The latest figures from the UN World Food Programme estimate that more than 1 billion people go hungry. (link) This is a world of plenty. This is unacceptable.
Dressed and ready for school?
Saudi Arabia’s new university to let women unveil and study alongside men. Does the rest of society concur?
Filed under Gender
Punishing views
An open opponent to abortion was shot and killed in Michigan, possibly because he was openly protesting in front of school-going children. (news) As much as the First Amendment protects freedom of speech in the US, is it acceptable to target school-going children and subject them to a social battle they are too young to understand and participate in? By that same logic, is it acceptable to take the law into your ow hands and punish people for their views, and the means by which they express these views?
Filed under Crime and Punishment, Current Affairs
Eight years on
Filed under Current Affairs
The weight of the word
We don’t always think before we speak, or we sometimes think too hard about the best word to use. While it is mostly instinctive, it is instinct that develops only with extensive reading. This is the problem some students have with words. The subtle connotations carried in one word and absent in another may be lost to those who don’t know better. Here’s someone’s gripe about subtleties and connotations.
Filed under Arts and culture
Graffiti or Art?
25 years ago, graffiti represented a lawless NY. Today, some recognise graffiti as an art-form. (source)
What’s interesting isn’t the article per se, but the debate that followed.
Filed under Arts and culture
Wikipedia and credibility
Wikipedia has set the criteria for “experienced editor” status relatively low (article here)
Isn’t that self-defeating? What is the purpose of Wikipedia?
