Monthly Archives: October 2011
“Presumed Guilty”
Earlier this month the Stanford community had the opportunity to meet Roberto Hernández and Layda Negrete, the two directors of Presumed Guilty. The documentary, which deals with the Mexican criminal justice system, has been highly praised by international film critics, … Continue reading
Elsewhere on the web: Article from Richard Muller, professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of “Physics for Future Presidents” (W.W. Norton & Co., 2008) on the findings of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project. The … Continue reading
Elsewhere on the web: The Economist has a short article on a study by Jonathan Koomey of Stanford University showing that the electrical efficiency of computers has doubled every 1.6 years since the mid-1940s. Good news from the climate change viewpoint … Continue reading
Innovating for Poverty Action
Stanford has started another academic year, and all of us here at IPSofacto have recently returned from summers spent making international policy, or at least sitting at desks trying to look like we were making international policy. To start off … Continue reading