21st Century Science and Technology Spring 2002

Featured in the Spring 2002 Issue Vol. 15, No. 1

FEATURES

Alexander von Humboldt: A Republican Scientist In the Tradition of Franklin
Timothy Rush
The most renowned scientist worldwide in the first half of the 19th Century, Humboldt is barely known today in the country of his greatest philosophical affinities, the United States.

Ibero-America Needs a Space Agency!
Marsha Freeman
It’s time for all the nations of Ibero-America to put forward bold plans for space exploration, and for the developed nations to stop sabotaging such projects, under the guise of non-proliferation.

Spring 2002

NEWS

SPECIAL REPORT
Why There Really Are No Limits to Growth
Ralf Schauerhammer

NUCLEAR REPORT
INTERVIEW WITH WALTER SIMON
General Atomics Reactor in Russia to Burn Weapons Plutonium

PBMR Moves Ahead in South Africa

RESEARCH FRONTIERS
GROWING FOOD IN AIR
A Second Generation Green Revolution
Caroline Hartmann and Elisabeth Pascali

INTERVIEW WITH DR. GIANCARLO COSTA
Out-of-Soil Farming Produces A Superior Product at Less Cost

SPACE
INTERVIEW WITH ACADEMICIAN NIKOLAI ANFIMOV
Inside Russia’s Unique Space Science Institute

2001 Index to 21st Century

DEPARTMENTS

EDITORIAL
The Significance of Gauss’s 1799 Proof
Of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
Laurence Hecht

LETTERS

NEWS BRIEFS

BOOKS
Rickover: The Struggle for Excellence
by Francis Duncan
Reviewed by Theodore Rockwell

The Art of Chesley Bonestell
by Ron Miller and Frederick C. Durant III
Reviewed by Marsha Freeman

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