Which countries and regions produce the best red wine?
By Capital Frontiers Capital Frontiers has been conducting an ongoing research project on wine from around the world. We recently wrote...
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The Young Man and the Pencil
By Roger Weber It was Paris, Summer, 2008. After a rambunctious few months spent with friends studying at the American Academy near the...
Can Fusion Energy Reset the Future for Our Species and Planet?
By Roger Weber Amid 2022’s countless stories of varied import and legacy - Russia invades Ukraine, Roe v. Wade overturned, Artemis orbits...
After Covid-19, Do People Really Want to Live in Cities?
Covid-19 taught the country many things, but among the more interesting things it taught us are the findings that the majority of people...
Which African cities will be the largest in the year 2100?
By Capital Frontiers The scale of urbanization that will happen in Africa over the next 80 years is staggering. While Africa today has...
Welcome to the Nigerian Century
By Roger Weber Politically and culturally, the American zeitgeist around international trends is largely fixated on the growing economies...
Pete Rose, Cincinnati Antihero
By Capital Frontiers Of all the colorful figures in the history of baseball, few are as complicated as Pete Rose. On the one hand,...
In the Country that Outlawed Cities, a Metropolis Gets Ready to Roar
By Capital Frontiers Most people have never heard of Dar es Salaam, which isn't surprising. It’s the 116th largest city in the world and...
Can the Akron Rubber Ducks Swim with Ohio's Best Minor League Baseball Franchises?
The Midwest is full of great minor league baseball and excellent ballpark experiences. Some, like Dayton and Toledo, are beacons of...
Why Are Hotels Cozying Up to Major League Ballparks?
By Roger Weber Take me out to the ballgame…and let’s stay the night. So is the new mantra of Major League Baseball. After a period...
Can China’s Great Green Wall Create Rich Red Wine?
By Roger Weber In 2021, the Chinese-Mongolian border saw its worst dust storms in years, bringing dust pollution 20 times healthy levels....
What's it Like Having One of the World's Best Memories?
By Roger Weber First, some elephants… For miles and miles, Mirasa trudged on tired knees willing her family of elephants across a barren...
Is St. Louis America's Greatest City?
Months ago we published the results from a study we conducted trying to find the “unicorn city”: the city that best balances attributes...
In Search of Baseball's One-Eyed Wonder
One of the most beautiful things about baseball is that so many of its players don’t “look” like athletes. You can succeed as a baseball...
Will the Anti-Workers of the World Unite to Invent a Better Tomorrow?
Much of the country reacted with curious disbelief in 2021 when numerous media outlets – from Business Insider...
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