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Simon Dürr

Simon Dürr is currently studying computational enzymology as an exchange student. He has lived both in the outskirts of rural Germany on a small farm as well as in London and Montréal. His interests range from geopolitics, sustainability issues and technological innovations, to the chemistry of life. In his free time he is currently either exploring the Swedish outdoors or trying to bake the perfect kladdkaka.

Politics/Security & War/The Internet

One world under CCTV

By Simon Dürr Does fear of terrorism warrant limitless surveillance? As you walk around a mid-sized city in the Western world you will pass around 30

Politics

Crooked Borders: Taking a Closer Look at Gerrymandering

By Karen Ramirez and Simon Dürr Political parties have been redrawing voting districts to maintain political power ever since the US was founded, but gerrymandering, as this

Economics

Why Bitcoin as a currency is inevitably doomed

By Simon Dürr The hype about Bitcoin is more real than ever. If you are founding a start-up right now, and you include the words Bitcoin

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