Articles By: Alexander Naylor

Climate Rhetoric Heats Up: The Rest Versus the West

In late January, Usama Bin Laden made an extended statement expounding on the reality of climate change and its effects on the world: “The effects of global warming have touched every continent. Drought and deserts are spreading, while from the other floods and hurricanes unseen before the previous...

March 11th, 2010 | HEADLINES | Read More

The Other Nuclear Option (You Know, the One That Involves Fission)

Although in recent months the term “nuclear option” has mainly applied to legislative tactics, during Wednesday’s State of the Union address Obama discussed the original nuclear options. One—nuclear proliferation—he emphatically rejected. The other—nuclear power—he strongly endorsed, eliciting...

January 31st, 2010 | HEADLINES | Read More

White Suburbanites Vote Republican, Stun Nation

(Revised on 26 January) Even though I was born in Boston, I spent my early years in the town of North Andover, in northeastern Massachusett’s Essex County. Full of greenery, winding roads, old cottages and a Congregationalist church, it is also home to not a few ostentatious houses and parking spaces....

January 21st, 2010 | HEADLINES | Read More

Implementing Solar Power on an Unevenly-Lighted Planet

A community center in Würrich, Germany with solar panels on its roof (wikimedia commons) We live on a spherical world, tilted slightly askew. And we have weather. Although we do not think of them now, preconditions such as these will have a profound impact on the way solar energy is implemented in this...