January 2009
26 posts
The Places We Live →
“If we tell people about our house, will anyone believe us?” - Nagamma Shilpiri, Mumbai
An essential survival guide in case of apocalypse... →
Hilarious (and sure to rouse some conservative feathers, so to speak)
The Obama Presidency.
Minute by Minute (via... →
“Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher’s...”
– Emile M. Cioran (via rainier)
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Explainer: The Millennium Development Goals →
How Wealth Creates Poverty- Vandana Shiva →
India now has 8% economic growth, yet it is home to a third of the world’s malnourished children.
MONEY HAS BECOME a measure of how wealthy and how poor people are. It has become the measure of human wellbeing. To live on less than a dollar a day is the definition of poverty. To increase incomes to more than a dollar a day is interpreted as an end to poverty. This equating of money with wealth...
International aid and development
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The outcry is muted, but the food crisis is... →
Three problems now dominate the global food scenario. First, there is a crisis of cultivation, especially in the developing world. This is the result of two decades of policy neglect: falling public investment in agricultural research, extension and support; aggressive trade liberalisation that exposed southern farmers to heavily subsidised marketing by northern agribusinesses; financial...
“An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.”
TED: Ideas worth spreading →
Inspired talks by the world’s leading thinkers and doers.
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“how does one feel everything, and nothing, all at once”
The Top 9 Unknown Sci-fi Films to look out for in... →
Things grow better with Coke →
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Gotu Laxmaiah, a farmer from Ramakrishnapuram in Andra Pradesh, said he was delighted with his new cola spray, which he applied this year to several hectares of cotton. “I observed that the pests began to die after the soft drink was sprayed on my cotton,” he told the Deccan Herald newspaper.
Coca-Cola has had a bad year in India.
Other farmers in Andra Pradesh state accused...
Israel acts because the world won't defend it |... →
“The origin of the state of Israel is not religion or nationalism, it is the experience of oppression and murder, the fear of total annihilation and the bitter conclusion that world opinion could not be relied upon to protect the Jews.”
