SVHS HWC '12-'13

In Kampala, Uganda, women are fighting against their known name of the "rape capital of the world", and they are driving to be entrepreneurs. Women are creating their own businesses and brands and are having great success.

This article discusses how Africa's climate change, growing energy demands, poverty, international politics and social justice are may be able to be saved by biofuels.  

Hyenas help show humans evolution. Hyenas show traits that humans show about reproduction and food consumption.

In the Sub-Saharan Africa farmers are learning how to cope with the extreme climate conditions. They are learning how to farm with drought and to keep their crops alive and healthy. It shows the human resilience to climate conditions and how we as humans adapt to our environment.

This article talks about how even though it's perceived that AIDS is in decline in Uganda, it's still on the rise. Almost a third of Uganda's population is plagued with the infection even though billions of dollars have been poured into fixing this problem. Rates have also raised from 6.4% in 2005 to 7.3% today. They are not only rising in urban settings, but also in rural areas. 

This article says that Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana is a prime candidate to be the next Pope.   The Catholic religion has been spreading widely through Africa and Asia.  Nowadays, there is a definite possibility of having a Pope from the the southern portion of the world.

There have been vicious ethnic clashes in Kenya. This is due to the current election stirring old feuds. Many people on opposite sides live as neighbors. 

In Rwanda many people are dying from thirst and cholera. A few years ago, American soldiers started to set up the first water filtration system in Goma. The filtration system will help to slow the growing numbers with cholera. 

This article relates to our "cartographic aggression" discussion.  China is redrawing maps to include disputed territories within its boundaries.

Interesting news story that presents evidence for the advent of soup prior to the Neolithic Revolution (10,000 y.a.).  This artifact seems to suggest that humans had developed means of cooking much earlier than previously thought.

In this lecture at MIT, Thomas Friedman, author of "The World is Flat," describes the forces that have brought about our globalized society.

Frontline episode examining the impact of digital technology on our lives.

Bizzarre (& scary "commercial) from North Korea implying that a major US city will be victimized by a rocket attack.

Dr. Thomas Pogge, Director of the Global Justice Program and Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University, presents a lecture that uses statistics to illustrate global poverty and argues that this systematic poverty is a violation of human rights.  (November 2012)

"Ashdown claims that we are living in a moment in history where power is changing as it never has before."  An option on station 4 of the globalization & development packet.

A very interesting interview with Andy Carvin, the NPR strategist who tweeted and re-tweeted stories about the Arab Spring.  He discusses issues of journalistic integrity, news in the age of social media, and shares a powerful story of an individual who used social media to create manuals for use by rebels in Libya.