There are millions of children around the world that don't have access to the basic necessities of life - enough food, clean water, healthcare, education, security. So it seems a little crazy that the One Laptop Per Child Foundation is trying to not only
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I've just finished reading Raj Patel's excellent Stuffed and Starved , which has (rather predictably) shifted my axis of middle-class guilt over to the 'food' quadrant. Luckily, I'm getting better at channeling my guilt into experimentation with alternatives
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(I'm writing these partly as little summaries to remind myself, partly just to practice writing. My writing feels a little creaky right now, rather rusted and slow-moving.) Guns, germs and steel, Jared Diamond A wide-ranging book that stretches across
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