Archives for the 'Social Justice' Category
One Laptop per Child (OLPC)
Published on 23 Dec 2007 at 1:50 pm.
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Filed under Entrepreneurship, Internet, Inventions, Social Justice, Solutions, Technology.
The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) association aims to provide one laptop to every school-age child in the developing countries of the world with the goal of improving education around the world. The program was developed by Nicholas Negroponte who was co-founder and director of the MIT Media Laboratory. His goal was to develop a $100 […]
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Nature Abhors a Gradient
Published on 27 Nov 2007 at 3:54 am.
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Filed under Biology, Climate, Energy, Evolution, Philosophy, Physics, Social Justice.
I recall back to my first days in physics class where I read the quotation “Nature abhors a vacuum”. The phrase was accompanied by an image of two teams of horses trying to pull two hollow hemispheres apart after the air was pumped out from inside.
These were called Magdeburg hemispheres and the experiment was performed by […]
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Origin of the Word Idiot
Published on 22 Nov 2007 at 11:55 am.
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Filed under Blather, General, Social Justice.
I learned today that the word idiot originates from the Greek word idiwtes (idiotes), which refers to a person disinterested in participating in democracy and public life. These people were viewed as selfish, contemptable and stupid as they were more concerned with their daily personal affairs than they were of the good of the society. Later in […]
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Diamond Road
Published on 7 Oct 2007 at 1:59 am.
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Filed under Entrepreneurship, Philosophy, Social Justice.
I am watching the Discovery Channel and am seeing the documentary titled Diamond Road for the fourth or fifth time. The diamond entrepreneur Martin Rapaport impresses me every time. He has been inspired to create a fair trade system for diamonds from war-torn Sierra Leone. In one of his talks, he points out that if […]
