Monthly Archives: October 2018

An extraordinary book has recently gone on display at the Barakat Gallery in Los Angeles and the Taschen bookstore in New York City. Murals of Tibet , by the American photographer Thomas Laird, is not just extraordinary in size—the 500-page … Continue reading →

Historians argue among themselves whether Thucydides is a moralizing philosopher or, in a common phrase, “the first scientific historian.” What is radical about him, and gives him his unerring clear-sightedness, is that he is both. Source: What Thucydides Knew About … Continue reading →

A stark new United Nations climate report warns that humans have about 12 years to slash global emissions by nearly half. Unfortunately, that’s going to be extremely challenging with deep changes to the global financial system. Despite regularly claiming new … Continue reading →

Since 1991, the world’s oceans have absorbed an amount of heat energy each year that is 150 times the energy humans produce as electricity annually, according to a new study. The strong ocean warming the researchers found suggests that Earth … Continue reading →