“As a traditional African saying has it, umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu, persons depend on persons to be persons. By being concerned with values, education is concerned with the humanity of people and its full development. Values are not a luxury item in an educational system but its heart and life.” These words, spoken on April 10, [...]

Space and numbers, this is mathematics stripped down to its bones, its roots, its beginnings. The discovery and development of new methods in mathematics have never been more active or vital than they are today. Sometimes seen as the science of pattern and order, math relies on logic as a standard of truth, yet still [...]

How valuable will carbon credits become? This is a good question, a question that has a very optimistic implication. Thorsten Ansorg is often asked this question in his capacity as the Frankfurt-based managing director of Noble Carbon Credits Ltd. Mr. Ansorg’s company is the emissions trading market arm of the Hong Kong trading firm Noble [...]

Forty years ago on July 20, 1969, two men from Earth first landed on the Moon. Ten years before this historic date, in 1959, Dietrich E. Gudzent landed in Huntsville, Alabama (from Germany) to join Dr. Wernher Von Braun’s team. This team developed the Saturn rocket that powered the Apollo spacecraft to the [...]