This graphic from The Economist sums up what we all know but don’t like to face (as @RustyRockets just pointed out). So 0.7% of the people have 44% of the wealth, and 68.9% of the people have 2.9% of the wealth. That doesn’t sound fair, or like democracy, or Christian/Islamic/Bhuddist, or … anything to be …
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Category:7 Holonics and Life
Yellen about the benefits of education.
Fed Chair Janet Yellen said in a speech yesterday that “public education spending is often lower for students in lower-income households than for students in higher-income households.” The Fed’s unusual comment on education came in a speech, delivered at the Conference on Economic Opportunity & Inequality sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and …
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Being one, being part of it all, being happy.
Russell Brand talking a lot of sense.
Garlic – a wonder food.
Garlic! The French love it. The Koreans love it. We love it. Strong and crunchy raw, or soft and sweet when cooked. Or crushed into a paste with sea salt to be added to anything. Tasty? Yes! And also invaluable as a remedy for common ailments as its antiseptic properties can purge your body and …
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DTRTTRW in yoga pants: FouseyTube
More than 15 million people have watched Yousef Saleh Erakat’s most popular video – the Yoga Pants Prank. It’s funny and it works. Erakat highlights embarrassing aspects of modern culture, like men gawking at women (when they shouldn’t) and women flaunting their booty in public, which encourages men to be misogynistic and other women to flaunt …
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Poor in America: conditions influence behaviour too.
Try being poor. OK, that’s not going to happen. The closest some people come of us come is “slumming it”. Or maybe we eat at a roadside kiosk while backpacking during a year “off” before or after college. Actually not having resources, no cash, no car, no home, no job, no education, no family, no …
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In my lifetime, we’ve wiped out half earth’s wildlife
And more than doubled the weight of humans (not including all our stuff). Will they all be gone when my children are my age? The latest edition of the Living Planet Report is not for the faint-hearted. The Living Planet Index (LPI), which measures more than 10,000 representative populations of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and …
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Think! … before you do the ice bucket challenge, and a few other things
It’s true that I didn’t fancy the idea of getting a bucket of water over my head to avoid making a charitable donation. And it’s true that I could be more charitable. But, this video is a memorable way of delivering the message: Water is precious, look after it. People in Ireland (where there’s relatively …
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The end of fossil fuels.
The Rockerfeller Foundation plans to divest fossil fuel assets in its portfolio. The Fund will first focus on limiting its exposure to coal and tar sands, with a goal to reduce these investments to less than one percent of the total portfolio by the end of 2014. It is planning for further divestment as quickly …
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To save nature, just say NO, thank you.
The Economist offers analysis and a guide to curbing greenhouse gases, as the UN conference on climate change approaches. Here’s their summary table. Notice that the Montreal Protocol achieved the most by a wide margin. The next most effective policy has been China’s one-child policy. The effectiveness of both is supported by the simple discipline …
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