For several years, the Bixby Center for Population, Health and Sustainability at UC Berkeley has taught a popular undergraduate course called Poverty and Population. The faculty, Prof. Ndola Prata, Dr. Martha Campbell and I, work in developing countries to make family planning readily available. The GSIs also often end up overseas as summer interns working … Continue reading »
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Lessons learned from 9/11: The Pill is mightier than the sword
Wars drive technology and technology drives warfare. All too often, generals and politicians fight today’s war with yesterday’s strategies. In the American Civil War generals sent men into battle to face greatly improved firearms, but they continued to marshal their troops in the formations Napoleon had used. At Gettysburg over 7,000 men died and over … Continue reading »