A Star Wars flash mob in Paris
Author: neil
Odyssey Expedition
“We all dream about travelling the world. But some dreams are bigger than others.” Graham Hughes is trying to be the first person to visit every single country in the world, WITHOUT FLYING to get there. Read about his amazing story here!
Baby Elephant rescue
Members of the Amboseli Trust, an elephant welfare and conservation group, have attempted to rescue a baby elephant trapped in a water well in Kenya
Collectors Items
Newsweek will stop printing its iconic magazine at the end of this year. Keep your collectors item copies (no guarantees that it will make your retirement fund any stronger!)
Skepticism & Openness [Article]
Carl Sagan The Burden of Skepticism
How much is your spare time worth?
Have you given it any thought? Mr. Money Moustache weighs in with his.
Internet spying
Who do you turn to when your telco, who you pay a monthly fee to use its services, starts spying on your internet usage & selling that information to third parties, without your consent?
You don’t own what you bought?
As this lady found out, buying digital copies of books/ movies/ etc for your digital device doesn’t necessarily mean you will have access to it anytime you want, or that you “own” it either.
China & US Jobs
During the 2nd US Presidential Debate, Mitt Romney said that China’s currency currency manipulation and intellectual property theft has allowed it to become the largest manufacturer in the world, causing the loss of 500,000 American manufacturing jobs in the last four years. Anthony Tao defends China: Even now, when China’s per [capita] GDP is still nearly six times less than the US’s, China is just artificially keeping its currency down cause it really wants to stick it to Americans, right? Because there are just so many Americans who dream about working in an iPhone-assembling factory.
Destruction
The leading bird in a European project to develop a method to save a rare species of ibis was killed last weekend by illegal hunters in Italy. Goja, a northern bald ibis (Geronticus eremita), was on her way to wintering grounds in Tuscany when she was shot down, along with two other birds that she was leading.