Words A letter and a letter on a string Will hold forever humanity spellbound Words Possession of the beggar and the king Everybody, everyday You and I, we all can say Words Regarded as a complicated tool Created by man, implicated by mankind Words Obsession of the genius and the fool Everybody, everyday, Everywhere and …
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Sex, drugs, rock and roll, while we play with nuclear weapons.
It’s not that people should be restricted from making lifestyle choices, but there’s a time and a place for everything. And boozing in the nuclear silo is not one of them. Sadly, the story is not even that funny. Senior employees responsible for nuclear weapons were found to be dealing drugs, gambling and cheating on …
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It’s easy to ignore what you put in your mouth.
The Ecologist Guide to Food, written by Andrew Wadsley, is to be published in mid-February. I reckon I know about what I put in my mouth. After all I grow a lot of it in the garden. But I happened to click over to the book promotion page and was reminded how easy it is …
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US college degrees cost more than a house.
This YouTube video of Marty Nemko debunking myths of big incomes that come from going to college, landed in an in-tray almost unnoticed. It’s from 2011, and is still valid. The data is unattractive. The alternatives to college that he advocates, like community college, part-time, apprenticeship and work to learn, make better sense for more …
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Anonimity on the internet.
It’s not that you want to be a spy, it’s not that you want to hide under a rock, it’s just that you feel threatened by the invasiveness of data tracking by Big Co (eg Google, Microsoft, Facebook etc) and Big Brother (the government and banks know more about you than you know about yourself). …
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Winning without trying.
Sun Tzu’s philosophy was to avoid conflict if possible. He recognised the waste of resources and the cost of the risk that aggression creates. Many modern managers think that he was all about fighting, but his philosophy was much ore about fighting without fighting, as Bruce Lee said, and if you have to fight, do …
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Don’t Just Sit There!
Do you spend a lot of time at a desk or behind a computer? Check out this excellent pdf poster from The Washington Post, and it’ll help you think about some uncomfortable habits. The health hazards of sitting
85 richest people as wealthy as poorest half of the world
That’s a shocking fact. The timing of that headline is appropriate as the rich gather to enjoy the luxuries that Davos, in the Swiss Alps, has to offer the World Economic Forum. Anyone reading this is unlikely to be one of those 85 people, but you are definitely in the top 10%. And everyone at …
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The work climate, like the weather, is changing .
The world is changing. Not just volatile weather – snow in Florida, tempest in Ireland – but in the socio-economic dynamic that has borne humanity to this position in civilisation. We are running out of jobs. Technology is taking over all employment, except the lowest paid, menial tasks and the highest paid, bespoke services. Even …
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We are still not prepared to pay for our planet.
In the past decade there has certainly been a huge increase in awareness and care about sustaining nature in the face of overconsumption by humanity. Now, most people have heard the terms “sustainable”, “organic”, “eco”, “green” and associate positive initiatives with these terms. Sadly we also associate a cost with these terms, a cost we …
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