Greening the Sahara
In light of my last few blog entries, which have been a bit bleak, I'd like to offer a more positive story about the Middle East. I recently visited the Center for Remote Sensing at Boston University, where Dr. Farouk El-Baz is working to transform the Middle East in the best possible way -- making the deserts into arable land by using space-age technology to find ground water.
You can find my story on Nature.com, in its new Boston hub section.
Greening the Sahara
More Bad News, But It's Good We're Talking About It Anyway...
"Sobering" is probably too tame of a word to apply to
the latest from Michael Scheuer on the current status of the "War on Terror." It's a keen-eyed view of some of the most desperate flaws in the current conflict -- most of which represent deep foundational problems in definitions and expectations.
