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...BJORN LOMBORG by Matt Ridley...
...just might be the Martin Luther of the environmental movement. A statistician from the University of Aarhus in Denmark, Bjorn Lomborg examined the state of the world, using reputable sources and long series of data in his book The Skeptical Environmentalist, and found a surprising thing: by most measures the planet is getting healthier--less pollution, more forests, more food per head. He exposed the often misleading and selective use of scientific evidence by environmental pressure groups, urged us to be optimistic rather than despairing about environmental problems, and set out what should be the true priorities of environmental action...
...Journal of Negative Results in Biomedicine” (JNRBM) which is dedicated to publishing the results that could save scientists from doing years of work just to get the same negative result that others have already found. In an introductory editorial, Hersey Professor of Cell Biology Bjorn R. Olsen, who edits the journal, and Visiting Research Fellow in Pediatrics Christian Pfeffer wrote that “it is useful and important to publish well documented failures, such as with drugs that show no benefit for which the shortcomings have not been publicized.” Publishing such failures, the Olsen...
CHESS. In this season’s Mainstage rock musical, two master chess players and a woman caught between them face off in their pursuit to understand the ever-shifting alliances in love, life and politics. With lyrics by Tim Rice and a score by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus of ABBA, Chess was originally inspired by Cold War politics and its effects on the lives of everyday people, played out through the metaphor of a chess game. The musical also offers a darker glimpse at the realities we avoid and the stories we invent, while...
CHESS. In this season’s Mainstage rock musical, three master chess players, Florence, Freddie and Anatoly face off in their pursuit to understand the ever-shifting alliances in love, life and politics. With lyrics by Tim Rice and a score by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, Chess was originally inspired by Cold War politics and its effects on the lives of everyday people, played out through the metaphor of Chess. The musical also offers a darker glimpse at the realities we avoid and the stories we invent, while “we go on pretending stories like ours...