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Refugees

Disasters: sources of information and trends

Ah le bon français de Microsoft…

East African humanitarian crisis

https://www.nbcnews.com/slideshow/news/refugees-flee-drought-war-in-east-africa-34244347

Global grain stocks

Un succès mondial qui dure: l’école prussienne

Troubles du Déficit de l’Attention: les chasseurs sont parmi nous

Using an Amazon Kindle in Beijing

Why are US presidents taller than ordinary Americans?

Musique d’enfer au Paradis

Je suis Charlie. OK, mais qui suis-je, au juste?

Coup de tabac à Beijing

La France remporte enfin Waterloo? La saga continue!

African geomatics centres

Cellphone and internet boom in Africa!

Amazing maize…

NSA 62nd anniversary

The three rules of crop yield forecasting

Global food supply trends in 2014, and beyond!

Statistical Vs. agronomic significance in crop monitoring and forecasting

A practical joke by MicroSoft?

Using the simple “Miami” Net Primary Production (NPP) potential as a crop monitoring indicator

Un bien bon canular à base d’anus de porc et de calmar

Crop monitoring dialects

The return of the overbite

Mixing time series and cross-sectional data

Forecast and even planned: the Vajont dam disaster

The risky business of forecasting

What, if anything, happened during the Neolithic?

God(s) explained, somehow!

Pandemic or not pandemic: Tipping points & H1N1

Civilisation-ending volcanic winter (note 1)

The cost of hunger and malnutrition

Climate change: vehemence Vs competence

Naming the invisible

Pseudo-ethnicity and neo-dogmatism

Projects that will (perhaps) save the planet

News from the future

Driven into the mountains…

Mountain climate(s)

Are all EC and UN languages really needed

An estimate of the percentage of the world population that speaks a UN language, either as a native or a second language. Based on this link.

Eurobabel

Are neutrinos faster than thought?

Mixing oil, water and food in Saudi Arabia

Xenophobia: who’s immune?

La famine de 1845 en Irlande

Castors et Bieber, Bièvre et Fiber: vagabondage castoréen

Climate-crop impacts: some data issues

Exegesis of a scary and – therefore – often quoted passage from the second book of AR4 (II AR4, 9.4.4)

How to find information on a computer? (revised_02; 20100131)

The mandate of humanity

How difficult it is to be a climatologist…

Le droit d’ignorance, version soft

Les langues européennes se lisent de gauche à droite et de haut en bas, n’est-ce pas?

Recent rainfall and cattle trends in the Central-Western Sahel

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Einstein on crises