Harvard Society of Scientists Blog

Running Out of Water: What’s the Problem, What’s the Solution?
Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 4:00p–6:00pm.
E51, Wong Auditorium, MIT

A flurry of recent press coverage has highlighted how access to clean water is  rapidly becoming a serious problem both in the developing world and in the American West. See for example this NY Times Magazine article, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/magazine/21water-t.html The Catherine N. Stratton Critical Issues Lecture brings together four MIT and Harvard professors who have worked on water issues around the world from the vantage of different disciplines. Expect a lively discussion.

http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=11596379&date=2009/10/07

The World After Iraq and Afghanistan

Tuesday,  November 3, 2009, 4:30-6:00 p.m
Gundle Family Classroom, Littauer 230, Harvard Kennedy School.

Robert Kaplan is a fellow at the Center for a New American Security and the foreign correspondent for The Atlantic magazine.  If you don’t read the Atlantic you should. The Atlantic offers thoughtful and thorough articles about current events that provide more perspective than your typical media source. Robert Kaplan has been reporting for the Atlantic for over two decades and he has worked on assignment in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, and the United States. He has also written books on the Balkans, Asia and, most recently, on the American military in Iraq and Afghanistan.

http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/4156/world_after_iraq_and_afghanistan_with_robert_kaplan.html