Carl Gierstorfer

I am currently on a grant by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to investigate the social consequences of sex-selective abortion in India. You can follow me here.

Also, there will be a new website soon!!!!

A 26-minute reportage on how Burma’s youth is experiencing the rapid change in their country (in French and German).

Applying evolutionary rationale to human behavior is full of pitfalls. Trying to decipher how and why humans chose their respective partner is even trickier. Monique Borgerhoff-Mulder, fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, gave it a try (article in German).

Electricity in rural Africa? Nope.

Sunshine, solar power? Well, you know, we have a rainy season, too.

Alas, meet the pedal-powered LED-lights and their witty entrepreneurs.

(German version here).

Ever wanted to know how the CO2 emission trading scheme works? Here is the theory. And here is why it actually doesn’t work (in German).