A long time ago there was a fox whose sister was getting married. The fox wanted to help her sister plan the wedding party. The fox had no tongue so she couldn’t make the special sound used to help celebrate the wedding. She decided to ask around for someone to loan her a tongue for [...]
by Maxamed Xaashi Dhamac ‘Gaarriye’ I can’t understand you, curious self, nor grasp how you’re both life and death, grabbed land and peaceful settlement, grudging milker that makes me full, sun set at evening whilst casting noon’s shortest shadow: how can you be two who can’t marry yet share the same house? How can I [...]
MacArthur winner Sendhil Mullainathan uses the lens of behavioral economics to study a tricky set of social problems — those we know how to solve, but don’t. We know how to reduce child deaths due to diarrhea, how to prevent diabetes-related blindness and how to implement solar-cell technology … yet somehow, we don’t or can’t. [...]
Part 2 You don’t have to be crazy to live in Buenos Aires, but it helps! Hence a popular radio talk-show run by asylum inmates.
A girl in love asked her boyfriend. Girl: Tell me. Who do you love most in this world? Boy: You, of course! Girl: In your heart, what am I to you? Boy: The boy thought for a moment and looked intently in her eyes and said, “You are my rib. It was said that God [...]
Endings seem to lie in wait. Absorbed in our experience we forget that an ending might be approaching. Consequently, when the ending signals its arrival, we can feel ambushed. Perhaps there is an instinctive survival mechanism in us that distracts us from the inevitability of ending, thus enabling us to live in the present with [...]
Bill Gates hopes to solve some of the world’s biggest problems using a new kind of philanthropy. In a passionate and, yes, funny 18 minutes, he asks us to consider two big questions and how we might answer them.
Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst…British saying Love is like a war: Easy to begin Hard to end!…Unknown If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile…Indian Proverb Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head…Chines Proverb A smooth sea never never [...]
MyWorld Entry: Somewhere in Northern Tanzania In this entry, Ibrahim Matukuta shows us the click Hadza tribe from of Northern Tanzania, one of the last remaining tribes of true hunter-gatherers left on the planet.
MyWorld Entry: Rhythm of child for Istanbul In this entry from Turkey, Mehmet Haciosmanoğlu overlays the accomplished drumming of a young boy he encounters on the street with shots of life in Istanbul