A silent revolution
Hanns-J. Neubert | November 30, 2025Reporting from the World Science Forum, Hanns Neubert senses a sea change in attitudes towards the role of science in reducing poverty. Governments are spending more; young people are choosing science careers. Yet poor people will not benefit with…
read moreHanns-J. Neubert: When Knowledge Fails
Hanns-J. Neubert | 02 September 20251 September 2009, Hamburg, GermanyGoing back home by car from the ‘Towards Knowledge Democracy’ conference in Leiden, the many hours of long, slow going in a traffic jam up to the border with Germany gave me the opportunity to think about two simp…
read moreHanns-J. Neubert: Knowledge without literacy is like information without knowledge
Hanns-J. Neubert | 25 August 2025I like to travel, but I do not like to fly. Not a fear of flying, but being trapped in artificial air for hours and hours, from entering the doors of the airport of departure until stepping out of the destination airport in search of a taxi. Usual…
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