Seven Revolutions

A great article from 1994 that still has good points for discussion 20 years later.

Bad things happen when terrorists take control of your drones and then your nuclear subs!

I thought this was quite interesting...

This page shows an image of the development of the US over the last 170 years.

The World as 100 People. Good attempt at global village activity infographic

Good discussion of quantum computing, microsoft, dwave, etc.

GOVERNMENT officials, aid workers and activists from dozens of countries converged on London this week to discuss ways to solve a horrible problem: the tendency of combatants in war and civil strife to commit sexual atrocities.

SOUTH AFRICA may no longer have the chunkiest economy in Africa, now that Nigeria's has been revalued upwards, but it still has the fattest people. This is evidence, to many South Africans, of the good life: fast food, a fast car, an urban lifestyle.

MORE than 2,000 years ago "Huangdi Neijing", a classic Chinese medical text, identified obesity as a disease caused by eating too much "fatty meats and polished grains". Until a generation ago such a diet was an extravagance beyond imagination for all but the elite. But the Chinese waistline has since expanded, and at an alarming rate.

THE propaganda message, scrawled in white paint on the side of a wood-frame house, could hardly be more blunt: "Cure stupidity, cure poverty". The cure for both, in one of China's poorest counties, seems to be a daily nutritional supplement for children.