Elections in African states are manipulated, the opposition suppressed, demonstrations violently dissolved. Europe and the USA ignore this far too often, says political scientist Elena Gadjanova.
consultants, but no such apology was forthcoming in Kenya, Nigeria, or anywhere else
Addressing the challenges of climate change requires diverse knowledge. Researchers at the Max Planck Society are developing legal and economic solutions: Anne Peters, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, focuses on human rights as an international law expert. Economist Axel Ockenfels, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn, explores international climate cooperation as a game theorist and behavioral researcher. The interview reveals how the solutions proposed by economists and lawyers differ.
Where else can help be provided?
Addressing the challenges of climate change requires diverse knowledge. Researchers at the Max Planck Society are developing legal and economic solutions: Anne Peters, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, focuses on human rights as an international law expert. Economist Axel Ockenfels, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn, explores international climate cooperation as a game theorist and behavioral researcher. The interview reveals how the solutions proposed by economists and lawyers differ.
Where else can help be provided?
Addressing the challenges of climate change requires diverse knowledge. Researchers at the Max Planck Society are developing legal and economic solutions: Anne Peters, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, focuses on human rights as an international law expert. Economist Axel Ockenfels, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn, explores international climate cooperation as a game theorist and behavioral researcher. The interview reveals how the solutions proposed by economists and lawyers differ.
Where else can help be provided?
Data from the MeerKAT radio telescope discover an unknown object at the boundary between a black hole and a neutron star
turning point in our understanding of neutron stars, black holes, and whatever else
Florencia Campetella, doctoral student at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, on the 17th century artist, naturalist, entomologist and proto-ecologist Sibylla Maria Merian, the first to depict the life cycles of insects and their ecological connections.
Is there anything else you should like to say about Merian which you couldn’t fit
In order to support people in therapy or in everyday life in the future, machines will need to be able to feel their world and to be capable of gently touching their human counterparts. Katherine J. Kuchenbecker and her team at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart are currently developing the technology required for this objective and are already testing sensitive robots for initial applications.
Everything else we will have to negotiate as a society.
Michael Kramer and Robert Adam talk about MeerKAT, SKA and science in South Africa
African research but also by an international scientific community: Then someone else
In her essay, Max Planck Director Ayelet Shachar describes how governments in western countries are increasingly attempting to control access to their territories far beyond the actual national borders and monitor the mobility of their own citizens. These efforts have been massively intensified with the spread of the corona pandemic. The legal expert warns that this must change as soon as the virus is defeated.
American citizens and permanent residents) and who will be turned away (everyone else
In order to support people in therapy or in everyday life in the future, machines will need to be able to feel their world and to be capable of gently touching their human counterparts. Katherine J. Kuchenbecker and her team at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart are currently developing the technology required for this objective and are already testing sensitive robots for initial applications.
Everything else we will have to negotiate as a society.
