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Beyond the War: Yemen Cafe Join CODEPINK and Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation for a conversation with Mokhtar Alkhanshali about Yemeni coffee.  The “Beyond the War” Yemen cultural series will attempt to showcase Yemen outside the realm of tragedy with an emphasis on Yemeni history, celebrations, and excellence! We will be reading questions from the audience to Mokhtar throughout the webinar. CODEPINK’s Danaka Katovich and Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation’s Arwa Mok...

If we had read an account of any of 2020s world events in a novel we would have been satisfied knowing it was exactly that: fiction. Contemporary events have always affected readership and with restrictions as they are, reading - and fiction especially - is proving to be a vital form of entertainment and escapism.

This article is part of the guide The EdSurge Podcast. On this week’s EdSurge Podcast, we’re revisiting some of the most memorable moments from our podcast in 2020—and some bonus material that we wanted to include but didn’t make it in previously. Listen to Dave Eggers’ concerns about what he sees as overuse of tech in education. Hear how one professor created an unusual final exam simulation that involved trained chickens. Learn what it was like to be a first-year teac...

Around the world, unease about so-called “surveillance capitalism” is throwing up common themes on tech regulation. Mostly, these appear to demand accountability and docility from digital companies, which one senior European official recently described as having grown “too big to care”. Accordingly, regulators have been busy the past month and it has been pretty brutal for tech companies. In mid-December, the European Commission published drafts of two ambitious pieces of legislation th...