We have grown so distant from nature that we no longer know, or even care, about where things come from, or how they look in their original state. I was curious about these, so I finally looked it up. Can you guess their origins and natural form? 1) Water Chestnuts 2) Sesame Seeds 3) Oats [...]
Charlotte Allen writes in the Wall Street Journal about the creation of ASMEA, the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, as an counterweight alternative to the highly-politicized MESA, the Middle East Studies Association. Towering scholar Bernard Lewis, described by Allen as the "eminence grise" of Islamic studies, is oddly enough the [...]
This guy, Randy Pausch, is truly inspiring. Make sure you tune in till the end of his presentation.
Ben Stein’s article in the New York Times Wall Street, Run Amok highlights one of the core reasons why our financial system is not working: investment bankers are incentivized to leverage themselves to the sky; the more debt they take, the more their upside from structured deals and the more compensation they get, with the [...]
Is it me or did anyone else notice the extreme bias of the media against Barak Obama this Sunday in all news shows? Whether it’s just a media circus game to extend the political party with a longer nomination fight, or whether it was Senator Clinton’s machine that appealed to the media establishment, it is [...]
With growing human population and consumption, our planet is already strained with water scarcity, fossil fuel scarcity, food scarcity, mineral scarcity, and environmental degradation. Is the big picture that humans will eventually kill each other to compete for scarce resources? Let’s see. We are now 6.7 billion people, and growing. Billions are rising out of [...]
The most humble eat grains and seeds. They don’t have anything else. They live off the earth. The poor eat refined starches, rice, beans. They can’t afford anything else. The luxury many strive for is perceived to be meat. Then the cycle gets completed. As people learn more about nutrition and the environment, they start [...]
It sounds so crazy. With growing climate change, planet earth as we know it is on the brink of a radical transformation that could endanger the very survival of the human race, if not at best require the most painful and radical adjustments for us all. Why then would any rational human being want to [...]
Something serious is going on when rice is rationed by the largest retailer in the world in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. My team member Phil caught this story about it! Wal-Mart’s Sam’s Club chain limits rice purchase By Andria Cheng, MarketWatch Last update: 4:17 p.m. EDT April 23, 2008 NEW [...]
Here is a teaser of two separate parallel campaigns about to be launched to mobilize Palestinian and Israeli citizens to push for a two state agreement in 2008. The guy in the picture, by the way, is Sefi Kedmi, a OneVoice Youth Leader who used to belong to the right-wing Moledet party and then [...]