Shale we Dance?
By Andreas Kuersten Georgetown Journal of International Affairs Five years ago, if one were to assert that by 2014 the United States would become the world’s top oil producer, the […]
Monthly Archives: November 2015
Earth, Meet Asteroids: Planning for the Worst
By Josh Dean Popular Mechanics On August 18, 2015, an otherwise unexceptional summer Tuesday, NASA issued a press release titled “There is No Asteroid Threatening Earth.” This was an alarming […]
Climate Refugees and Landlocked Islanders
By Krista Langlois Hakai For generations, Marshallese called their home Aelõñ Kein Ad—“these islands of ours.” A few ships passed by, but the islands’ culture evolved in relative isolation until […]
The Social Costs of Carbon Emissions
By Jeff Tollefson Nature Putting a price on the damage caused by the release of a tonne of climate-warming carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is an enormously complex exercise. Yet […]
Our Cognitive Dissonance in Understanding Gender
By Robert Sapolsky Nautilus Somewhere in the middle of the night in a Central African rainforest, a chimpanzee gives birth. Soon after, as the sun rises, mother and newborn sit […]
The Economic Impacts of Syrian Refugees on Host Countries
By Ali Fakih & Walid Marrouch Georgetown Journal of International Affairs Since the eruption of the Syrian conflict in March 2011, the world came to face the largest wave of […]
Responsibility for Intentions or Outcomes?
By Claire Creffield Nautilus The awful truth is that the degree to which we are blamed for relatively minor wrongdoings often depends not on the wrongdoings themselves, but on chance […]
