Losing our common wealth of knowledge
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EDUCATION has long been regarded as a strength of the Scottish nation, but recent trends raise the question of whether we might have squandered our inheritance.
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I'm beginning to wonder if some extraterrestrial has removed the common sense of the people we send to represent us in Washington.
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What we avoid in small caps, and why we avoid it.
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Comment is free: Oliver James: The growth in relative materialism over the past 20 years is taking a heavy toll on the wellbeing of English-speaking nations
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Feeling too rich? Here's how to shed some excess wealth.
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Scientific insights into why we keep overspending, and other bad financial habits.
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Ancora scarse le informazioni e la diffusione dei depliant
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I was looking at what my friend Stephen Lewis wrote in HakPakSak a few days ago &#151; specifically "...newspapersâ roles as public trusts and cornerstones of our informational infrastructure &#151; i.e. sources of solid information and independent commentary essential to informed citizenry, democratic government, effective public policy, and well-functioning economies".. What this brought up for me is the notion that human beings are themselves infrastructural; especially when they are constuctive contributors to the structure we call civilization. read more
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More on the disappearing-public-companies phenomenon.
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Putting the recent collapse in perspective.
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Sure, there are more brands than ever. But their value is plummeting as consumer loyalty evaporates. Who's to blame? A new breed of hyperinformed superconsumers. By James Surowiecki from Wired magazine.
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For many, Sputnik was proof that Americaâs science education, had fallen behind. But, since then, how far have we come?
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Given the enormous physical, emotional and financial toll of cancer, one might expect researchers to promote the free and open exchange of information. They donât.
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By Sherman, Will  THIS ARTICLE, REPRINTED FROM DEGREE TUTOR, MAY SEEM TO FOCUS ON PUBLIC LIBRARIES-BUT THERE IS WISDOM HERE FOR ALL INFO PROS. Many predict that the digital age will wipe public bookshelves clean, and permanently end the centuries-old era of libraries.
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BERLIN, Sep 12 (IPS) - Asking questions. This everyday activity is the key  to sowing the seeds of change according to Dropping Knowledge, a  German-U.S. non-governmental organisation which hopes to  germinate those seeds online, and create an unprecedented  database of the pressing social themes of our times.
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Unearthing values in the post-bubble wreckage.
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Time is running out to resolve one of the most critical debates in Western society.