Current Events & Opinion
Comment and opinion on current events and what’s hapening in our great big world. Video is of course,one of the best ways to learn and one of the best ways to stay up-to-date with current events and we will try to include video whenever possible.
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Economic Growth & The Wealth of Nations
Joined Up thinking … #ows #occupywallstreet – Get the Money Out Of Politics. Education is a prize worth fighting for and increasing opportunities for expanding educational sources come from economic growth. So, economic growth is not bad, increasing the wealth of a nation is not bad. focusing that wealth in the hands of a few who fail miserably to spread that wealth around is very bad. Economic growth is a desirable outcome because it creates wealth and improves the health of nations. Capitalism is good but corporate greed is...
read moreWarm Climate? Cold Climate? Is it all just hot air?
We live in the sun’s atmosphere and our climate changes constantly over decades, centuries and millenia. How active our sun is controls how warm or cold our planet is, it’s that simple. But for some reason we always seem to want to over-complicate what is just a natural process and perpetuate the belief that we can change the natural order of life the universe and everything. 150 Years of Climate Change as Reported by the New York Times. Scan the following New York Times article extracts, which cover the years 1855 to 1980, and...
read moreDr Deborah Rhodes on Medical Breast Imaging
Education and free access to a store of knowledge is one of the wonders of the modern age, but if you don’t know where to look or what to look for then how do you educate yourself? Trusting that the people you depend on for healthcare will educate themselves in order to provide you with the best, the most up-to-date and the most effective treatments available is what we do. We rely on the professionals to provide relevant solutions that will ensure we get the best possible chance of a cure, a full recovery or to prevent illness and...
read moreWhere Are The Worlds Media?
You live in a bubble. A bubble of your own making that is filled with the interactions you have each and every day. You expand your bubble through exposure to media whether you use printed newspapers, blogs, RSS readers, Google news, the tabloid press or the national news outlets on tv and radio. So, what happens when those media outlets decide not to show you the news. How small is your bubble when the worlds media ignores what’s happening in the world? In the West and primarily in the UK and USA we pride ourselves on the idea of a...
read moreAdjustable Glasses
Some ideas are just too good not to discover. If you wear glasses or have worn glasses for any length of time then you have certainly spent a whole load of cash on new pairs every two years or so. You may even be tired of renewing your glasses and all the hoopla that involves. If you live in the developed world you can probably afford new glasses every other year and you probably pay way more than you need to, just for fashions sake. But; what if you’re half blind, have no access to an optician and no money to buy glasses even if you...
read moreTrapped in Your Online Filter Bubble
Eli Pariser of the progressive organization MoveOn says the Internet is hiding things from us, and we don’t even know it. In this TED Talk he calls out Facebook, Google. and other corporations who are transforming the Internet to suit their corporate interests. Does this strike a chord? Eli does seem to hit the nail on the head with this one. Particularly in respect to Facebook and possibly even more so with Google’s introduction of Google Plus and the +1 button. Mike Elgan Contributing Editor of The CMO Site wrote: Today’s...
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