Below - following a short but intrusive advertisement - is a 15 minute interview by the Economist's Andreas Kluth with Dr Larry Brilliant, who played a leading role in the successful WHO/UN campaign to eliminate smallpox, which killed 0.5b people in the 20th Century. Brilliant was head of Google's philanthropic arm google.org, and is now president of the Skoll Global Threats Fund.
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Ascending Glitterheim, March 2010
Picture by Lise Omholt
Over Easter I skied hut-to-hut across Jotunheimen in Norway from Gausdal to Tyin, with the luck to be able to climb Norway's second highest mountain, Glitterheim (2472 m) on 29 March. My camera broke on the first day, and the pictures I took on my phone are dire, as the European Lynx prints below show. So above I've used a picture by Lise Omholt, who was part of the group I was with for part of the trip. The route is plotted here using Mapometer.
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Encouraging Digital Access to Culture - a March 2010 report by Jonathan Drori
Updated 19/4/2010
Encouraging Digital Access to Culture - [2.5 MB PDF] - went on the Department for Culture, Media and Sport web site just before the election was called, and though it has a Ministerial Foreword, its publication will not be announced till after the General Election, if at all. (As a precaution I've uploaded a copy here.)
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