Current Affairs

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Asians and Americans see different things in the same picture.  When shown a picture of fish swimming, Japanese subjects described the stream, the rocks and then the fish.  Americans described the fish first.  Americans looked at the fish first and spent more time looking at them.  Japanese looked at the whole scene and then the

The Economist.com is my favorite business/news/political magazine.  One of the reasons I like it is because it’s not afraid to have an opinion and take a stance.  Unlike most newspapers that claim to be neutral and aren’t, the Economist very openly takes a side.  They also report about topics of real interest to me and

Women continue to leave the technology fields and it’s not just in the US.  According to this article, Women ‘undervalued’ in science, in The Register, it exists in the UK as well: In June this year, the Scientific Women’s Academic Network launched a six-point charter, aimed at changing the academic culture in the UK in

LifeStraw is an entire purification system in what looks like a fat drinking straw.  It was designed by a Danish group to be produced for under $2 a straw in order to be marketable for the developing world where water borne diseases still kill thousands. LifeStraw purifies water instantly for under $2 a year –

Why are conversations about sex so hard to have?   (That’s a rhetorical question, I think.) This article by a doctor about the conversations he has with his adolescent patients is funny, but it just illustrates how hard these conversations are to have.  It’s Time for the Truth, When Body Clock Strikes 13 – New York

What struck me most initially was that this women was speaking up even though she hasn’t given up.  She is still married to the man who beat her 60 times in eight years and while she thinks the beatings are wrong, she still wants to be married to him.  Staying in a situation while publically

Steve Jobs gave the commencement speech at Stanford this year and while his advise is hard to follow, it is inspirational.    He says: And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. He says every morning you should ask

I don’t know why, but most of my female friends leave their high tech jobs in their 30s.  Most of them do not leave to spend more time with their children, as the predominate urban legend goes.  Why do they leave?  I don’t think women are more fed up then men, I think women are

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about why we work (other than the obvious – making money) and how you can figure out what you would be happiest doing.  Assuming you have to work because you aren’t independently wealthy, what should you do?  What would make you happiest?  What job would make you want to