- Using sunlight and seawater to grow food – is this a breakthrough agricultural technique?
- “It takes a $50,000 missile fired from a $50 million launcher to defeat something that might cost $100 to build” – the economics of Israel’s Iron Dome.
- How are rebel groups numbered in the hundreds able to outwit armies in the tens of thousands? James Fearon on the fragility of some African states.
- I still keep hearing that shale oil is a new technology, but Scotland had a shale oil boom in the 1850s.
The economics of israel’s iron dome was a very interesting article (including some of the comments underneath!) And it was all funded by the USA. What would be the cost of a ‘yes’ vote in the UN so that both parties have equal rights of access and recognition?