21 must-read stories for the weekend

1. How to make capitalism more ethical. Capitalism has become a dirty word, so how do we write values and ethics into its source code?

2. New climate report shows we must act now. “The stakes have never been higher,” writes World Bank Group President, Jim Yong Kim.

3. What does humanity’s past tell us about humanity’s future? Historian David Christian on what “big history ” can do for humanity.

4. Five questions to ask about emerging technologies, including impact on class, education, and the workplace.

5. Suicide is the second leading cause of death in 15-29-year-olds globally. How can we protect young people from the impact of cyber bullying?

6. A billion people hungry, a billion people overweight. The developed and developing worlds have contrasting problems. One entrepreneur thinks we can tackle them both at the same time.

7. Understanding epidemics through mobile data. Mobile phone records are a rich source of data that could, among other things, help us understand how Ebola spreads.

8. The circular economy presents a massive opportunity. Especially for entrepreneurs. (Huffington Post)

9. South Africa needs to make decisions on energy and act on them. From former chair of the Global Agenda Council on Water Security, Mike Muller. (Business Day)

10. The changing nature of representative democracy. Global Shaper, Jorge Soto, on the key challenges facing the world in 2015. ( CNN)

11. India offers visa on arrival for 43 countries. Cites Forum Global Competitiveness Report research. (GulfNews)

12. Renowned space scientist Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock on her whistlestop week which included a trip to the Forum. (Guardian)

13. Asia’s faltering “Womenomics” . According to the World Economic Forum, progress  “remains slow in achieving equality for women in the workplace.” (The Diplomat)

14. Banker pay is where Nordic sex equality ends. The Nordic region boasts the world’s smallest gender gap, but step into its banks and that gap widens, a lot. (Bloomberg Businessweek)

15. Education in the second machine age. As the scarcity of human capital declines in importance, the rapid expansion of education may not be the answer to the challenges of globalisation that we hoped it would be.

16. Rising inequality kills American jobs. “High and rising inequality is now holding back the U.S. recovery from the Great Recession.”

17. How technology is changing media. BuzzFeed takes a data-driven look at how trends in social, video, and mobile are changing the way we consume media.

18. California’s ski resorts are having trouble with a critical element – snow.

19. Two facts are involved in estimating the rate of social mobility in any society, and both involve surnames.

20. Does free food make for a happier office? Should workers never be more than 150 feet from a food outlet?

21. What’s wrong with the WTO and How to Fix It. The LSE Review of Books takes a look at Rorden Wilkinson’s latest.

Author: Adrian Monck is Managing Director of Public Engagement at the World Economic Forum.

Image: A farmer walks on a dried-up pond on the outskirts of Baokang, central China’s Hubei province, June 10, 2007. REUTERS/Stringer