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Crypto trading platforms, where millions of people buy and sell digital currencies, don’t just look like casinos. In many ways, they function like them. Michal Parzuchowski/Unsplash

If crypto platforms feel like gambling it’s because it is: Users drawn to high‑risk behaviour

This article looks at how crypto platforms really work. Instead of simply being digital marketplaces, these platforms are designed to profit from user losses.
Collard greens − a staple of diets across the African diaspora. Bronwen Powell/Abderrahim Ouarghidi

How an unexpected observation, a 10th‑century recipe and an explorer’s encounter with a cabbage thief upend what we know about collard greens’ journey to the American South

Collards may have arrived in southern Morocco via early Muslim traders, and Morocco may have been a stop in the journey the vegetables took to America.
Cash is pretty convenient. Dilok Klaisataporn/EyeEm via Getty Images

Why does money exist?

Paying for the stuff you want with currency is way easier than relying on chairs you made or chickens you raised.
According to the authors, investment banking is a sector particularly prone to unethical behaviour. Timothy A.Clary/AFP

Could better regulation reconcile trading and ethics?

The regulatory apparatus designed to oversee investment banking is structurally flawed. To spawn ethical behaviour within traders will require nothing less than a sector-wide cultural change.

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