Issues in Conflict, Development and the Environment
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Extreme Ice
Nature photographer James Balog was featured on NPR recently to discuss his work on the Extreme Ice Survey, which takes time lapse photography of glaciers. The videos are incredible. Here's a photo of a glacier in Alaska:
I am a consultant with the World Bank in DC and a recent PhD graduate of economics at the University of California, Irvine. My research is on conflict and post-conflict development, and the economic impact of the environment and environmental change. I am currently working on a randomized impact evaluation for the World Bank in the post-conflict area of northern Uganda.
>> If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
>> One of Einstein's colleagues asked him for his telephone number one day. Einstein reached for a telephone directory and looked it up. "You don't remember your own number?" the man asked, startled.
"No," Einstein answered. "Why should I memorize something I can so easily get from a book?"
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