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How About a Spare Time University for Sub-Saharan Africa?
Fragilecologies Archives 15 May 2006 This idea for a “Spare Time University” may sound a bit crazy to other people, but to me it is an idea that can work. I want to develop a…
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Looking Back to Look Ahead : Using new Techniques to Assess Old Hypotheses
Fragilecologies Archives 29 March 2006 Recently, I picked up an unlikely book (for me) to read entitled Literary Feuds (Arthur, 2002). It contains separate chapters about intellectual or personal feuds between well-known writers. One of…
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The Future Has Arrived Earlier Than Predicted… Take Global Warming, For Example
Fragilecologies Archives 13 February 2006 Back in the Dark Age days of climate studies (before the early 1970s), there was considerable concern about the possibility of a global cooling of the atmosphere. The earth was…
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If You Don’t Pay, You Don’t Get to Play : The US and the Kyoto Process
Fragilecologies Archives 21 December 2004 There’s a new club in town: the Kyoto Club. It was formed in mid-December 2004 in Argentina at a conference of governments meeting to discuss ways to reduce greenhouse gas…
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The Perfect “Storm Scenario” : The Hurricane Pam Exercise
Fragilecologies Archives 1 February 2006 In July 2004, several government agencies were involved in playing out a hypothetical future focused in Louisiana and a strong Category 3 hurricane named Hurricane Pam. The Federal Emergency Management…
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