Guest Thinkers — December 21, 2010

Video from Yemen Confrence

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A couple of weeks ago, I was part of a panel on Yemen hosted by the National Council on US-Arab Relations.

The video for that event is now on-line and available.

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Books

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Historians Alexandra Churchill and Nicolai Eberholst reexamine the pivotal conflict from a grassroots perspective.

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Starts With A Bang

The incredible physics of quantum levitation

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