While there is an increasing amount of research that aims to understand long-term trends in human history, these still typically only go back a few millennia. However, modern humans (Homo Sapiens) have existed for at least 200 thousand years, thus ra

Supply chain disruptions can amplify the economic impact of localized shocks as they propagate through interconnected production networks. This effect was notably observed during the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2011 Japanese earthquake, where initial d

Drawing on a decade of research on food systems, the speaker will present selected results across production, consumption, trade, and scenario aspects of food systems. First, the speaker will explore the nexus of food production with water, energy, a

How would you track sea turtles with pre-GPS, study embarrassment, and find out if time slows down when you’re scared? At first glance, many scientific hypotheses do not appear to be testable through experiments. Either the result cannot be mea

Paper by Rosie Hayward, Peter Klimek, and Asjad Naqvi Talk by Rosie Hayward (ASCII) Both the US and the EU have been significant contributors to official development aid. However, there is increasing political pressure in many countries, including th

CSH Talk by Jaber Fooladi (ASCII) In this talk, Jaber Fooladi will present their methodology for efficiently processing large volumes of news data using fine-tuned local language models (LLMs). Their approach focuses on extracting critical informatio