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As the hippie days of the 1960s drew to a close, the British scientist James Lovelock began to formulate a fittingly hippie (yet still innovative) theory about the earth. He believed that the living and non-living parts of the earth form a single, self-regulating system. When some change...
There’s a larger lesson here, however, than where not to plant trees: Optimism alone will not slow climate change. The Gaia hypothesis, taken to an extreme, implies that humans can sit back and watch the Earth warm, and eventually the earth will respond and restore itself. The...
In the struggle to restore health to Africa's politics and economies, there are decisive moments of tangible gain or dangerous relapse. The presidential election in Nigeria on April 21 is such a breath-holding moment. Africa's scorecard is finely balanced. Its 53 countries are overwhelmingly democratic, and the...
Pride is one thing; reputation is quite another. The question of whether a new French President will be able to restore France's luster for this generation of exiles is a critical one - for those who have stayed as much as for those who have left. Interest in the campaign...
“Literature is concerned with stories of individuals whereas social sciences try to speak in abstract. It’s easy to speak that way to an abstract country, but we live in one with a proper name. I would like to restore the understanding of the proper...