Optimism Faces Grave Realities at Climate Talks
- Optimism Faces Grave Realities at Climate Talks – “After more than two decades of trying but failing to forge a global pact to halt climate change, United Nations negotiators gathering in South America this week are expressing a new optimism that they may finally achieve the elusive deal. Even with a deal to stop the current rate of greenhouse gas emissions, scientists warn, the world will become increasingly unpleasant. Without a deal, they say, the world could eventually become uninhabitable for humans.
- The Great White Shark’s Image Problem
- Mystics distract India’s ministers from Modi’s development drive – “Officials criticised for seeking advice from astrologers and promoting Hinduism – “The Indians who discovered this week that their education minister seeks advice from a Vedic astrologer should be no more shocked than the Britons who learnt that Tony Blair, the former UK prime minister, talked to God before going to war in Iraq.”
- The Jihad Cult: Why Young Germans Are Answering Call to Holy War
- Looking sharp and professional in a black vest and bow tie, a humanoid robot showed up for its first day of work at a new job Monday selling coffee machines for food giant Nestle Japan Ltd.
- Saved: How addicts gained the power to reverse overdoses – “Naloxone can reverse an otherwise fatal heroin overdose within minutes. Carrie Arnold meets the doctors who put this remarkable drug in the hands of the police, families and addicts—and saved thousands of lives.”
- Catriona Menzies-Pike on Julia Gillard’s “My Story” in the Los Angeles Review of Books – Channeling the Emotion of the Moment
- The History of Campus Sexual Assault - >Today student activists and the federal government are successfully raising awareness about a problem that’s been around for a very long time. By most accounts, one in five female college students will be assaulted. Gender relations have changed since the 1950s and so has the law. What’s still unclear is the best approach for preventing sexual misconduct on campus.”
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