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Innovation in Europe during the crisis

Here’s a report from La Republica on a paper Andrea Filippeti and I are working on. More details (in English) when it’s finished.

War and carbon dioxide

Resource wars. On the occasion of the USA’s Veterans Day, Joe Romm reflects on forthcoming food and water shortages, and the prospect of resource wars. Good discussion, good links. That conflicts over food or other resources can lead to war is not new news, of course: it is in the history of every empire. Last [...]

Museum and lost marbles

Yesterday we visited Athens’ new Acropolis Museum. Not a beautiful building from the outside, but a terrific display space and plainly designed as an argument for the return of those parts of the frieze appropriated by Lord Elgin and now held in London. The argument is made through a demonstration of the power of context. [...]