"Yankee ingenuity" has been part of the story of America ever since industrialisation. Mark Twain satirised the stereotype in his novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, in which a mechanic ends up in 6th Century Britain. In short order, he invents explosives, bicycles, lightning rods, barbed wire and Gatling guns. (These come in handy when civil war breaks out and he slaughters the knights of Camelot.)
Ridley Scott's new film, The Martian, gives new life to this ever-popular American theme. Astronaut Mark Watney has to make communications equipment, air, water and food from the meagre supplies of a damaged Mars station so that he can survive long enough to be rescued. It's a fascinating and (so they say) realistic film.Read Laura Cotta Ramosino's review below.
Michael Cook
Editor
MERCATORNET
 | Alone on the Red Planet
Laura Cotta Ramosino | POPCORN | 20 October 2015
Ridley Scott has updated Robinson Crusoe in this tribute to science.
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 | A dialogue on religious liberty and civil rights
Gregory S Baylorand Carolyn Moynihan | FEATURES | 20 October 2015
Conflict between the two is centre stage, but not inevitable.
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 | Is our e-mail private? No.
Denyse O'Leary | CONNECTING | 20 October 2015
What protects most of us is that our words are lost among the trillions.
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 | Water, water, everywhere
Marcus Roberts | DEMOGRAPHY IS DESTINY | 19 October 2015
And hopefully for everyone, even as our population grows
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