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A nuanced view from the disapora on the current Kenyan crisis. “This violence is still largely political rather than ethnic.”
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Intel pulls out from the OLPC board, states “philosophical differences.” And the pissing match starts again. Isn’t Intel embarrased to be seen attempting to crush a nonprofit project?
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Excellent piece by Pascal Zachary on the race to provide innovative technical solutions in Africa, led by China and India - the “browning” of developing world innovation
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Another debunking of the Lancet Iraq death studies. Some concerns have been well-answered by the Lancet authors, others are more disturbing. Fascinating to see how much debate these studies have generated thus far.
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Fascinating group blog with a focus on overcoming cognitive biases through Bayesian reasoning and other statistical applications
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Commentary in the Lebanon Daily Star endorsing Obama as a globalist candidate: “The very moment he appears on the world’s television screens, victorious and smiling, America’s image and soft power would experience something like a Copernican revolution.”
January 6th, 2008 at 10:13 am
The rift in the OLPC camp is very sad. But I don’t understand why they refused to extend the Buy One Give One project outside the USA. I wanted to evaluate one for a project in Benin - offering to pay for it, but no, that wasn’t possible. No explanation of why.
January 9th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
thanks for the link ethan