Rio+20, the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development, opens today
One of the most enjoyable books I have read recently was undoubtedly Freedom by Jonathan Franzen, a story set in…
The women’s final of the Roland Garros tennis tournament was a David and Goliath affair. On the one hand there…
Today I would like to talk about a superb retrospective dedicated to Alighiero Boetti that has just concluded at the…
Africa keeps drawing my attention, perhaps because it remains a mysterious continent, far from our way of life, while at…
After the first tremors of May 20th, it seems the earth doesn’t want to stop shaking in Emilia Romagna. This…
The Internet has great potential and should be incentivized – of this there is obviously no doubt. However, as is…
You know that I am a massive sport enthusiast. You also know (I mentioned it here and in other ways…
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is the President of Liberia (in her second term in office), Africa’s first woman head of state,…