Month February 2009
Windshield wiper socks
Bill Gates: How I’m trying to change the world now
Bill Gates recently spoke of his philanthropic work at TED. The video below includes the widely-covered release of mosquitoes into the conference room. In his comments, Gates points out that market forces are not naturally drawn towards solving the problems…
Globalization 3.0
Thomas Friedman presents a lecture at MIT on The World is Flat 3.0: .His thesis is that the world economy has progressed through three stages of globalization. The first was marked by integration at a country level; the second at…
An old friend
I was reading an entry on Paul Moore’s site: the Perfect Skillet. It caused me to reflect on my favourite frying pan. It is pure and 100% cast iron, with no enamel glaze or coverings what so ever. The iron…