83-Year-Old Woman Learns to Read
I found this news story very inspiring. An 83-year-old woman learns, for the first time in her life, to read.
If an 83-year-old who has been illiterate for her entire life can accomplish that, what’s stopping us from facing our goals and challenging ourselves?… Continue reading...
Filed under Current Events | Comments (2)Cost of “War on Terror” Exceeds that of Vietnam
The Globe and Mail has just reported that the cost of America’s “War on Terror” has exceeded that of Vietnam, or any other conflict except Second World War.
The cost of war
Combined, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are the second costliest camaign in U.S. history, surpassed now only by the Second World War.
Filed under Current Events | Comments (3)The Queen is 231 Years Old - According to Bush
After fluffing his lines in a speech (saying that the Queen visited in 1776 instead of 1976) at a welcoming ceremony, Bush joked that the Queen had given him “a look that only a mother could give a child”… Continue reading...
Filed under Current Events | Comment (0)Globalization Statistics - Slide Show
Did you know… that:
- The 25% of the population in China with the highest IQs is greater than the total population of North America.
- China will soon become the number one English-speaking country in the world.
- In 2002 Nintendo invested more than $140 million in research and development. The U.S. Federal Government spent less than… Continue reading...
Filed under Current Events | Comment (0)Internet Gaming Addiction in China - Solution? Army Treatment
If all else fails, hit the boot camp! 
Could bloggers end up getting addicted to blogging?… Continue reading...
Filed under Current Events | Comments (2)You Call the United States a Democracy?
George W. Bush has yet again defied the will of the American people. The Senate last week voted 51 to 46 in favour of pulling American forces out of Iraq by March 2008. And guess what happened? Bush vetoed it. That’s right, he vetoed it.
If the American people chose the Democrats and gave… Continue reading...
Filed under Current Events | Comments (2)Dell to use Ubuntu on Linux PCs - The Free Operating System of Tomorrow (Tomorrow is now!)
Definition of Linux in a Nutshell:
“Linux is an open source operating system for computers. The operating system of a computer is the basic instructions that tell the electronic parts of the computer what to do and how to work. “Open source” means that everyone can see how it works and change it if… Continue reading...
Filed under Current Events | Comments (2)Sick of Airport Security? Travel Nude!
Air travellers everywhere may soon be able to choose between the traditional pat-down and a new X-ray machine that leaves little to the imagination.
The Globe and Mail reports on a new technology that allows airport security to literally “see” through passengers without having to do a traditional… Continue reading...
Filed under Current Events | Comments (2)The Lies that Led to War
Since the US-led invasion four years ago, the fifth estate has covered Iraq and the war on terror from virtually every angle–the military, media, intelligence, politics–revealing aspects of the story that you didn’t find anywhere else. Now, as the White House warns about the latest… Continue reading...
Filed under Current Events | Comments (2)Chinese Vs. Western Mathematics - Something wrong with the system?
I was reading a BBC Article this morning, which showed the drastic differences between the Chinese and British (Western) education systems through the level of the math questions.
Clearly, the Chinese math question is a lot more difficult than the British.
Is this a good thing though? Questions arise as to whether academics is everything… Continue reading...
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