Tick, tick, tick, … (1896) It’s been 119 years since the scientist Svante Arrhenius published his formula for the greenhouse effect, and the idea that the burning of coal, by adding CO2 to the atmosphere, would raise the earth’s average…
“We can fight against the Europeans, we can fight with rhetoric against them,” said Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland during a meeting of United States officials at a security conference February in Munich, according to the…
Pacha Mama Some countries in the Western Hemisphere have given constitutional rights to non-human entities — with opposite effects on their democracies. While Ecuador and Bolivia stand to strengthen their democracies by declaring human-like rights for Pacha Mama, that is,…
From Climbing Mountains to Building Schools K2 from air, West Face (Guilhem Vellut) Greg Mortenson is an American, who grew up near Mount Kilimanjaro, where his father started a teaching hospital and his mother started a school.20+21 From that background,…
(Analysis.) Why should an American want to be a citizen of the great United States, instead of just a member of one’s own little tribe? What is the purpose of the United States? The preamble to the U.S. Constitution answers…