Fifteen families from around the world posed among a week’s worth of their food, with favorite dishes and comparative cost noted in US dollars.
Daily Archives: 19 Sep 07
Inglehart-Welzel Cultural Map of the World
“This map reflects the fact that a large number of basic values are closely correlated; they can be depicted in just major two dimensions of cross-cultural variation…”. Interestingly, the axes are (a) traditional vs. secular-rational; and (b) survival values vs. self-expression values:
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Salt water as fuel?
“…the most remarkable [discovery] in water science in 100 years…”: Applying RF to a beaker full of salt water causes it to release hydrogen continuously, which once ignited will burn with a steady flame, according to a serendipitous discovery of an amateur inventor. The possibilities are endless, if this becomes viable outside the lab.
25 Ways to Manage Your Online Identity
“This list: comprises 25+ tools to manage your reputation, officially sign documents, aggregate your social network IDs and more…”
Why Bush won’t attack Iran
… and why Cheney might: “The left — and much of the old-school, realist right — fears that Bush means to bomb Iran sometime between now and next spring. Both would like to rally public opinion against the strike before it happens. The neoconservative right, meanwhile, is asserting that we will bomb Iran but that we need to get to it posthaste.
But both sides are advancing scenarios that are politically useful to them, and both sides are wrong. Despite holding out a military option, ratcheting up tensions with Iran about meddling in Iraq and Afghanistan, and deploying carrier strike-force groups in the Persian Gulf, the president is not planning to bomb Iran. But there are several not-unrelated scenarios under which it might happen, if the neocon wing of the party, led by Vice President Cheney, succeeds in reasserting itself, or if there is some kind of “accidental,” perhaps contrived, confrontation.” (Salon)
