Friday Punch: Is China’s Green Dam Another Great Wall?  share 5 hours ago by Kenneth If Chinese authorities can have their way, all computers sold in the Chinese domestic market will come with Green Dam, a filtering software that prevents computer users from accessing what the government considers “unacceptable.” As far as I know, the filtering plug-in will not interfere with your A ... Kenneth Wong's Virtual Desktop - deskeng.com/virtual_desktop ·  8 references |
| Conditions will be healthier again! share 6 hours ago by Business Reporter About the cruel recession everyone is aware by now! The world is facing a render down internationally in terms of market position. This market render down, often referred to as recession, is creating hype in the minds of one and all. Meltdown in several nations has affected the economy of the whole ... Financial Freedom - Your ... - ownbu.com · Rank: 112,200 |
| The World Bank only speaks English - but the world doesn’t share 7 hours ago by meredith In an interesting review of the World Bank’s policy to conduct all business in English, Rebecca Harris, a service coordinator at the Bank Information Center, points out some major flaws. Community groups in Yemen, for example, petitioned for an Arabic translation (the national language) of the condi ... WLS Translations - Spanish ... - wlstranslations.com/blog |
| The Illusion of Relevance share 7 hours ago by JoeDuck I’m not a big fan of the human intellect. In fact I think one of the most obvious points in science – too rarely addressed – is how inadequately evolution has prepared us for the challenges of modern technological times. A simple example is the fact many of us eat too much, and die early from diseas ... Joe Duck - joeduck.com · Rank: 59,134 · 71 references |
| Professors and Politicians in Vilnius share 7 hours ago by Stephen Smoliar Apparently, it is one thing for a Yale University Professor of History to explore parallels between Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin and quite another for politicians to acknowledge that professor's work. The professor in question is Timothy Snyder. The work is the book Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitl ... The Rehearsal Studio - therehearsalstudio.blogspot.com · Rank: 83,201 · 27 references |
| Tweets Are Not Just For Birds Anymore – Explaining Mainstream Adoption of ... share 10 hours ago by Ninja “thinks tweets are for birds, not men…” I recently saw the above comment on the Facebook feed of a good friend of mine. Obviously he does not yet understand Twitter yet or simply has not chosen to use it. And that’s alright. There are many like him. The non-early adopters who don’t yet see the [...] DNC Worldwide - dncworldwide.com · 7 references |
| Clinical Trials Good News & Bad News: Pfizer, Stem Cells & Doubt - July 3, 2009 share 11 hours ago by Alex The Good News: The first clinical trial for healing an injured heart by using a subject’s own stem cells is underway. Pfizer proactively and voluntarily halted a trial after results showed it was to likely to be successful. The Bad News: The validity of clinical trials conducted China is under scrut ... AlexO'Meara.com - alexomeara.com |
| Rodger Kamenetz' "The Jew in the Lotus": Book Review share 11 hours ago by Fionnch Rereading this fifteen years after it was published, I found it poignant and thoughtful. In '94, I'd known about Judaism but not Buddhism; now studying the latter while building upon a lifelong interest in Tibet, I realize how Kamenetz deftly moves between his secular American Jewish perspective and ... Blogtrotter - fionnchu.blogspot.com · Rank: 104,911 · 9 references |
| Globalization and Genocide share 12 hours ago by Stephen Smoliar There are several dimensions to the "ignored reality" of the Holocaust examined by Timothy Snyder in his essay in the latest issue of The New York Review. Most important is his observation that "many if not more Jews were killed by bullets as by gas," stressing that, for example, the factory-like pr ... The Rehearsal Studio - therehearsalstudio.blogspot.com · Rank: 83,201 · 27 references |
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