Wen Jiabao (for Science)
The history of modernization is in essence a history of scientific and technological progress. Scientific discovery and technological inventions have brought about new civilizations, modern industries, and the rise and fall of nations. China is now engaged in a modernization drive unprecedented in the history of humankind.
Over the past half century, China [...]
Science and China’s Modernization
Is There Really a Freshwater Crisis?
Nell Fox (Scientific American)
Today fully one-sixth of the world’s human population lacks access to clean drinking water, and more than two million people—mostly kids—die each year from water-borne diseases. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), an independent organization that provides economic, development and humanitarian assistance around the world in support of the foreign policy [...]
Crisis y defensa nacional
Por Hugo Guerra para El Comercio
Ilustrado lector, en situaciones de crisis financiera mundial como la presente, uno de los fenómenos colaterales más peligrosos es la alteración de la paz. Así, el crack de 1929-1933 prologó la II Guerra Mundial.
Hoy, en pleno abismo especulativo estadounidense, Venezuela está introduciendo en la región componentes de amenaza bélica que [...]
Belaunde, huella indeleble
Por Raúl Diez Canseco T. para El Comercio
El 4 de junio del 2002, a los 90 años partió a la eternidad el presidente Fernando Belaunde Terry. Hoy martes 7 de octubre habría cumplido 96 años. En cuatro años más, en 2012, conmemoraremos el centenario del nacimiento de este peruano ilustre, considerado por todas las encuestas [...]
Hacia donde vamos?
31 de Octubre de 2008
Como era esperado, el Congreso peruano aprobó el proyecto de ley 02713, el cual deja más explicita la manera de distribuir el canon minero de compañias que explotan más de una circunscripción territorial. Desafortunadamente para Tacna, ésta modificatoria aún cuando coherente desde el punto de vista técnico, compromete directamente el [...]
Caos y Violencia en Tacna
Deplorables e inexplicables sucesos en Tacna
Science and China’s Modernization
Wen Jiabao (for Science)
The history of modernization is in essence a history of scientific and technological progress. Scientific discovery and technological inventions have brought about new civilizations, modern industries, and the rise and fall of nations. China is now engaged in a modernization drive unprecedented in the history of humankind.
Over the past half century, China [...]
Economics needs a scientific revolution
Jean-Philippe Bouchaud (Nature)
Compared with physics, it seems fair to say that the quantitative success of the economic sciences has been disappointing. Rockets fly to the Moon; energy is extracted from minute changes of atomic mass. What is the flagship achievement of economics? Only its recurrent inability to predict and avert crises, including the current worldwide [...]
The Quantum Limit to Moore’s Law
The author predicts that in the year 2036 Moore’s law and quantum physics will converge.
Full Text (Proceedings of the IEEE)
Serial computing is dead; the future is parallelism
By Bridget Botelho for SearchDataCenter.com
Serial computing is dead, and the parallel computing revolution has begun: Are you part of the solution, or part of the problem?
That was the question posed by Dave Patterson, head of the Parallel Computing Laboratory at UC Berkeley, during his keynote address at the Usenix conference in Boston on June 26.
“I [...]
Hacia donde vamos?
31 de Octubre de 2008
Como era esperado, el Congreso peruano aprobó el proyecto de ley 02713, el cual deja más explicita la manera de distribuir el canon minero de compañias que explotan más de una circunscripción territorial. Desafortunadamente para Tacna, ésta modificatoria aún cuando coherente desde el punto de vista técnico, compromete directamente el [...]
Science and China’s Modernization
Wen Jiabao (for Science)
The history of modernization is in essence a history of scientific and technological progress. Scientific discovery and technological inventions have brought about new civilizations, modern industries, and the rise and fall of nations. China is now engaged in a modernization drive unprecedented in the history of humankind.
Over the past half century, China [...]
Hacia donde vamos?
31 de Octubre de 2008
Como era esperado, el Congreso peruano aprobó el proyecto de ley 02713, el cual deja más explicita la manera de distribuir el canon minero de compañias que explotan más de una circunscripción territorial. Desafortunadamente para Tacna, ésta modificatoria aún cuando coherente desde el punto de vista técnico, compromete directamente el [...]
Caos y Violencia en Tacna
Deplorables e inexplicables sucesos en Tacna
Is There Really a Freshwater Crisis?
Nell Fox (Scientific American)
Today fully one-sixth of the world’s human population lacks access to clean drinking water, and more than two million people—mostly kids—die each year from water-borne diseases. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), an independent organization that provides economic, development and humanitarian assistance around the world in support of the foreign policy [...]
Economics needs a scientific revolution
Jean-Philippe Bouchaud (Nature)
Compared with physics, it seems fair to say that the quantitative success of the economic sciences has been disappointing. Rockets fly to the Moon; energy is extracted from minute changes of atomic mass. What is the flagship achievement of economics? Only its recurrent inability to predict and avert crises, including the current worldwide [...]
Why societies collapse?
Why do societies fail? With lessons from the Norse of Iron Age Greenland, deforested Easter Island and present-day Montana, Jared Diamond talks about the signs that collapse is near, and how — if we see it in time — we can prevent it.
Jared Diamond is an award-winning scholar of ecology, biology and [...]
Crise: o que vem aí
Por Fernando Canzian (Folha de São Paulo)
Um dos mais experientes repórteres de uma grande agência de notícias em Washington saiu de um "pueblito" latino-americano miserável há décadas e fez a vida na América.
Encontrei-o no fim de semana com cara de enterro na sala de imprensa do FMI (Fundo Monetário Internacional). Seu fundo de aposentadoria [...]
La región blindada
Por Julio María Sanguinetti para El Comercio
Desde 1929 no se ha visto algo igual. Y, como siempre, todos miran al Estado cuando las papas queman. Confirmando a la historia, en el terror del naufragio económico, las soluciones políticas manejadas por los Estados son los únicos salvavidas disponibles. Normalmente, hasta el día antes han sido despreciados [...]
Crisis y defensa nacional
Por Hugo Guerra para El Comercio
Ilustrado lector, en situaciones de crisis financiera mundial como la presente, uno de los fenómenos colaterales más peligrosos es la alteración de la paz. Así, el crack de 1929-1933 prologó la II Guerra Mundial.
Hoy, en pleno abismo especulativo estadounidense, Venezuela está introduciendo en la región componentes de amenaza bélica que [...]
Nearing the End
Editorial from The New York Times
No matter who wins the presidential election, the United States is on its way out of Iraq. Senator Barack Obama offers the most specific and speediest withdrawal plan, but even Senator John McCain will not be able to keep a large number of combat troops there for long.
Without a [...]