That's Interesting
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50 Years of Gaming History, by Revenue Stream (1970-2020)
30th November, 2020Every year it feels like the gaming industry sees the same stories—record sales, unfathomable market reach, and questions of how much higher the market can go. Interestingly, it’s important to break down shifting growth within the market.
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Federal Reserve Bank of New York: Economic Policy Review | Special Issue: China in the Global Economy
18th November, 2020The four articles focus on China: recent business cycle trends, China’s potential for high-income status, and how a Chinese growth slowdown may spillback on the United States.
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The unique world of North Korea’s kids TV
13th November, 2020North Korean children get 30 minutes of dedicated programming every day, but it’s all carefully crafted to suit the country’s defiant, military-first philosophy. BBC Monitoring’s North Korea expert Alistair Coleman takes a look.
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How one man spent 600 days walking the Silk Road to see the Caucasus and Central Asia by foot
23rd October, 2020In August 2018, anthropology graduate Daniele Ventola left Italy to embark on the biggest adventure of his life — a journey to China along the Silk Road — on foot.
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Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic Pricing and Collusion
22nd October, 2020Pricing algorithms are increasingly replacing human decision making in real marketplaces. To inform the competition policy debate on possible consequences, we run experiments with pricing algorithms powered by Artificial Intelligence in controlled environments (computer simulations).
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Lowy Institute Live: In Conversation with General James Mattis and Sir Angus Houston
18th October, 2020On Thursday 15 October 2020, the Lowy Institute’s Executive Director Dr Michael Fullilove hosted an in conversation event via live video stream with General James Mattis, one of America’s most experienced and influential military leaders. They were joined by Sir Angus Houston, former Chief of the Australian Defence Force.
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10,000 Vintage Recipe Books Are Now Digitized in The Internet Archive’s Cookbook & Home Economics Collection
14th October, 2020Cookbooks are windows into history—markers of class and caste, documents of daily life, and snapshots of regional and cultural identity at particular moments in time.
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