Archive for the ‘nobel’ tag
Walter Russell Mead had an interesting photograph from Al Gore’s Nobel prize ceremony in his column, “The Death of Global Warming.” I don’t see too good. What’s that on Al Gore’s prize?…
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REASON: The Man Who Saved More Human Lives Than Any Other Has Died
Norman Borlaug, the man who saved more human lives than anyone else in history, has died at age 95. Borlaug was the Father of the Green Revolution, the dramatic improvement in agricultural productivity that swept the globe in the 1960s.
I first learned about Norman Borlaug in this paean from Penn and Teller’s TV show, “Bullshit.”
