Guest Thinkers — December 21, 2010

Kerry on Yemen

US Senator John Kerry has an op-ed in The National today on the way forward for Yemen.

He makes a number of very good points. The most important of which, in my mind, is opening GCC countries back up to Yemeni labor. There is no silver bullet solution to Yemen’s problems. Instead, there have to be a variety of different steps taken and, in my opinion, opening the GCC back up to Yemenis is the single most important step that can have the most impact in the near term.

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Thinking

The great free will debate featuring Michio Kaku and Steven Pinker

Who — or what — really controls your mind?

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The Past

The largest accidental explosion of all time

More than a century ago, Halifax suffered an accidental blast one-fifth the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

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High Culture

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Laurie Santos

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