Posted onAuthorErik SassComments Off on The World In 2019? One Word: Risky.
Threats to economic growth and financial stability, not to mention safety and national borders, are proliferating around the world. The Eurasia Group rounds up some of the biggest risks facing our beleaguered planet in 2019.
By Anthony Huston, President & CEO, Graphite One For most people, you say graphite, and they think of No. 2 pencils. But the reality is, you say graphite to a materials scientist, and they think of laptops and LEDs, smartphone and solar cells, Electric Vehicle batteries, drones and satellites, energy storage devices […]
Internet god and would-be humanoid statesman Mark Zuckerberg took to the Washington Post’s op-ed page to unveil some exciting new rules that should govern our sense of self worth and hasten our evolution into politically reflexive, image-obsessed automatons. Purporting to have learned, Mark (friends use his first name) calls for regulation in four areas: […]
By Marilyn Singleton, MD While everyone is preoccupied with mask-shaming and vaccine-cheerleading, scientists are engaged in critical research with a more lasting effect on our lives. For 100 years scientists have dreamed of creating and developing life outside of a womb. In March 2021 that dream came true. Scientists grew naturally conceived mouse embryos in tiny beakers […]
