Quote of the week
“I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining,
but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and a
happier man than I otherwise should have been if I had not attempted it;”The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
1.Facebook and Twitter fuel iPhone and Blackberry addiction, says Ofcom
“Of the new generation of smartphone users, 60% of teenagers classed themselves as “highly addicted” to their device, compared to 37% of adults.
Mobile, UK, Culture
Source :The Guardian
2. Israel’s secular middle class strikes back
“Israel’s school system is in the pits with class sizes of about 40; many Israeli women cannot afford going to work because childcare is very expensive; the public transport is that of a third-world country.”
Israel, Policy, Culture, Protest
Source : The Guardian
3. America’s First Great Global Warming Debate
“As a gentleman farmer in Virginia, Jefferson had long been obsessed with the weather; in fact, on July 1, 1776, just as he was finishing his work on the Declaration of Independence, he began keeping a temperature diary. Jefferson would take two readings a day for the next 50 years. He would also crunch the numbers every which way”
Environment, USA, Global, Culture, History
Source :Smithsonian Magazine
4. The Illusion of the Free Internet
“Since life expectancy in Nigeria is less than 50 years it is a fair assumption most people in Ogoniland have lived with chronic oil pollution throughout their lives,” the report says.”
Environment, USA, Global, Culture, History
Source : Slow Media.net
5. Why India Can’t Feed Her People
“As much as 40 per cent of all the fruits, vegetables and food grains grown in India never make it to the market. The country wastes more grain each year than Australia produces, and more fruits and vegetables than the U.K. consumes.”
India, Culture, Food, Policy
Source : The Star
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– Kaushik
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