October 20, 2007
Dan Gilbert, professor of psychology at Harvard and the author of the best-selling “Stumbling on Happinessâ€, kicked off the second day of presentations at Pop!Tech with an entertaining talk about why humans carefully heed some risks and almost completely disregard others. Using global warming as an example of a threat that fails to [...]
Ideas, Observations
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October 17, 2007
For the past few days the Russian Internet has been shaken by one of the first instances of bloggers collectively rebelling against a corporation, proactively using the blogosphere to cause a major disruption in its physical operations and forcing a potential inquiry into the company’s activities by Russian authorities. Here’s a short summary of [...]
Observations, activism
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September 23, 2007
If Borat ever ventures into Uzbekistan, he may want to replace his sparring partner Azamat Bagatov (yes, that big hairy man who was fighting Borat in a hotel room), Alisher Usmanov would be a much better choice (hey, that rhymes!). Artistically, that’s a replacement way better (bigger, stronger) than the original: Usmanov is an Uzbekistan-born man [...]
Observations, activism, blogging
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September 8, 2007
So after taking an extended blog holiday, I’ve decided it’s high time to bring this blog back to life! As some of you may know, I’ve been traveling extensively for most of the summer (and I am still traveling for a few more months, I think), so access was not always as good as I [...]
Observations
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April 15, 2007
It’s time to kick off this new blog with the first post. It’s not my first blog, and probably not my last one. I used to blog at Sharp&Sound, where I mostly shared my thoughts and observations on global affairs, with a heavy Eurasian focus. As I found out, this is not a very exciting [...]
Observations
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