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Promoting the well-being of citizens is widely accepted as the primary goal of national policy and government action—in principle. In practice, however, decision makers face what are generally viewed as competing priorities: improving citizens’ well-being or fostering economic growth.THE 2018 SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSESSMENTBut are those two goals actually in conflict? Do efforts t...

For all but the most elite athletes, buying athletic shoes can be hit or miss: Go to the store, find something you like, and try it on. If it doesn't feel quite right, too bad. Try another shoe.Adidas sees a future where motion capture tech, data analysis software, and 3D printing come together in the store to create a pair of kicks tailored to your exact needs. One foot slightly smaller than t...

Is Cryptocurrency ‘The Mother of all Bubbles’? This Visualization Puts Things in Perspective. The sheer magnitude of how much money there is in the world can be quite staggering—and hard to understand. What if you could visualize every market in the world as a bubble?Earlier this year the total U.S. stock market cap surpassed $30 trillion. It then lost more than $1 trillion in a single month...

“Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope.”If you’ve ever wished you could recreate the iconic scene in Star Wars, where Luke Skywalker discovers a holographic message of Princess Leia, pretty much kicking off the entire franchise, you can now get a lot closer to that dream. Unfortunately, you won’t be using an R2-D2 astromech droid to do so, but rather a new type of display developed b...

MODERN DATING, OLD ALGORITHM. Not having any luck with online dating? Maybe a decades-old algorithm can help.Hinge — a dating app that claims to be for “people looking for real connections” — rolled out “Most Compatible,” a feature that presents users with Hinge’s daily pick for who they’re most likely to hit it off with.To take some of the guesswork out of finding your perfect match, H...

Student wizards use a block-based interface to create code with the Harry Potter Kano Kit.Teaching our kids to code is vital for our tech-packed present and future, and there are many different tools available to the programming student – from crawling bots to play dough circuits to build-it-yourself kits. Entertaining and educational as such things can be, few can claim to be magical. Now Kan...

Nendo reinterprets the traditional cuckoo clock with three different designs including one that rests upside-down on a titlted angle and another that doubles up as a bookend. detailed wooden carvings and hanging pendulums are replaced with simple white faces on light wooden blocks.The cuckoo clocks typical design is a pendulum-regulated clock that strikes the hours with a sound like a common cu...

The $20 billion Cambrian explosion of tokenized digital assets, and the emerging infrastructure being built to support them. Over $20 billion has been raised by Crypto projects through Initial Coin Offerings since the start of 2017. That’s $18 billion more than a year ago, when we released our first primer on the space, Token Mania. So what has this Cambrian Explosion brought to financial serv...