Berkowitz: Cell Network Rain Data

Berkowitz: Cell Network Rain Data

For the American Physical Society’s Physics magazine, Rachel Berkowitz explains how cellular networks can offer critical rainfall data to the smallholder farmers across Africa who feed most of the continent but lack access to weather-prediction systems used in...

Koopmans: Pocket Rwanda

New for your Kindle, Andy Koopman’s Rwanda (The Evolution of Africa’s Major Nations). If all you can recall about the country is ethnic wars in the 1990s, get an update from Andy’s fact-filled, up-to-date book. Prefer reading about Seth Rogen? Andy’s got you...