- How Iranian academic nuclear research may have flowed into military applications.
- Larry Summers on America's turn towards a 'Downton Abbey economy'.
- CFR's multimedia guide tracking international responses to the world's armed conflicts has been updated.
- The seven habits of an effective Indonesian president.
- South Korea is often held up as a global online leader. It ain't so, says The Economist.
- India shows NASA a thing or two about running an affordable space program.
- According to the UN, Africa will surpass China's population in about 10 years and double it soon after mid-century.
- Nicholas Kristof's recent op-ed bemoaning the irrelevancy of academics in policy debate touched off a lot criticism, collected here.
Thursday links: Iran's nukes, Downton Abbey, Africa's population, India in space and more
Published 20 Feb 2014
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