Wikipedia’s Political Slant Lessens
Eleven years old, Wikipedia is growing less lefty, more neutral, according to a new survey of political catch-phrases on the site.
Social Work: How Dangerous Is It To Deliver Humanitarian Aid?
Yesterday in Geneva, the World Food Program, which is the UN’s food aid operation, admitted that its supply…
What A Healthy, Happy, Wailing Baby You Have!
Researchers at Philadelphia’s Temple University claim to have conclusively proven that tough love advocates are right, and the…
UN: Forget Foreign Aid, Nepal Needs a Good Plumber
Handwashing stand, Nepal image: endtheneglect.org Via IRIN: The United Nations reports that hundred of millions of dollars invested…
Fiscal Cliff: Congressional Research Study Had This All Figured Out Weeks Ago
Amid holiday clamor over the politics of the so-called “fiscal cliff,” Thomas L. Hungerford must be off somewhere…
Apocalypses, Various
Paul Desmond on the apocalypse, which in his case was getting dumped for a wealthier man: “This is…
Political Stereotyping (cont.): The Case of The Gun Shop That Stopped Selling Machine Guns
More than 150,000 have viewed the above video since 2010. Had you? Our own Tom Jacobs recently reported…
Economics: (Groucho) Marx on Fiscal Cliffs
Via Imprint’s J. J. Sedelmaier: With the fiscal cliff negotiations theatrical and occasionally farcical, it comes as some…
Study: Yep, Texting While Crossing the Street Is Not Great
Via the Seattle Times: A study of more than 1,100 Seattle pedestrians in the optimistically titled journal Injury…
Why HSBC Failed to Notice (Allegedly) That It Was Laundering Money for Drug Gangs
A few hours ago, the wires broke that Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), one of the world’s…