UNESCO Courier articles from June 1994

UNESCO Courier archives from June 1994

Antoni Tapies. (Interview)
June 1, 1994... talks to Serafin Garcia Ibanez Born in Barcelona in 1923, Antoni Tapies is one of the greatest Spanish artists of our time. Largely self-taught, he was influenced early in his career by the Dadaists and the Surrealists and then in the 1950s he...

Biotechnology for beginners. (Biotechnology: The Resourceful Gene)
June 1, 1994... AMONG the more than five billion women, men and children living on our planet, no two individuals are alike and the same is true of cross-pollinated plants as well as animals and microorganisms. This kaleidoscopic diversity, which exists in all...

Achievements, expectations and challenges. (includes related article) (Biotechnology: The Resourceful Gene)
June 1, 1994... Advances in biotechnology are transforming social and economic structures THE world of biotechnology is vast and varied. Some idea of just how varied can be gauged from a report published by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and...

The magic of mushrooms. (Biotechnology: The Resourceful Gene)
June 1, 1994... Fungus with a future THE mushroom has always been a thing of mystery. In ancient times the seemingly miraculous manner of its growth without seed, its sudden appearance after rain, its equally rapid disappearance and its curious umbrella-like...

Creative ferment. (Biotechnology: The Resourceful Gene)
June 1, 1994... Known since Antiquity, fermentation processes offer great opportunities to today's food industry FERMENTED foods and beverages, in their many and varied forms, have been a great source of pleasure to humans over the centuries. The ancient art...

Defeating decibels. (noise pollution) (Greenwatch)
June 1, 1994... What is a drop of water? It's the best way of demonstrating how noise is transmitted. When a water drop hits the surface of a pond, it causes waves that spread outward in concentric circles, just as sound waves move through the air. Moreover when...

The lesson of Easter Island. (Greenwatch)
June 1, 1994... Population Action International (PAI) is an American non-governmental organization whose work is inspired by a historical event. When a group of Polynesian voyagers arrived on Easter Island in the fifth or sixth century A.D., they found a...

A rising tide. (Biotechnology: A Resourceful Gene)
June 1, 1994... IT is only a decade since marine biotechnology was first recognized as an area of great potential. In that short span of time astonishing progress has been made. Some of the most striking advances have been in the aquaculture industry, where...

From the green revolution to the gene revolution. (Biotechnology: A Resourceful Gene)
June 1, 1994... THE rapidly-growing world population and increasing demand for more and better food are certain to pose serious threats to social, political, economic and environmental stability early in the twenty-first century. Without a decline in the current...

Art and the science of life. (Biotechnology: A Resourceful Gene)
June 1, 1994... ART and science both endeavour to explore the mysteries of existence. Art does it by creating physical forms that reveal intangible subject matter or illuminate previously unconsidered aspects of the physical world. Science progresses by...

Sharing the future.
June 1, 1994... LOOKING towards the future, I think UNESCO's role could be summed up as fighting for human dignity and solidarity, both of which are inseparable from respect for freedom. North and South alike are doomed not only to suffer the same endemic...

Butrinti rediscovered.
June 1, 1994... In Albania, archaeologists have rescued a great city of the Ancient World from the mud and vegetation that concealed it for centuries ALBANIA has witnessed the passing of a wide variety of civilizations. From Antiquity to the beginning of the...

Death, where is thy sting? (Martin Luther King anniversary)
June 1, 1994... MARTIN Luther King, Jr., who was born on 15 January 1929, would have been seventy-five years old this year. He died, aged less than forty, assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on 4 April 1968. Anniversaries have a definite role to play in the...

The downfall of idealism. (part 2)
June 1, 1994... In this second excerpt from the address he gave in 1935 at a meeting organized in Nice by the International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation on the theme of the education of modern man (see previous issue), the German writer Thomas Mann has...

Peregrination.
June 1, 1994... When Renaissance Europe discovered the distant East Peregrinations of Fernao Mendes Pinto, in which he relates the very numerous and very strange things which he saw and heard in the Kingdoms of China and also of Tartaria, of Sornau, which is...