Tag: Ecuador

  • Nation & World

    Protests, inequality, and brutal crackdowns in Latin America

    David Rockefeller Center panel details state of democracies in various nations across Latin America.

    5 minutes
    Steven R. Levitsky.
  • Nation & World

    Climbing out of hiding

    For decades, scientists have been stymied in their attempts to better understand proboscis anole, a small lizard whose defining feature is a horn on its nose, because it appeared to be all but extinct — until now.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Caught in the act

    Breaking up may actually not be hard to do, say scientists who’ve found a population of butterflies that may be on its way to a split into two distinct species.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Through a child’s eye

    At first glimpse, the photos don’t seem particularly revealing: a fish on a plate, a television, clean dishes on a rack, a toddler with outstretched arms, a lighted porch. But to Wendy Luttrell, these pictures — and 1,600 others like them in her data base at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) — open…

    6 minutes