Getting Up Close with Polar Bears — While We Still Can

“Hello, beautiful,” the guide says, in the gentlest tone, to the polar bear lumbering toward us. We’d been watching her feed on berry-laden bushes on the muddy shores of Hudson Bay for about 20 minutes before she noticed us and headed over to investigate her audience — a dozen people from all over the world …

Against solidarity of the powerful

United Nations Security Council meeting on Yemen, on April 17, 2018. Picture by Li Muzi/Xinhua News Agency/PA Images. All rights reserved. Friends and acquaintances often ask me, as a Yemeni living in Australia, about the situation in my own country. The conversation usually concludes as follows: “We do hear about atrocities in Syria, but rarely …

The Eagle Watch

“Glen, is that you?” The frail-looking woman lying in the hospital bed beside a dim light said to the man at her bedside. He had been hoping she would wake up and talk to him; it had been a few days since she seemed strong enough.  “No, honey, I’m Ellis. Glen’s father. Don’t you remember me?”  “I don’t …

Will Brazil seize the chance to lead the debate on migration?

Refugiados sírios en Rio de Janeiro. Wikimedia Commons. The Global Compact for Migration should foster a common understanding on the main causes that force people to leave their countries of origin, and how to mitigate them. The document also provides protection and guarantees for the rights of those who migrate, as well as the need …

“The Flying Stars” by G.K. Chesterton

Theologian, playwright, and novelist G.K. Chesterton inspired a slew of 20th-century personalities including C.S. Lewis, George Bernard Shaw, and even Mahatma Gandhi. His criticism and writings on Catholicism were matched, in sum, by his detective stories that featured the recurring sleuth Father Brown and the criminal Flambeau. In “The Flying Stars,” an improvisational parlor game …

The Argentine government and the National Insecurity Doctrine

Trespassing Forbidden, Military Zone. Wikimedia Commons. All Rights Reserved. There was a time when thinking in terms of the National Security Doctrine was the thing to do, now it's the National Insecurity Doctrine. According to this new creed, the enemy today is a network of interconnected actors who operate domestically as part of a global …

Virginia Tech Finally Has A Black Graduate In Nanoscience

Click:全国楼凤论坛 On May 9, Ginai Seabron made history at her university. The 22-year-old from Richmond became the very first black person to ever graduate with a degree in nanoscience at Virginia Tech. She is also the only black nanoscientist in the state of Virginia, according to an NBC News affiliate report. When the school informed …