The New York Times has a fascinating look at an angle of the immigration story that often goes unnoticed: international migration patterns. The piece is timely, both because of renewed interest in the immigration debate in the U.S., and because you might expect the world’s economic turmoil to slow down the movement of people around the globe. Not exactly….
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The Times Takes a Timely Look at Migration
Given much of the media’s determination to see politics primarily as a stage upon which the president struts and frets, it’s no surprise that, in the wake of Barack Obama’s press conference on the oil spill Thursday, there’s a bunch of mostly overwrought writing today on what it all means for his administration. Andrew Sullivan has found what’s…
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Hacky Punditry at the WSJ
If you have a hankering for a swim in the sea, but all of the dangerous creatures in the ocean have you scared, why not just install a swimming pool in the middle of the ocean? “Mesh covered holes allow the Magic Swim to fill with water once it’s deployed, but also keep unwanted visitors out, and a semi-rigid floating platform in the center of the pool allows you to stand once it’s completely filled with water,” said OhGizmo . The Magic Swim inflatable pool can be setup with an air compressor in only five minutes
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Swimming Pool in the Middle of the Ocean
Freshly Picked Cucumbers for Pickling Farm to Fork Cooking Vacation is has arrived! CSR has been awaiting the unveiling of this wonderful class for over 6 months. If you have already taken Basic Cooking techniques and are yearning for more hands-on classes at CSR that incorporate seasonal cooking and pastoral traditions , the Farm to Fork Cooking Vacation for you.
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Ripen Your Love of Colorado Cuisine
On April 22, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig sank into the Gulf of Mexico, spewing hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil a day into the water. Here’s a visual timeline of the spill’s effects
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The BP Oil Disaster Timeline in Pictures
Most of us assume deaf people can’t register sound, let alone enjoy Rachmaninoff. Wrong.
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How a Collar Could Help Deaf People "Hear" Music
Japan just revealed some of its plans for space exploration, including the amazing hope of landing a robot explorer on the moon by 2015 and having an entire base of robots by 2020.
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Japan vs. NASA in the Next Space Race: Lunar Robonauts
Ticked off by Facebook’s hosting of a page that had a caricature of the Prophet Mohammed, a group of tech professionals in Lahore have created a rival social net for Muslims, just a week after the social networking site was blocked by the Pakistani authorities. It’s called MillatFacebook , and it’s founders are fervently anti-Facebook
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MillatFacebook, Pakistan’s Answer to Facebook, Goes After Facebook
Last week we didn’t have any terribly exciting updates about Stacey’s coaching progress — just work being done on her end to try to push the platform building. I also mentioned that I recommended Stacey start pitching some potential clients directly in the meantime until her platform does most of the work for her
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Weekly Coaching Update – Stacey Abler – May 28, 2010
Saudi Gazette : Two years ago, Abo Dayah’s car broke down on his way from Jizan, where he was studying, to Riyadh, where his family lives.
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Disability Doesn’t Hold Back Saudi Inventor
Lots of people walk through the doors of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism every day. Just this past month, some of them have included Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal reporter Ian Johnson; Mark Halperin and John Heileman, co-authors of the best-selling non-fiction book Game Change; Steven Berlin Johnson, co-creator of the hyperlocal site Outside.In; and John Ciampa, a thirty-seven-year-old…
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The Man on the Street
Folks who’ve been paying attention to the Republican Senate primary in California this year might have noticed something unusual: in a “nationalized” election cycle, a fair bit of the debate in a federal election has been devoted to state issues, including the Golden State’s legendarily troubled budget situation. Much of that debate has been driven by Carly Fiorina, the former…
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California Roundup
Ah, the idiom. If you’re not up to date on your English class vocabulary, the idiom is the phrase that makes no literal sense but we use all the time anyway. So let’s catch up! No – that doesn’t mean we should run like the wind to join the rest of the group – it means we should talk
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Let’s Catch Up on Idioms! Or What the Hell Are Those Crazy Americans Saying?
A lucrative patent or a popular copyright can provide a creator’s heirs with solid streams of revenue for decades. Some great artists and inventors decided that they’d rather give the rights to their best creations to charity, though.
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Copyrights Donated To Charity
By Matthew Holt As we get closer to Health 2.0 Goes to Washington on June 7 (Monday) we’ll be ramping up coverage of all kinds of things, and one is a big chance for you all to get to know…
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Regina Holiday, here today & on the Health 2.0 Show Tuesday
Rose water (also spelled Rosewater) can be used in cooking as well as a rich beauty aid. Try some as a facial toner or astringent, in your bath water or as a facial splash (refresher). Notes on Preparation : * Rose petals must be freshly picked and have no pesticides or chemicals used on them.
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How To Make Rose Water – 4 Recipes
Go to www.myworkathomemoney.com and learn how to start an online business working from home. All it takes is a one page website and the right process to build long term income
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How to Start an Online Business! Internet Marketing Process!
With Obama’s promise at yesterday’s press conference that the White House would imminently (“When I say ‘shortly,’ I mean shortly. I don’t mean weeks or months”) offer an accounting of its communications with Congressman Joe Sestak before he announced his challenge to party-switching incumbent Arlen Specter—the administration’s favored candidate—in Pennsylvania’s Democratic Senate primary, we should have seen this coming: if…
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Taking out the Sestak Trash
The Chippewa Herald : Katia was looking for a Down syndrome awareness idea — something she could display to show she is the proud and loving mother of a Down syndrome child.
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Footprint Makes An Imprint On Down Syndrome Awareness
When Lee Palleschi was a boy, his dad made wine in the basement. He loved to watch the stomping of the grapes and the sweet smell of the fermenting grapes . His father explained the entire winemaking process to him,but being a young boy, he was more interested in other things and didn’t grow up to be a great winemaker.
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Machinist Turned (Legal) Moonshiner