Not everyone in the field of science has abandoned the truth that carbon dioxide (CO2) and other “greenhouse gases” are good for people and planet as opposed to bad. More than 1,600 scientists – 1,609 as of this writing, to be precise – belonging to the Global Climate Intelligence Group (CLINTEL) signed the World Climate […]
Teki Putin mitä vain, Aleksanteri-instituutista löytyy aina ymmärtäjä
”Esiintyessään julkisuudessa tutkijat edustavat aina itseään”, puolustautuu instituutin johtaja Markku Kivinen.
Aleksanteri-instituutti 9.7.2016
Teksti Tuomas Pulsa Teppo Tiilikainen
”Esiintyessään julkisuudessa tutkijat edustavat aina itseään”, puolustautuu instituutin johtaja Markku Kivinen.
Pierre Agostini The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
Ferenc Krausz Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching och Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Tyskland
Anne L’Huillier Lunds universitet, Sverige
”för experimentella metoder som genererar attosekundpulser av ljus för studier av elektrondynamik i materia”
Experiment med ljus fångar de kortaste ögonblicken
Europeiska unionen kan snart förnya godkännandet för glyfosat, den mest använda herbiciden i världen, för ytterligare tio år. "À l'air libre" tar en titt på hur farligt det är, med Xavier Coumoul, toxikolog vid Paris-Cités universitet.
Oil and gas companies are following the science – indeed, they are using the most advanced science available, and they are using it to extract even more fossil fuel.
[And extreme violence!]
Recension av "Oppenheimer" i Jacobin: [av Leigh Phillips is a science writer and EU affairs journalist. He is the author of Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-Porn Addicts.]
"But even if in the film it’s the radicals who appear to have the first misgivings, it would be a mistake to think that it was the political right that approved of the bombing and only the Left who opposed it. The newspaper of the CPUSA, the Daily Worker, declared after the bombing that the Allies were lucky to have found struck “before the enemy can devise countermeasures.” The paper went on: “So let us not greet our atomic device with a shudder, but with the elation and admiration which the genius of man deserves.” Perhaps, one might counter, such calculation is to be expected from Stalinists. Yet the non-Stalinist but still progressive magazines The Nation and the New Republic felt little differently. Nation editor Freda Kirchwey wrote at the time: “The suffering, the wholesale slaughter it entailed, have been outweighed by its spectacular success.”
Few escaped the twentieth century with their honor intact, although it’s noteworthy that it was the more religious side of the liberal-left who was the first to mark their disquiet at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As historian Paul Boller noted, it was in fact the social gospel–oriented Catholic weekly Commonweal and its protestant counterpart Christian Century that straight out of the gate argued that the bombings had destroyed the nation’s moral position in the world.
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sista stycket: Det finns återigen en antydan i Nolans film. Det ursprungliga löftet om gränslös frigörelse från dominans - vare sig från andra människor eller från resten av naturen - som gavs när modernitetens tre världar förenades under 1900-talets första år, har inte svikits så mycket som det har lämnats ouppfyllt. Det som Oppie och Rabi och resten av efterkrigstidens progressiva motståndare till kärnvapenspridning strävade efter - en internationalistisk egalitarism utan CPUSA:s dogmer och falska vissheter, där hela världen drog nytta av kärnkraften men kärnvapen var förbjudna - förblir målet.