genetrix

Until Thursday you could happily walk and play in the seeds. Kids lay on their backs to make sunflower seed angels, businessmen shrugged off their patent-leather shoes and strolled back and forth in their suits, young couples picnicked. It was delightful.
Since Thursday it is a health hazard.

Economic crisis destabilises jobs and incomes but also undermines the tax base. Governments lack the means to sustain entire nations on their own. Trying to explain declining benefits and rising taxes to the Internet generation is tetchy. They find such long-term complexity boring and politicians are as adrift as the Pope, explaining ancient concepts in a new world.

Google Instant has turned 26 ordinary letters into the most valuable and sought-after advertising real-estate on the planet. Who are the winners?

A thorough refutation that doctorates have no value ;)

The Huffingonton Post makes an empassioned plea as to why we should care about the floods in Pakistan, but it is plain we don't. It isn't because they're Muslims. In 2007 Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, was also the beneficiary of an astonishing amount of charity after the tsunami. What gives?