The UK government's latest deluded idea: 'banning' underage sexting on social media: When the UK government is not busy looking for ways to invade internet users' privacy, it's looking for ways to restrict what they are able to do online -- particularly when it comes to things of a sexual nature.
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Lights for the Enlightened: An Engineering Trek in the Himalayas: How a band of techie volunteers electrified Lingshed monastery and school
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In a final betrayal of the Cadbury brand, Kraft has quietly abandoned its promise to stick with Fairtrade: When John Cadbury founded his legendary confectionary firm in 1824, he was selling just three products: tea, coffee and – perhaps more predictably – drinking chocolate. With the help of his...
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How Cubans Live as Long as Americans at a Tenth of the Cost
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Looking at the Bankbot Landscape: A few days ago, Keith Armstrong did a nice writeup about the proliferation of chatbots in money and banking.
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100 Stories: The Impact of Open Access Jean-Gabriel Bankier. Promita Chatterji.
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Good read. The most good you can do by Peter Singer. This is about effective altruism. If you are going to give away your money how can ensure you give it to the most effective resources? More than that if you've decided to give away money what is the best job that you can do? There are some extreme...
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Tough read but a refreshing reminder of the importance of the learner in the process of education. Freire criticises the 'banking model' of education where empty learners are simply filled with deposits by teachers. Instead he explores how learners and teachers can work (and be rewarded) together.
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For better recall, try a work out four hours after learning something: Working up a sweat may release molecules that help with memory banking.
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Condamine River on fire in CSG mining area: Dramatic footage shows huge flames erupting from methane gas bubbling to the surface of the Condamine River, a result of ongoing coal seam gas mining in the region, some locals say.
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John Kay - Central problem with banks is “too complex to fail” not “too big to fail”
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nuTonomy to Test World's First Fully Autonomous Taxi Service in Singapore This Year: MIT startup could be the first company in the world to deploy fully autonomous urban vehicles that you can ride in
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Just read the "Happy Life" story - saving abandoned children on the streets of Nairobi. This is about a children rescue centre in Nairobi started 14 years ago and has now expanded to caring directly for around 100 children across two sites. They have offered for adoption over 170 children. The city...
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Amazon bans cheap USB-C cables in wake of Google engineer’s crusade | ExtremeTech: Amazon has agreed to formally disallow the sale of cables that don't conform to the USB-C specification after one Google engineer found a number of faulty cables -- including cables that destroyed hardware. It's a small...
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Malawi's fearsome chief, terminator of child marriages: Chief Kachindamoto has broken up 850 child marriages in three years, and banned the sexual initiations of young girls.
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Graphene Wristband Senses Your Blood Sugar--and Treats It
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Junk food ads face online ban in UK - BBC News: Advertising junk food could soon be banned from children's content online, according to the UK's advertising watchdog.
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The New Middle East by Paul Danahar gives excellent insights and the background history to the situation in the Middle East following the Arab Spring. He covers Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon, Israel, Iraq, and Syria in depth.
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