Opinion by Max Liljefors, Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at Lund University 2013 If you open the first issue of the journal Popular Science, from May 1872, you are struck by something – there are almost no pictures, only ten black and white illustrations over 128 pages full...
Opinion by Sofia Feltzing, Professor of Astronomy, Lund University 2013 Slowly, humanity has built up a picture of the world around us. Through several revolutionary discoveries we have come to learn that the Earth is not the centre of the universe, nor is the Sun. We have learnt that the...
Opinion by Henrik Smith, Professor of Biodiversity at Lund University 2013 After an unusually long and cold winter, I am enjoying the sun on this May day. When you see the new growth sprouting and hear the buzzing of the queen bees looking for a nest, it is difficult to...
Opinion by Leif Stenberg, Professor, Centre for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University What started as local protests in March 2011 has developed into a deeply tragic conflict. In Syria a bloody civil war is still ongoing. The regime, as well as a number of the many armed groups that...
Opinion by Håkan Wallander, Professor of Soil Biology and Environmental Science, Lund University 2014 If we divide the earth’s cultivable land between all its inhabitants, each person gets just 2 000 m2. How can we change the way we live so that there is enough space for everyone? In the...
