Karelis argues that being poor is defined by having to deal with a multitude of problems: One doesn’t have enough money to pay rent or car insurance or credit card bills or day care or sometimes even food. Even if one works hard enough to pay off half of those costs, some fairly imposing ones [...]
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Read more →“Microfinance started in the 1970s with a focus on using this breakthrough to help end poverty,” said Sam Daley-Harris, director of the Microcredit Summit Campaign, a nonprofit endeavor that promotes microfinance for families earning less than $1 a day. “Now it is in great danger of being how well the investors and the microfinance institutions [...]
Read more →Among Collins’s most controversial beliefs is that of “theistic evolution”, which claims natural selection is the tool that God chose to create man. In his version of the theory, he argues that man will not evolve further. “I see God’s hand at work through the mechanism of evolution. If God chose to create human beings [...]
Read more →To be sure, there is no official diagnosis of death by blogging, and the premature demise of two people obviously does not qualify as an epidemic. There is also no certainty that the stress of the work contributed to their deaths. But friends and family of the deceased, and fellow information workers, say those deaths [...]
Read more →It’s thought of as a sexual stereotype: boys tend to play with toy cars and diggers, while girls like dolls. But male monkeys, suggests research, are no different. This could mean that males, whether human or monkey, have a biological predisposition to certain toys, says Kim Wallen, a psychologist at Yerkes National Primate Research Center [...]
Read more →A team of researchers led by brain scientist John Yeomans at the University of Toronto in Canada used special microphones to eavesdrop on mice during sex. When they let a male mouse into a female’s cage, he approached her with a series of whistle calls and then, during intercourse, sang more complex chirp songs until [...]
Read more →http://www.webcomicsnation.com/poyorick/botg/series.php?view=archive&chapter=10960 A cereal comic in which all the brand characters from US breakfast cereals (tony the tiger, etc.) live together in a wonderland, menaced by Count Chocula. It’s kind of astonishingly well done. Two books online, more coming, total labor of love.
Read more →Just… watch this. Tell me if you didn’t just see the future flash before your eyes. Balls. Of. Steel. They keep this stuff up, and they could get the four or five percent it would take to start fixing shit on a major scale.
Read more →http://www.scribd.com/doc/2425806/The-Art-of-Designing-Markets Long write up of that kidney market which gets more matches between donors and patients than can be got without performing a global optimization. Very good stuff.
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