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OCT 16, 2009 • Podcast
Global Ethics Corner: Award Achievement or Encourage Potential: The Nobel's Purpose?
When choosing Nobel Peace Prize winners, should the Nobel Committee think of the future, using the Nobel's prestige to encourage peace-making? Or should they identify ...
OCT 16, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: End of ICE Age, Dawn of Smart Grid
The largest fuel shift in world history will push America's antiquated electricity system to evolve into a smart grid, and in the process it will ...
OCT 16, 2009 • Podcast
Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity
Rwanda, Bosnia, Cambodia, Darfur, Congo, and more--since World War II, genocide has caused more deaths than all wars put together. Goldhagen analyzes how and why ...
OCT 13, 2009 • Podcast
The Science of War: Defense Budgeting, Military Technology, Logistics, and Combat Outcomes
Michael O'Hanlon explains how military modeling and planning are done, taking as examples Desert Storm, the Iraq War, and the decisions to be made now ...
OCT 9, 2009 • Podcast
Global Ethics Corner: When Your Island Sinks
By 2050 some estimate that climate change will displace 150 million people, but the displaced won't qualify as refugees under international law. What should be done about ...