As a new Russian law changing the labelling of French bubblies went into effect last month, one must not forget the real message sent by the Kremlin: Putin is still able to get into Western leaders’ heads. Figure 1:Photograph: Itar-Tass/Alamy To the dismay of oenologists and oenophiles around the world, the Russian government decided to … Continue reading A Glass of Shampanskoye- Don’t You Forget About the Tsar
Stirring Instead of Stifling: Revisiting the Spring-Summer 2016 Protests in Ethiopia
“Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”― Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't Demonstrators chant slogans while flashing … Continue reading Stirring Instead of Stifling: Revisiting the Spring-Summer 2016 Protests in Ethiopia