I found this video that explains how the japanese game of Ken Ken is played. Will Shortz, the man behind the NYTimes puzzles. Warning: The game is addictive!
Its impossible to sing & play bass [humor]
India’s Silicon Valley Garbage Crisis
Sarita Rai describes how the garbage crisis is closing the schism between the gated communities (a favorite for expats) & everyone else.
Teach yourself?
An ambitious experiment by the One Laptop Per Child organisation in two remote villages in Ethiopia is trying to see if see if illiterate kids with no previous exposure to written words can learn how to read all by themselves, by experimenting with the tablet and its preloaded alphabet-training games, e-books, movies, cartoons, paintings, and other programs ,
The Frankenstorm Monster?
Is climate change for real? Are the random weather patterns we’re witnessing lately just that? Or does the science behind it stack up? An opinion by Adam Frank on NPR. or is there room for doubt? asTania Lombrozo wonders?
Religion as a mother [video]
Why do so many people picture God as a man? asks the narrator in the animated video on Open University’s newest series, 60-second adventures in religion. Also watch Religion as Social Control, Religion as ritual, and religion as virus
Social Devaluation [Essay]
Dylan Grice, an analyst from Societe Generale, in his letter titled “You are debasing more than our currency”, asks, “do our money-printing central banks and their cheerleaders understand the full consequences of the monetary debasement they continue to engineer?”
Changing Education Paradigms
Sir Ken Robinson “Changing Education Paradigms” animated.
A celebrity profile [article]
I hate celebrity profiles. Heck, I hate celebrities. And when this 1966 profile by Gay Talese, called Frank Sinatra has a cold, turned up in my recommended read list, I scoffed, casually clicked on the link, & read -no, raced – through the whole article. Written like a Sicilian novel! Wonderful read for a weekend.
Split of a second [video]
Two videos of the Norwegian Wingsuit World Champion, Espen Fadnes. The first is called “sense of flying, an incredible jump off a mountain & flying down at 250kmph. He speaks about visualizing the flight before he actually does the jump. The second video is called “Split of a second“.