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by Blair Fix Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. Summary Humanity's most pressing need is to learn how to live within our planet's boundaries - something that likely means doing without economic growth. How, then, can we create a non-growth society that is both just and equitable? I attempt to address this question by looking at an aspect of sustainability (and equity) that is not often discussed: the growth of hierarchy. As societies consume more energy, they tend to become more hierarchical. At the same time, the growth of hierarch...

Share this article Share this article TORONTO, Jan. 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Toronto-based tech firm, NuraLogix, will be showcasing the groundbreaking app Anura™ at CES 2021. Originally debuted at CES Asia 2019, Anura™ is an  Affective AI  based app that allows contactless health tracking; using only a smartphone, find out your results in just 30 seconds! Anura™ is an Affective AI-based app that uses your smartphone's camera to measure your general wellness in just 30 seconds. Try Anura™ for yourself, by downloading the app from your app store. Anura™ is backed by global scientif...

Augusto Cerqua, Marco Letta 18 December 2020 There is widespread concern about the toll of the pandemic on local economies, but little causal evidence to assess its real costs. This column presents an impact evaluation of the local economic effects of the COVID-19 crisis in Italy, based on a counterfactual application of machine learning algorithms. It documents that, to date, impacts on employment and firms have been dramatically uneven across the Italian territory and spatially uncorrelated with the epidemiological pattern of the first wave. It shows that this heterogeneity is assoc...