San Jose street art
Some murals in San Jose, Costa Rica: A mural of Costa Ricans. A close-up of the mural above: “All people are born marvelously different.” – Jorge A. Livraga A mural encouraging recycling.
Innovation Challenge
One of my colleagues was a judge for the Be the Change-Duke Innovation Challenge, which encouraged college students to celebrate innovations for maternal health. The winners were just selected, so head over to the website and check them out.
Fast Five in Puerto Rico
The movie Fast Five is set in Brazil, but was filmed in Puerto Rico while Alissa and I were there this summer. The crew’s base was La Concha, where Alissa was put up by her office after I headed back to the mainland. Here are some images showing how San Juan, Puerto Rico, was transformed […]
Scale of the Universe web page
This is one of the coolest websites I’ve seen in a long time. Scale of Universe shows the proportional sizes of everything from the basic fabric of the space-time continuum to the circumference of the known universe.
WMD
You can usually tell whether or not you’re in the right meeting in Washington, DC by whether or not you understand the abbreviations. Sometimes, though, even that doesn’t help. Coming from the international security world, I thought I knew what “WMD” meant. (Weapons of mass destruction.) But that didn’t quite fit the context. I’m now […]
Egypt
I’ve had the honor of working with many Egyptians on issues of justice and equality before the law. The bad photo of me below is from the Cairo-based newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm, in an article on religious freedom (summary translation here). But it’s very easy to talk while other people have their families and safety on […]
Nonproliferation in the Middle East
Last month The Stimson Center published Johan Bergenas’ analysis of how the Gulf Cooperation Council and the League of Arab States can help to keep nuclear weapons from spreading further through the Middle East, while supporting the peaceful use of nuclear energy. Having had the opportunity to see the study (A Piece of the Global […]
Happy New Year, and welcome to the new site
Today marks the launch of my new website, with some major changes in both appearance and functionality. Partly the revamp is based on the fact that an overhaul was simply overdue, but it’s also intended to make it easier for the site to accommodate updates about several new projects that are slated for release this […]