July 2017 Monthly Goodreads
Articles
Scaramucci on Leaks: 'I'm going to fire everybody' (NY Times)
John Kelly, New Chief of Staff, is seen as beacon of discipline (NY Times)
Why healthcare policy is so hard (NY Times)
The conglomerate that troubles China (Bloomberg)
FCC says its cybersecurity measures to prevent DDoS attacks must remain secret (Techcrunch)
GitHub goes down - and take developer productivity with it (Techcrunch)
Should the tech giants reprogram capitalism? (The Economist - medium)
Why China's AI push is worrying (The Economist)
The world's largest online-travel company (The Economist)
Nicolás Maduro tries to make thugocracy permanent in Venezuela (The Economist)
Why India and Pakistan hate each other (The Economist)
The human toll of Yemen's unending war (Foreign Policy)
A whopping 91% of plastic isn't recycled (National Geographic)
Transforming garbage into sustainable solar future (National Geographic)
Hatred of LGBTQ people still infects society. It's no time to celebrate (The Guardian)
The Guardian view on cryptocurrencies: bubble and chic (The Guardian)
It's not just the BBC that must come clean about underpaying women (The Guardian)
How to beat the ticking Brexit clock: let British business leaders do the talking (The Guardian)
Books
The Master Algorithm: how the quest for the ultimate learning machine will remake our world (by Pedro Domingos)
The Fate of the West: the battle to save the world's most successful political idea (by Bill Emmott)
Politics: ideas in profile (by David Runciman)
Documentaries
Bangladesh's Biggest Brothel (Al Jazeera)
Myanmar is the world's best tech test market (TEDx Talks)
Lectures/ Talks
Can art amend history? (TED)