Month: October 2013
October 27, 2013
What Future?
Luis Rubio Some days ago, surfing TV channels in a hotel room, I found myself watching a discussion program on TVE, the official Spanish television network. The matter being debated...
October 21, 2013
Mid-river
Forbes – Luis Rubio Marie Curie, the Nobel Prize winning scientist, on a certain occasion affirmed that “one never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to...
October 20, 2013
Energy vs. Ecology
Luis Rubio In the Christmas movie “It’s a Wonderful Life”, Clarence, a guardian angel, shows leading character George Bailey what would have happened had he not lived. For this Clarence...
October 13, 2013
Confusions and Certitudes
Luis Rubio The story goes that as Mark Twain, the great American author, and novelist William Dean Howells stepped outside for a walk one morning a downpour began, and Howells...
October 06, 2013
Pockets of Resistance
Luis Rubio All governments end up encountering pockets of resistance. Some are very ambitious and try to change many components of the status quo, while others simply confront groups that,...