– by Amira Al Hussaini AIDS, the deadly acquired immune deficiency syndrome, is a taboo word in the Arab world. But the scary word has managed to crop up in many blog posts this week – from Jordan, Iraq, Palestine, Bahrain and Yemen. Jordanian blogger Hareega, a doctor by profession, shares this ‘uncomfortable conversation’ he has had with […]
Japan: The Rising Price of Food
by Chris Salzberg It may seem like a cruel April Fool’s joke, but it isn’t: after dozens of years without change, the prices of many staple foods in Japan are set to rise steeply this month [ja], following a trend that began with the price of bread, constant for 24 years [ja] but already up […]
The Monty Hall Problem
The Monty Hall Problem illustrates an unusual phenomenon of changing probabilities based upon someone else’s knowledge. On the game-show Let’s Make a Deal the host, Monty Hall, asks the contestant to choose one of three possibilities – Door One, Two or Three – with one door leading to a prize and the other two leading […]
Measuring Fitness
By using the General Theory of Biological Relativity problems that plague other theories of fitness may be circumvented. Measuring fitness requires a conceptually similar method to how mass is measured according to the General Theory of (Physical) Relativity. To measure mass we use a scale to compare the effect of a gravitational field on a […]
Jena Bears Strange Fruit
Southern trees bear strange fruit, Blood on the leaves and blood at the root, Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze, Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. Pastoral scene of the gallant south, The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth, Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh, Then […]
Web2.0 is grassroots
This article just serves as an introduction to web2.0 for the grassroots people. So this article is by no means academic. I will try to avoid tech terms. Web2.0 is grassroots in the sense that if you look at web2.0 websites (meetup, craigslist, youtube, flickr, del.icio.us …), they are all built by the user. It […]
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