org: βThese images and videos show how scientists turned 40,800 pounds of custom glass chunks into a mirror for the world’s largest telescope.β
POLITICS β Japanese roulette β Mark Fleming-Williams on worldview.stratfor.com: βThe country’s most important alliance is showing signs of strain in the new world order. But as Tokyo looks for alternative arrangements, it can’t neglect Washington.β
TECHNOLOGY β Come a long way β David Gewirtz on zdnet.com: βAs we welcome the innovative iPhone X, it’s worth noting that you can buy a new iPhone for less than the original PalmPilot. Even Apple’s lowest-end device is hundreds of thousands of times more powerful than handhelds from 20 years ago.β
SPACE β Fly me to the moon β Sean Doran on gigapan.com: A very, very, very high resolution image of the moon, made with data from the NASA Lunar Reconnaisance Orbiter
CULTURE β Back to the future β Nerdwriter1 on youtube.com: βA video tracing the origins of time travel fiction.β