Mauyen Keane, Love Without Border in War-Torn Europe : An Irishwoman’s Story

Economic Reconstruction of War-Torn Countries:

With the end of the Cold War, a large number of countries in the developing world emerged from civil conflict or another form of chaos in the early 1990s. While Cold War related conflicts winded down, a number of ethnic conflicts erupted, and several military interventions took place. Interventions were justified either for humanitarian purposes, as in the Balkans and several countries in Afric...

All's fair in love and war.

that causes blast disease. First seen in Brazil, wheat blast last year caused devastating crop losses in Bangladesh. Inoue et al. tracked down the shifting genetics that have allowed the emergence of this potentially global threat to wheat crops (see the Perspective by Maekawa and Schulze-Lefert). Wheat varieties with a disabled resistance gene were susceptible to pathogen strains that affected...

From the connectome to the synaptome: an epic love story.

A major challenge in neuroscience is to decipher the structural layout of the brain. The term "connectome" has recently been proposed to refer to the highly organized connection matrix of the human brain. However, defining how information flows through such a complex system represents so difficult a task that it seems unlikely it could be achieved in the near future or, for the most pessimistic...

Malthusian Dynamism and the Rise of Europe: Make War, Not Love

Malthusian conditions are a byword for stagnation. We argue that this view is wrong. Europe’s relative riches in 1700 are best understood as the result of Malthusian forces favoring high per capita output. Favorable shifts in mortality and fertility schedules were responsible. Incomes between 1300 and 1800 rose because of two related but distinct European “inventions”—a peculiar marriage patter...

Privacy and Markets: A Love Story