PLoS Biology | http://biology.plosjournals.org Kofi Annan, the SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations, recently called attention to the clear inequalities in science between developing and developed countries and to the challenges of building bridges across these gaps that should bring the United Nations and the world scientifi c community closer to each other (Annan 2003). Mr. Annan stressed t...

Using UNESCO’s recent data, the effects of a country’s income and ‘tropicality’ on ‘school life expectancy’ are explored. While the effect of income is, as expected, positive and substantial, the distance from the equator, which is a measure of the country’s tropicality, is also important. Two additional points are noted. First, the effect of tropicality, relative to that of income, is larger i...

The physics of angular momentum in even space dimensions can be surprisingly counter-intuitive. Three such suprises, all associated with the properties of supersymmetric rotating objects, are examined: (i) 5D black holes, (ii) Dyonic instantons and (iii) Supertubes. ∗ To appear in proceedings of TH-2002, The International Conference on Theoretical Physics, Paris, UNESCO, July 2002.

The aim of the present article is to discuss the role of the Mediterranean diet as a part of Human Culture and Intangible Cultural Heritage. Until the present, Mediterranean diet has been observed as a healthy model of medical behaviour. After its proposal as a Cultural Heritage of the Humanity at UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), Mediterranean diet is a...

The ethical implications of human clones have been much alluded to, but have seldom been examined with any rigour. This paper examines the possible uses and abuses of human cloning and draws out the principal ethical dimensions, both of what might be done and its meaning. The paper examines some of the major public and official responses to cloning by authorities such as President Clinton, the ...

This paper was commissioned by the Global Education Monitoring Report as background information to assist in drafting the 2017/8 GEM Report, Accountability in education: Meeting our commitments. It has not been edited by the team. The views and opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author(s) and should not be attributed to the Global Education Monitoring Report or to UNESCO. The pap...

The race is a term which has been used by a group of persons living in a territory for several generations. In many cases a culturally homogeneous people has been called a race but an anthropologist looks at it in a different way. They study human race in a purely biological sense and therefore the study of race may be regarded as a branch of science itself. It is a biological phenomenon, which...

1 State Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing Jinagsu 210098, China 2 UNESCO Division of Water Sciences, 1 Rue Miollis, 75732 Paris Cedex 15, France State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan Hubei 430072, China 4 Huibei Irrigation Experiment Station, Kaifeng Henan 475100, China E...