Monthly: June, 2012
THEY CALLED HER THE OZONE GIRL
Appetiser by Morten Grønborg
When she was 16, Sara Naseri had an idea that could change the world. Because she had a second idea that made it possible to bring the first one to fruition, she now works with scientists and travels around the world as the CEO of her own company. Read her story about [...]
Where’s my flying car?
By Jan Drejer Petersen
Every day we are helped through life with products from some inventor’s imagination. Most of these products are so ingrained in our everyday lives that we rarely think of them as inventions. We use electricity, combustion engines, shoes and pasteurisation without giving them a second thought.
In a similar fashion, our modern disease-resistant [...]
WILDCARDS AND RISKS: Bioterrorism
By Klaus Æ. Mogensen
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, several American media people and members of Congress received letters containing a white powder. It turned that this powder was anthrax bacteria, and five of the recipients subsequently died of the dangerous disease. This attack is the latest known example of [...]
Fears about a European catastrophe have given birth to a political monster: a German Europe!
By Prof. Dr. Ulrich Beck
There used to be a cacophony of voices. Now, suddenly, Europe has just one phone. “It rings in Berlin, and at the moment it belongs to Angela Merkel,” writes professor Ulrich Beck in this essay about Europe, where he explains why Germany’s dominance is unfortunate and provides a new vision for [...]
