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Let There be Light!
*Special note: I will stress that this blog pertains to my own reading/interpretation of the book described, but after hearing feedback from my friend, the author, I have made a few minor edits and added explanations. In last week’s blog … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, COP21, Election, IPCC, Sustainability, UN, UNFCCC
Tagged Adaptation, ash, Biology, bipartisan, bottom-up, budget, Clean Energy, climate, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, DOE, Donald Trump, Economics, Electricity, Emissions, emphasis, Energy, energy transition, Environment, EPA, Fossil Fuels, Future, Genocide, Global Warming, governance, Government, grassroots, Health, Hebrew, History, Holocaust, IPCC, Israel, Jew, Jewish, law, light, Mitigation, NIH, NSF, Obama, Palestine, Paris Agreement, Physics, Poland, Policy, president, protection, refugee, regulation, Relli Robinson, Research, Science, Scott Pruitt, Self Inflicted Genocide, Sustainability, Technology, top-down, Trump, UN, UNFCCC, US, Warsaw, Warsaw Ghetto
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Perspectives
I had lunch the other day with a classics professor friend. He made a comment that in one of his classes, a student drew a parallel between the geographic pattern of the recent voting in the US and the differences … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Election, IPCC, Sustainability
Tagged Adaptation, Agriculture, America, America First, American Physical Society, art, Athens, backup, budget, budget cut, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, code, code for science and society, commerce, Congress, dark data, Data, data backup, defense, discretionary fund, DNNer, Donald Trump, eco, eco-friendly, Economics, Education, Election, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, EPA, fact, Fossil Fuels, GDP, geography, Global Warming, Greece, greenhouse gas, Health, History, Holocaust, homeland security, humanities, Israel, justice, Kim Jong Un, Labor, Mick Mulvaney, Military, Mitigation, national endowment, Nazi, NOAA, North Korea, Nuclear, Obama, Physics, politics, Power, priority, public broadcasting, renewable energy, Rex Tillerson, save data, Science, security, software, Sparta, Sustainability, Technology, testosterone, transportation, Trump, trump tower, truth, US, veteran, vote, voter, Warsaw, Warsaw Ghetto
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Election and Urbanization
Last month (November 22), I promised I would focus on some of the non-racial factors that significantly impacted the presidential elections. Last week’s blog explored educational aspects and today’s post will look at the urban/rural divide. The four figures below … Continue reading
Posted in Election
Tagged Anthropocene, borough, census, census bureau, city, Clinton, college, democracy, Democrat, dense, density, Donald Trump, Education, elect, Election, electoral college, eligible, globalization, Growth, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, History, immigrant, immigration, Income, IPAT, Johnson, linear, logarithm, migration, popular vote, populat, Population, Population Density, president, presidential, republic, Republican, rural, scale, Stein, suburban, town, Trump, urban, urbanization, variable, village, vote, voter
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Who is at Fault? Do We Blame the Loser?
Samuel Kassow’s book describes the efforts of a group led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum who documented what was happening around them in the Nazi-occupied Warsaw Ghetto. The group aimed to provide an accurate account of the situation to counter the … Continue reading
Posted in Election
Tagged 22nd amendment, account, Afghanistan, amendment, blame, Bush, change, Clinton, constitution, Democrat, demographic, Donald Trump, economic, Economy, Education, elect, Election, Emanuel Ringelblum, Future, Gender, general election, H. W. Bush, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, historian, History, Holocaust, Iraq, loser, Obama, political party, politician, politics, Population, Power, president, President Obama, presidential campaign, presidential election, primary, Race, Reagan, Republican, rural, Samuel Kassow, Science, secretary of state, survivor, tactic, Transition, Trump, truth, Unemployment, urban, US, vote, voter, War, Warsaw, Warsaw Ghetto, winner, World Population
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My Global Family Vacation Part 4: Malta
Figure 1 (from August 2 blog) Figure 2 – Map of Malta Figure 1 from my August 2nd blog shows my summer vacation route. Malta is a tiny dot on that map but I felt it necessary to show … Continue reading
Posted in immigration
Tagged aditus, Adrian Brody, Africa, Algeria, app, archaeology, asylum, Australia, Austria, Austrian, Christian, Democratization, detention, discrimination, doctors without borders, Economics, EFUS, emigrant, emigration, Environment, EU, Eurodac, Family, family story, Frontex, Game of Thrones, ghetto, Global Population, Gozo, History, Hitler, Holocaust, Human Rights, immigrant, immigration, Israel, Italy, Jewish, Joseph Muscat, Libya, Malta, Maltese, Mediterranean, migration, Nazi, Nazis, Palestine, Pianist, Poland, Polish, Population, refugee, refugee camp, refugee center, refugees, Roman Polanski, safety, Safi, Sustainability, Szpilman, tapestry, Tourism, tourist, UN, UNESCO, UNHCR, Vacation, Warsaw, Wladislaw Szpilman, World Population, xenophobia, xenophobic
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My Global Family Vacation
Map of my global family vacation I have returned from my month-long vacation with my wife. One of the perks of being an academic is that my summers are my own. I show the route of my trip above. Clearly, … Continue reading
Posted in immigration
Tagged age, app, application, Australia, BREXIT, communication, demagogue, democracy, Election, emigrant, emigration, England, EU, Europe, Family, flee, France, free market, generation, Global Population, heritage, History, Holocaust, immigrant, immigration, Israel, lie, lies, Malta, migrant, migration, Nazi, North Africa, oligarchy, Palestine, Palestinian, Poland, Population, presidential campaign, presidential election, ramification, refugee, screening, security, Story, tapestry, terror, Terrorism, terrorist, trade, UK, UN, US, World Population
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Immigration: My Migration History
This is what remained of my family’s house in Warsaw after WWII. There is no longer any trace of it. I gave a brief summation of my early life when I wrote my first blog (April 22, 2012). I was … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, immigration
Tagged Adaptation, Afghanistan, Bergen-Belsen, Brooklyn College, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Change Fork, Climate Skeptics, concentration camp, conflict, CUNY, displace, displaced, displacement, Education, emigrant, emigrate, emigration, Environment, Genocide, German, Germany, ghetto, Global Warming, Hebrew, Hebrew University, Hillersleben, History, Holocaust, immigrant, immigration, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jew, Jewish, Jewish Agency, Jordan, Lebanon, Magdeburg, Mercy Corps, migrant, migration, Mitigation, Nazi, Of Bombs and Mice, Palestine, Physics, Poland, prisoner, professor, refugee, Sofia Ahsanuddin, Sustainability, Syria, Theresienstadt, Turkey, US, Warsaw, WWII, Yemen
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Waiting for Joseph
In a few days, my family, together with Jews all around the world, will start celebrating Passover with the seder meal (seder in Hebrew means “order”). Meanwhile, I assume that following recent tradition, President Obama and many on the White … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Adaptation, Anthropogenic, Bergen-Belsen, Bible, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Cycle, Drought, Egypt, Extreme Weather, Flood, Global Warming, Haggadah, History, Holocaust, IPCC, Israel, Israelites, Joseph, King James Bible, Mitigation, Passover, Pattern, Pentateuch, Periodicity, Pesach, Pharaoh, Power Plants, Science, Seder, Story, Sustainability, Thank you, Theresienstadt, Water, Water Cycle, Water Stress, Weather
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