Category: Society

The Heady Thrill of Having Nothing to Do
Is constant stimulation hurting our creativity—and the economy?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903454504576486412642177904.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

The article seems tongue-in-cheek, but I imagine there are several kernels of truth in it.  Having to make do with little or nothing …

Bringing solar light bulbs to the world
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/08/14/solar.light.bulbs/index.html?hpt=hp_bn7

The gist of the article is having huge faceless (and often brainless) organizations ramming unwanted solutions down the throat of poor/disadvantaged is the opposite of the way to get widespread adoption.  Find …

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/opinion/sunday/the-elusive-big-idea.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

I think this article is quite important to people who think.  Here is a sample that I hope will get you motivated to read it…

But it is especially true of big thinkers in the social sciences like the …

of the dramatically anti-science attitude in the US:

The Science of Injustice
Capital murder case highlights Texas courts’ resistance to physical evidence
http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2011-08-19/the-science-of-injustice/

This amuses me (in a very dark way) the most:

‘Delmore and the Montgomery County D.A.’s Office …

Are jobs obsolete?
http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/09/07/rushkoff.jobs.obsolete/index.html?hpt=hp_bn1

I was sort of thinking along these lines when I was working on my trillion person population paper (which has sort of faded away, like so many of my writing projects, largely because no one seems …