About Frank Kaufmann

Work in: * Religion and Peace * Values in knowledge and Information * Luxembourg * Ivory Coast Consult in: * Interreligious and international relations, * Writing, Editing, Publishing, * Teaching, Training, Education

This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer

This is little more than advertising, and the expression of a concept. Nevertheless, the idea expressed is important, and we wish for progress down this road (Kaufmann – director)  Nuclear power plants are so big, complicated and expensive to build … Continue reading

Myanmar frees 2 Pulitzer-winning Reuters journalists from prison

Myanmar has freed 2 Pulitzer-winning Reuters journalists from a prison on the outskirts of Yangon after they’d spent more than 500 days behind bars, the news agency first reported. Wa Lone, 33, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 29, were convicted of breaking the … Continue reading

Chicken is often the culprit in U.S. food poisoning cases, according to CDC report

Two most common sources of infection have been longtime problems. One of the two, salmonella, can come from an array of foodsincluding vegetables, chicken, eggs, beef and pork. The other germ, campylobacter, is commonly tied to chicken. People may not hear as much … Continue reading

Supreme Court appears likely to let Trump add citizenship question to 2020 census

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court’s ideological divide was on full display Tuesday, and it seemed from their questioning that the court’s conservatives were likely to defer to the Trump administration on adding a question concerning citizenship to the 2020 census … Continue reading

College Admissions Scandal: Actresses, Business Leaders and Other Wealthy Parents Charged

  In a major college admissions scandal that laid bare the elaborate lengths some wealthy parents will go to get their children into competitive American universities, federal prosecutors charged 50 people on Tuesday in a brazen scheme to buy spots … Continue reading

You Don’t Understand Bitcoin Because You Think Money Is Real

Maria Bustillos writes a helpful and informative article on emerging technologies related to currency Bitcoin is an illusion, a mass hallucination, so one hears. It’s just numbers in cyberspace, a mirage, insubstantial as a soap bubble. Bitcoin is not backed by … Continue reading

35 years ago, Isaac Asimov was asked to predict the world of 2019. Here is what he wrote

Originally published Dec. 31, 1983 An essential side product, the mobile computerized object, or robot, is already flooding into industry and will, in the course of the next generation, penetrate the home. There is bound to be resistance to the … Continue reading