Just a few interesting things I’ve learned yesterday
Geopolitical take-away and executive summary of the week:
because, remember, “correlation is not causation”!
Some problems are merely First World Problems. Other problems are at another level.
(just a comment I wrote on Facebook, answering someone complaining about the “cultural appropriation” of Halloween)
Scientists hope test-tube embryos can save near-extinct white rhino. Is it right? Is it a smart?
Here is a great passage about what real innovation should look like, or more exactly: what we should call, search for and reward, as real innovation, instead of the next gadget.
… I’m pretty sure it would also have to deal with, among many others, these three consequences.
- (this is important, please read carefully and share around this TRUE story I just heard from a friend of mine) Yesterday morning a (probably) north-american traveler made a complete, utterly ridiculous ass of himself in the Fiumicino airport, interrupting service and thus harassing everybody else around who (who would have imagined it) couldn’t risk to lose their plane for a kid’s tantrum. Why? Simply because he went to one of the bars in the airport, asked “a LATTE” and got just what he had asked for: one glass full of MILK straight out of the fridge and nothing else.
- John Tolkien started to write the Silmarillion one hundred (one HUNDRED!) years ago and continued to work on it until he died, 41 years ago. Forty years later, an Illustration and Graphic Design student worked all by himself, for about one year, to produce a wonderful deluxe, hand-illuminated edition of the Silmarillion. But he can’t publish it. Because other people, who are NOT those who wrote those texts, haven’t given permission (synthesis from the interview):