What the New Deal Can Teach Us About Winning a Green New Deal

Global Governance: The G20 and a Global Green New Deal

As the world recovers from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the international community should promote a mix of policies to sustain this global recovery and create jobs through reducing carbon dependency, ecological degradation and poverty. Such a Global Green New Deal (GGND) requires a long-term commitment to implementing and coordinating “green investments” by the Group o...

New light from the dark: what blindness can teach us about brain function.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW In this review, we discuss findings from some recent brain imaging studies that shed new light on our understanding of the role of visual experience on the development of the brain morphological and functional architecture in humans. To what extent is vision truly necessary to 'see' the world around us? RECENT FINDINGS Congenitally blind and sighted individuals present analo...

What can the New Hammerhead Ribozyme Structures Teach us About Design?

The hammerhead ribozyme is a small, self-cleaving genomic ribozyme whose substrate-targeting properties are quite flexible. It catalyzes a phosphodiester backbone cleavage reaction that can be exploited for antisense-type applications in which it is desirable to cleave the target RNA. To better understand the requirements for rational hammerhead ribozyme design, the natural history, secondary a...

A New Deal for Globalization

Globalization has brought huge overall benefits, but earnings for most U.S. workers -even those with college degrees -have been falling recently; inequality is greater now than at any other time in the last 70 years. Whatever the cause, the result has been a surge in protectionism. To save globalization, policymakers must spread its gains more widely. The best way to do that is by redistributin...

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