Author Archives: Harry Katz

Here’s another fabulous TED talk from Hans Rosling.  This one’s about progress on UN Millenium Development Goal #4 – reducing child mortality.  As usual, Rosling combines amazing data, stunning graphics and animated commentary.

I agree with author (and my former writing instructor) Lesley Hazleton, who says in her post Burning Jesus, that Florida pastor Terry Jones deserves to be completely ignored.  However, I’m not sure the mainstream media could or even should ignore … Continue reading →

Great article by Harvard professor Harvey Cox in the Boston Globe, here.

Interesting special report in the Economist a couple of weeks ago — I’m forever behind in my reading — on the spread of mobile phones in emerging markets.  "In places with bad roads, unreliable postal services, few trains and parlous … Continue reading →

Another great TED talk; this one given by Parag Khanna, author of The Second World.  In it, Khanna looks at our increasingly fragmented geopolitical map and suggests we focus less on borders and more on the lines that cross borders … Continue reading →