An interesting discussion of human rights in the context of Spain’s "Great Ape Project." July 13, 2008 Ideas & Trends When Human Rights Extend to Nonhumans By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. If you caught your son burning ants with a magnifying glass, would it bother you less than if you found him torturing a mouse [...]
If you feel the need to refer to mobile phones, computer games, or digital cameras, you’re probably a ‘digital immigrant.’ To the natives [including most of those born in the 90s], these are simply phones, games and cameras. – Julian Baggini, paraphrasing Mark Prensky’s concept of ‘Digital Natives’, in a Financial Times review of Susan [...]
This episode of the Colbert Report is hilarious. Reporting on the news that fruit overtook cookies as the #1 snack for kids over 6, they note: It’s an outrage that cookies are no longer the number one snack for children under six. Fruit is un-American.
Today we received some samples of interesting products from Turkey: fruits stuffed with nuts. I thought they were great possible additions to our healthy snacks family – minimally processed, all natural, flavorful, just sun dried. But it was funny (and sad) that in informal focus groups, most consumers were turned off by the look of [...]
Look at this picture up close and you see Albert Einstein. Now step back 15 feet. What do you see? That’s right: Marilyn Monroe! Someone once said they wish their prototype lover had Einstein’s brain and Monroe’s looks – maybe that has not been found, but here you have one with both looks!
The line may be blurry on this one. Japan, Seeking Trim Waists, Measures Millions - an effort to prevent diabetes and obesity from the Japanese government by strictly imposing waistline limits on the population, with penalties for corporations and local governments that do not meet guideposts… New York Times June 13, 2008 Japan, Seeking Trim Waists, [...]
As poignant as when Senator Clinton spoke about how her own Mother was born before women had a right to vote, today when she endorsed Barack Obama with the same tenacity as she displayed during her campaign, she shared an anecdote that encapsulated the historical significance of her campaign: To all those women in their [...]
Following on the footsteps of Rudyard Kipling’s IF, and the message, Don’t Give Up, Senator Clinton spoke today with the same tenacity as she displayed during her campaign, yet somehow with more passion, sincerity and inspiration than any time before: To those who are disappointed that we couldn’t go all the way, especially the young [...]
David Ricardo introduced the theory of "comparative advantage" – advising that each country has the ability to produce a good at lower cost, relative to other goods, compared to another country. Ricardo’s theory advises countries to specialize in the production of goods and services they can produce most efficiently – or with lowest relative costs. [...]
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own. -Herbert Clark HOOVER 31st President of the United States (1874-1964) This, indeed, is one of the paramount challenges faced by democratic systems. Democracy cannot [...]