June 7, 2007 Dear Diary, Bill was wrong. The TV did not distract me from the weekend media cycle, used to trot out the latest Hillary-as-Lady-Macbeth biographies. Yet the stress is gone, and I feel both serene and mildly exhilarated after watching, of all things, a show about New Jersey gangsters. In a few […]
Agriculture the Culprit for Child Labor?
A study by the ILO – International Labor Organization revealed that today there are approximately 218 million child workers in the world, 70 percent of them (approximately 132 million) in agriculture. Jose Maria Sumpsi, FAO assistant director for Agriculture and consumer protection, deemed this number “unacceptable,” adding that these children often have to work in […]
20% of men who think they are fathers are not.
20% of men who think they are fathers are not. Random DNA checks prove that 20% of men who think they are father are not. This statistic is truly shocking. There’s a whole evolutionary game theory worked out to explain this. Simply put, a woman wants to bind a man into a monogamous relationship so […]
USA, land of violence?
The new Global Peace Index rank US on 96th, Iraq ranks last The USA, to many (inside the country, at least) the land of freedom and opportunity, is also a land of violence. According to a study published by the Economist Intelligence Unit – EIU, the renowned think tank associated with The Economist, called […]
Britain behind Gukurahundi massacres
A former Zimbabwean freedom fighter who, himself, was a victim of Gukurahundi says Britain and not South Africa was behind the 1980s massacres that left nearly 30 000 innocent civilians from Matabeleland and the Midlands dead. Douglas Moyo* says South Africa was just a front. Britain was the brains behind the massacres. All it […]
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 […]