“I have heard cocoa beans are used to make a kind of food young children love. People say the taste is sweet,” the 25-year-old said, standing in an orchard full of yellow cocoa pods.
Source : Guardian
Author: kaushik
Al Jazeera to relaunch citizen media platform Sharek
Last year Al Jazeera’s head of social media Riyaad Minty told the media140 conference in Barcelona that during the Arab Spring Sharek was receiving up to 1,600 videos a day at its peak, which he said prompted the broadcaster to work on building its resources to be able to deal with and verify this material.
Source : www.journalism.co.uk
iOS app success is a lottery: 60% (or more) of developers don’t break even
“The App Store is very much like the lottery, and very few companies are topping the charts,” Kafasis told Ars. “It’s a hit-based business. Much like music or book sales, there are a few huge winners, a bigger handful of minor successes, and a whole lot of failures.”
Source : Ars Technica
Crisis doctors fastfood deals ban
“Doctors think it’s inherently unlikely that huge companies that make money from selling high-calorie foods and drinks, like McDonald’s and Coca-Cola, are going to persuade their customers [to eat more healthily]. It’s like asking the petrol companies to say to people, ‘why not go on your bicycle?’. It just does not seem likely that’s going to happen.”
Source : The Guardian
Wordless Collaboration
The story of the project’s origins is shrouded in mystery, but what is known is that, because the residents couldn’t decide on what they wanted to build, they made three rules. The first was that, not only would they build without any plan or blueprint, they would not discuss the direction of the project at all. Second, when they were on the building site, no one was allowed to speak — at all. Third, the building would never be completed, because anyone at any point could decide to take it in a new direction.
Source : Polis
The One Thing CEOs Need to Learn from Apple
Jobs said in an interview with Betsy Morris in 2008, “People think focus means saying ‘yes’ to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying ‘no’ to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done.”
Source : HBR
When Will this Low-Innovation Internet Era End?
Then there’s another view, which I heard from author Neal Stephenson in an MIT lecture hall last week. A hundred years from now, he said, we might look back on the late 20th and early 21st century and say, “It was an actively creative society. Then the Internet happened and everything got put on hold for a generation.”
Source : HBR
Quote of the week
It seems that religiously conservative fathers were more likely to send their daughters to school after the revolution than before. With higher female enrollment and literacy came later marriages and a steep reduction in desired family size. It is ironic that the Bush administration’s attitudes toward family planning are in many ways more fundamentalist than Iran’s.
– Jeffrey D. Sachs
Anti-abortion climate ‘will deter new generation of doctors’
A spokesperson for the BPAS said: “Abortion is a vital yet stigmatised area of women’s healthcare which few doctors train in. The current politicisation of abortion provision is likely to make it even harder to recruit a future generation of abortion doctors who are prepared to provide the care that a third of women will need in the course of their lifetimes.”
Source : The Guardian
Fewer than half of state school teachers encourage Oxbridge applications
Fewer than half of state school teachers encourage Oxbridge applications
In reality, 57% of students admitted to Oxbridge are from state schools, the Sutton Trust said.
Source : The guardian
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