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Thomas L. Friedman: Out of Africa|The New York Times

Wed 20/04/2016 Piotr Uncategorized

A farming village too parched to sustain crops is also losing its men, who leave in search of work to support their families.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/13/opinion/out-of-africa.html

Source: Out of Africa, Part II – The New York Times

Forthcoming education announcement by Apple, expected to cover etextbooks.

Wed 18/01/2012

Jason D. O’Grady on ZD Net: Publishers to use digital textbooks to kill resale market discusses the forthcoming education announcement by Apple, expected to cover etextbooks. My take: 1. Self-publishing is taking off, whether on paper or in ebook [...]

Want to Make a Lie Seem True? Say It Again. And Again. And Again | WIRED

Wed 01/11/2017

Source: Want to Make a Lie Seem True? Say It Again. And Again. And Again | WIRED

Can you remember the name of the first spreadsheet? Browser?

Wed 25/01/2012

Talking to a friend recently during a walk in the mountains, none of us could remember the name of the first spreadsheet – sic transit gloria mundi.

Poland’s New Majoritarians

Tue 07/06/2016

Long read, but a good backgrounder on what’s going on in Poland: Having seized formal political power with both hands, Kaczynski took the Party’s unprecedented electoral success as unquestionable justification to vehemently oppose any challenge [...]

The Hijab Is Now An Official Part Of The Scottish Police Uniform | Co.Exist | ideas + impact

Thu 01/09/2016

What better way to encourage bigotry, contrary to the writer of the story. We are allowing bigots to push Scotland and the rest of Europe from Enlightenment back to the VIIIth century. As to people [...]

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Thomas L. Friedman: Out of Africa|The New York Times