The Old World Is Dying and a New One Is Born
Every summer (for some reason it is more turbulent than the winter) we feel that things are getting worse—that the fires are worse, floods are worse, and man-made crises are…
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Afghanistan’s Pandora Box for Mass Migration
Six years have passed since Europe faced one of the worst refugee crises the continent remembers. Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, shockwaves resonate throughout all of Europe as countries…
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In A Gloomy World, There Is A Way Out
If a word could embody humanity’s current feeling, that would be “uncertainty.” The whole world is losing direction, people live without foreseeing any clear future. They do not know what…
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If Animals Behaved Like People
Human beings stand at the top of the pyramid on Earth. Nevertheless, we are quickly drifting toward utter helplessness in the face of extreme climatic events, an irrepressible virus, fading…
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An Army Can’t Defeat Guerilla Fighters
The United States’ chaotic retreat from Afghanistan is not the first time that the Afghans have pushed an army of a superpower out of their country. The one before them…
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The Elusive “Facts” about How Life Begins
Over the past two decades, several studies have been published, which refute much of what we thought we knew about how human eggs are fertilized in the womb. It turns…
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The Permafrost Is Defrosting (and it is bad news)
The permafrost, the frozen layer of soil that has underlain the arctic tundra for millennia, is accelerating its thaw. Several years ago, scientists noticed that ice they thought would never…
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Understanding Nature’s Language
What if we came to a foreign planet where we didn’t speak the language of the local creatures or understand their gestures or culture? Never mind the embarrassing gaffes we…
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When Our Adult Children Leave Home
From the moment our children are born we invest everything we can in them knowing that the day will come when they will move on independently with their own lives.…
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Being an Environmentalist Pays Well
A recently released report by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) states that “Human influence has warmed the climate at a rate that is unprecedented in at least the…
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