By Bernard Pollack on July 1, 2010 in Africa, East Africa, Featured, Kenya, Madagascar, North America, Pacific Northwest, Photos, Seattle, Southern Africa, Uganda, USA, Washington
Look at "Thinking Big by Starting Small" in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer which was co-written with Stephanie Hanson, the Director of Policy and Research at the One Acre Fund.
Here is how it begins: "It's easy to feel overwhelmed...
VentureBeat's Matt Marshall announced the MobileBeat 2010 Startup Competition finalists today.Over 200 companies submitted applications and only twenty have been chosen, the favorites being Snaptu and Aava Mobile from an online poll.
The finalists will unveil...
Duck in and discover: Hidden gems might be tucked away in Melbourne's many alleys. Photo by Srdjan Nikolic, morgueFile
The process of leaving a place is an experience very different to when you arrive. Especially when...
By Taro Muso and Sylvia Rozwadowska
Spurred by a summer day in March, we headed to our local bike shop where we happened across an unusually sturdy, rapidly folding bicycle, the ‘Boston’ by Montague. Thinking such...
It really is a spectacular show! 2 hours of pure amazement. I am so in awe of the ability of the human body and the concentration, dedication and drive it would take to be able...
Phuh! It was a strange sound, a sudden burst, like a whale emptying its blowhole, following an equally unusual, almost bovine noise: long, deep and guttural, haunting too, like the distant rumble of thunder.
“A male moose,”...
Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet.
In Zambia, sorghum—a drought resistant cereal that thrives in the country— was considered a “poor man’s crop” in the past, often shunned by small-scale farmers for the more commercially...
Popular media and folk psychology would have us believe that men and women are radically different from one another. Modern thinkers often proclaim that men and women are very much alike – all human beings,...
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