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The first author, Alexis Carrel, a Nobel Prize winner.

Alexis Ohanian How to make a splash in social media

The 1980s, our first cougar was given to us in the form of Alexis Carrington.

These were the first cloned calves, the first cloned grey wolves, and then, finally, the first cloned piglets Alexis, Chista, Carrel, Janie and Dotcom.

As Greece's prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, admitted recently, Europe is a space for negotiation and mutually beneficial compromises. Integration was a choice and a positive one.

He actually devised some of the same technologies used today for suturing blood vessels, and some of the blood vessel grafts we use today were actually designed by Alexis.

That's the same Charles Lindbergh who actually spent the rest of his life working with Alexis at the Rockefeller Institute in New York in the area of the culture of organs.

But Karl Marx and Alexis de Tocqueville, the two great social analysts of the nineteenth century, knew better what makes people tick, and what makes societies change. Extreme poverty breeds apathy, not rebellion.

The recent Greek elections have brought more radical parties to the fore. Alexis Tsipras, the head of the Coalition of the Radical Left has a valid point internal devaluation cutting wages and prices is failing as a strategy.

ATHENS On July 12, the summit of eurozone leaders dictated its terms of surrender to Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who, terrified by the alternatives, accepted all of them. One of those terms concerned the disposition of Greece s remaining public assets.

Many believe that Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was responding to an ultimatum from his European partners Accept our demands or leave the euro. The question is why a Greek exit from the euro ( Grexit ) amounted to such a potent threat.

If you look back in history, Charles Lindbergh, who was better known for flying airplanes, was actually one of the first people along with Alexis Carrel, one of the Nobel Laureates from Rockefeller, to begin to think about, could you culture organs?

BERKELEY Whatever one thinks about the tactics of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras s government in negotiations with the country s creditors, the Greek people deserve better than what they are being offered. Germany wants Greece to choose between economic collapse and leaving the eurozone.

In a funny, rapid fire 4 minutes, Alexis Ohanian of Reddit tells the real life fable of one humpback whale's rise to Web stardom. The lesson of Mister Splashy Pants is a shoo in classic for meme makers and marketers in the Facebook age.

It seems appropriate that, due to the Iraq war, the world has been debating the nature of democracy 200 years after Alexis de Tocqueville s birth. Tocqueville is justly famous for rejecting reactionary nostalgia and regarding democracy s triumph as our destiny, while warning against the dangers that democracy holds for liberty.

PARIS In Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville argued that the public s trust alleviates pressure on the state, allowing it to function more effectively. This should give some comfort to governments in the Arab world, where a 2012 survey of young people showed 72 of the respondents expressing greater trust in their governments.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and German Chancellor Angela Merkel now have the opportunity to rise to the occasion as European statesmen. Since Tsipras s election in January, German officials have barely been able to contain their fury that a left wing upstart government of a tiny, bankrupt country would dare to challenge one of the world s great economies.

LONDON The good news is that a Greek default, which has become more likely after Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras provocative rejection of what he described as the absurd bailout offer by Greece s creditors, no longer poses a serious threat to the rest of Europe. The bad news is that Tsipras does not seem to understand this.

CAMBRIDGE Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has the chance to become to his country what South Korean President Kim Dae jung and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva were to theirs a man of the left who moves toward fiscal responsibility and freer markets. Like Tsipras, both were elected in the midst of an economic crisis.

BERKELEY When the French politician and moral philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville published the first volume of his Democracy in America in 1835, he did so because he thought that France was in big trouble and could learn much from America. So one can only wonder what he would have made of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida.

Syriza is more a coalition than a unified party, meaning that its leader, Alexis Tsipras, must reconcile moderate socialists, including some of his economic advisers, with radical left wing members. The implementation and impact of Syriza s agenda, especially its decisive economic program, will depend on the new government s ability to maintain support at home and compromise with Greece s creditors abroad.

Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orbán is Putin s staunchest friend in Europe (though Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras seems to want to change that), while Poland s leaders have consistently warned that Russia could become a menace to the continent again. As a result, whereas Hungary pays Gazprom 260 per thousand cubic meters of gas, Poland pays 526 the highest price in the EU.

CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA Sometimes the books that a country s top leaders read can reveal a lot about what they are thinking. So one of the books recently read by some of the incoming members of the Standing Committee of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the country s top decision making body, may come as a surprise Alexis de Tocqueville s The Old Regime and the Revolution.

Following an impressive election victory by his Syriza party in January, Greece s prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, appointed Varoufakis to lead the delicate negotiations with the country s creditors. His mandate was to recast the relationship in two important ways render its terms more amenable to economic growth and job creation and restore balance and dignity to the treatment of Greece by its European partners and the International Monetary Fund.

Since coming to power in January, the Greek government, led by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras s Syriza party, has believed that the threat of default and thus of a financial crisis that might break up the euro provides negotiating leverage to offset Greece s lack of economic and political power. Months later, Tsipras and his finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, an academic expert in game theory, still seem committed to this view, despite the lack of any evidence to support it.

Instead, these clashing narratives created a deleterious spiral, fanning the flames of animosity and leading to the election of a left wing government in Greece with a mandate to oppose austerity with disastrous results for both sides. Rather than help Greece make its payments, the creditors reacted by imposing tough conditions for a new loan that would be used only to repay debts that they themselves held a point that Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras emphasized in his last proposal.