Cusa and Mankind the Immortal Species
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Schiller Institute
Helga Zepp-LaRouche
When we decided to hold this conference shortly after the U.S. election, we anticipated, sort of, that it would be a very dangerous moment in history, so we named the title of the conference, “Creating a World Based on Reason.” Now that may sound a very far distance away, but this conference is not meant to just discuss academically the issues raised, but it is supposed to function as an appeal to all institutions, governments, elected officials, people of good will, to help the Schiller Institute to organize an international alliance of people who will intervene in this present situation, because solutions are there. It is absolutely possible to find a way out of each of the crises. But it requires that people get activated and act as state citizens.
Germany extends support to WFP to scale up food assistance to vulnerable Palestinians
German aid to WFP. (Photo credit: WFP)
JERUSALEM, Thursday, December 17, 2020 (WAFA) - The Government of Germany contributed a €9 million /$10.5 million/ to the United Nations World Food Program /WFP/ to provide much-needed food assistance for the poorest and most food-insecure Palestinian families, today said a WFP press release.
This contribution, from the German Federal Foreign Office, €4 million for 2020 and another €5 million for 2021, has enabled WFP to avert disruptions in its food assistance to approximately 340,000 non-refugee Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, most of them women and children, said the press release.
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How Science Beat the Virus Ed Yong
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In fall of 2019, exactly zero scientists were studying COVID‑19, because no one knew the disease existed. The coronavirus that causes it, SARS‑CoV‑2, had only recently jumped into humans and had been neither identified nor named. But by the end of March 2020, it had spread to more than 170 countries, sickened more than 750,000 people, and triggered the biggest pivot in the history of modern science. Thousands of researchers dropped whatever intellectual puzzles had previously consumed their curiosity and began working on the pandemic instead. In mere months, science became thoroughly COVID-ized.
As of this writing, the biomedical library PubMed lists more than 74,000 COVID-related scientific papers more than twice as many as there are about polio, measles, cholera, dengue, or other diseases that have plagued humanity for centuries. Only 9,700 Ebola-related papers have been published since its discovery in 1976; last yea
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