Foreign 1 percenters are certainly not dense. They would be delighted to collect the type of capital gains that their American counterparts do. It’s just that the rules in their countries don’t allow it.
Source : The Atlantic
Author: kaushik
Deaths spotlight Taiwan’s ‘overwork’ culture
Women’s Voices from Quito
The campaign was an initiative of the city of Quito, but has reached a national scale — it has gathered more than 11,000 original letters, according to the latest counts. The campaign is already exhibiting its results in Quito’s Contemporary Art Center. Once it is over, the most representative stories will be disseminated through radio and television and even become cinema productions. The most important expectation from the campaign, though, is that the city’s government policies on gender will be inspired by real problems and effective solutions coming from these letters.
Source : Polis
What Facebook and Twitter Mean for News
Over all, just 9% of Americans very often follow news recommendations from Facebook or from Twitter on any of the three digital devices (computers, smartphones or tablets). That compares with more than a third, 36%, who very often go directly to news organizations on one of their devices, 32% who get news from search very often, and 29%
Source : State of the Media
Think . Make . Rest . Decide
Facebook’s ‘dark side’: study finds link to socially aggressive narcissism
“The way that children are being educated is focussing more and more on the importance of self esteem – on how you are seen in the eyes of others. This method of teaching has been imported from the US and is ‘all about me’.
Source : The Guardian
Coca-Cola in Africa
But Coca-Cola’s strategy goes deeper than the coat of red and white paint. The corporation is responsible for sales infrastructure, supplying signs, ice boxes, refrigerators (if electricity is available) and bottle openers. It encourages owners to pair the beverage with local snacks to create “combo meals.” It helps — usually just a man with a push-cart — make their routes more efficient. It teaches business skills and promotes entrepreneurship.
Source : Polis
Quote of the week
Men’s evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.
– Shakespeare
How a Japanese paper rose to the occasion in tsunami disaster
When the March 2011 tsunami struck, leaving 19,000 people dead or missing and triggering the Fukushima nuclear disaster, it also submerged the Ishinomaki Hibi Shimbun’s presses. The 14,000-circulation paper had the biggest story of its 100-year existence on its doorstep, but no way of printing it. So its reporters did what monks in European monasteries once did with the bible by copying out their stories by hand.
Source : The Guardian
UN calls for overhaul of global financial system to benefit the poor
“Financial sectors have already returned to many of the old practices, even as public finances deteriorate and the recovery stalls,” he said. “Austerity measures are back on the agenda and resistance to financial regulation has begun in earnest.”
Source : The Guardian
Humble Friends to the Rescue
This research builds upon a growing body of evidence that humility is an important trait that results in a variety of pro-social and positive outcomes,” says the author. “It also suggests that if we can encourage humility in our communities, people may be more helpful to those in need.
Source : The Atlantic
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