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2007 29
Thought Nuggets from Twitter – Part 3
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- When a successful entrepreneur stops investing and starts donating, paradoxically, he slows down the economy somewhat.
- The brits must have done something right cause their ex colonies rule the world…
- If people stop having kids once they realized that they were more of a financial burden than a pension…why were they having them?
- The Chinese Com Pty is hooked on selling goods to USA. US govt is hooked on selling paper to the Chinese Com Pty.
- If rich people need poor people to be rich, who r the poor that make the Scandinavians so rich?
- Piracy of US content has led to Chinese who want to be “American”. The world can’t afford this.
- Will the MBA of the future be a file transfer into our brain?
- China is now a nation of lone children.
- Most of the GDP of the world is concentrated in 7 times zones out of 24. So r most of the people.
- Why r most rich countries socialist at home and liberal abroad?
- USA has a very poorly distributed income still it is better distributed than in “socialist” Venezuela.
- Why do most rich countries support the welfare state but not the welfare planet?
- Why don’t we elect the secretary general of the UN in a global election?
- In capitalist NYC the rich pay much higher taxes (48%) than the rich in comunist China.
- Land should be taxed if left unused. Patents should be taken away if left unexploited.
- They should teach intro to consumer society at schools so kids learn all the tricks that advertisers use on them
- Humans r still killed by animals. As we grow smarter our rivals get smaller.
- Spain’s presidents don’t speak English
- education for entrepreneurs should be based on problem solving rather than memorization
- Cultures of innovation, homogeneous: Nokia, diverse: Google
- To promote organ donation they should give organ priority to those who declare themselves donors
- China is the biggest contributor to global warming now, but the one who suffers desertification the most.
- As the Chinese go for religion again the poor become christian and the rich budhist
- Plug in hybrids has the big advantage that cars are charged at night.
- Plug in hybrids are a distributed solution to our inability to store electricity
- In the Hudson River they r testing current based electricity generation.
- I like novels that manage to explain what science has fail to understand
- If knowledge is 100 I think that in 1800 we were at 5 and in 2007 we r at 10
- I can understand people who believe in God slightly better than those who believe in any organized religion
- Some predict political demands will increase in China if the economy stops growing. I think the opposite.
- Jews believe that the world was created 5768 yrs ago. 5.768bn would be almost right.
- Now that we have C sections, will brain size continue to grow?
- USA co’s beat other countries because USA’ co’s can attract best from those countries
- A true love story can’t have a happy ending
- Before science was discovered religions used to evolve.
- An avatar in Second Life consumes as much electricity as the average Brazilian
- Worldwide internet related emissions are now equivalent to those generated by the airline industry
- Most marriages fail because being everything to one person is just too hard
- The treatment of pedestrians by car drivers says a lot about a culture
- Most work a third of the day for a third of the year. Should people be defined by what they do at work?
- Is the real death of a person the last time somebody thinks about them?
- If u want to go fast go alone if u want to go far go in a group, African proverb
- Tutu is the only religious figure who makes me like religion
- You Tube should launch You tube Live for people to have live web casts of long tail sports events
- Politicians are people who are particularily trained in acting slowly.
- The key to successful parenting is that your kids get it by the time u don’t anymore
- Apple proves that decline does not mean extinction and it can be reversed.
- all currencies are sinking except the euro and the pound, when are the Arabs going to stop holding dollars?
- France still has to do the reforms that Germany did. Without this and with the euro at 1.42….
- All students should have a laptop, but not during class.
- The test of self esteem: when you find someone who has done something great, do you feel admiration or envy?
- In the US there r more black people in jail than in college
- the internet is an extension of our neural system, in a few centuries we will connect ourselves to it
- Japan’s population is aging and shrinking but the Japanese still reject immigration as a solution.
- The problem with capitalism and democracy is that capitalism, as China and Russia show, does not need democracy.
- The trouble with some journalists is that in their eagerness to tell the truth, they imagine it.
- Time mag talks about winning the climate war. Why do Americans think so many problems r “wars”?
- To rule in NYC u need $, in San Fran talent, in Paris elegance, in Madrid humor, in London all of the above.
- 2 competing urbanization models, downtown vs suburban fight it out around the world
- The Holocaust survivors who founded Israel thought that Christians were far more dangerous than Muslims to Jews.
- In ancient times kings were very rich, now the very rich r kings.
- On the average children are the poorest people in the world. Is that partly because they can’t vote?
- All children of UN countries should have one year of common education around how to get along with each other and the earth.
- When will we stop saying that Europeans discovered America and say the simple truth: that they invaded it.
- Why does my native Argentina reinvent the wheel when it gets to economics (price controls) and politics (Peronism instead of right and l … …
- A German Politician is proposing that marriage be a 7 year renewable and not a lifetime committment
- if stats show that spaniards read less books, spend less time on the net, see less movies than northern europeans, what do they do?
- Divorced parents with kids still have a lifetime relationship in a way.
- pinging is so much more energy efficient than crawling!
- Dollars r the new pesos! Funny
- A historian is a matchmaker of the past and present.
- If it wasn’t for that we still pay for stuff in the real world the ad supported virtual world would cease to exist.
- While many worry about Iran going nuclear Pakistan is and it’s on fire.
- high school is the last time in your life in which you are expected to be good at everything
- I am frequently surprised how quickly Americans call strangers amigos. Facebook is the $15bn amigo corporation.
- The best combination: Europe’s values, America’s creativity and Asia’s drive.
- If global warming increases plant mass. Shouldn’t climate change be self correcting?
- Downloading requires a lot of time and hard drive space. Streaming sites are much easier and cheaper to use.
- Spanish is an underepresented language on the internet because hispanics love to talk in real life!
- We should start a campaign on the internet against the frequent attacks from traditional media. Si a la red! Yes to the internet!
- American incomes look very high til you divide it by the amount of hours they work or convert it to euros.
- Chavez likes to say that you are either with him or with Bush. Many of us find both pathetic leaders.
- At my home streaming sent to the big TV is replacing satellite TV
- Marriage’s challenge: it’s hard not to underdeliver when u start with such an overpromise.
- what goes up must come down…. unless it goes into orbit
- if carriers implemented number portability, google should implement ranking portability so u can take your blog to another platform
- my twitter is only quiet when Loiclemeur is asleep in California 😉
- if internet advertising is so great, why do people dislike mags without ads and instead dislike web sites with ads?
- If property is theft…. what is poverty?
- Wikipedia is a collective approach to reality.
- A living organism is a genetic plan looking for approval
- PCs of all kinds should be considered cultural goods and move around the world duty free.
- selling marijuana is illegal, selling weapons is legal ??!!
- The reason infectious disease does not succeed wiping us out is that we r the pathogens homes. They could but they also need a place.
- That the US has not been attacked again proves that civilians at home do a much better job than the military abroad.
- For a country having tons of oil is a curse. Hard for citizens to come up with anything that beats money pumped from the ground.
- Many foreigners believe that USA is a dictatorship because what they get to see, US Foreign policy mostly is.
- Is the US bad loan a 50bn write off or a half a trillion write off?
- Charity is not sustainable
- Everything changes but flying hasn’t changed in 30 yrs.
- why are internet companies taking over tv and not the other way around?
- My dream wifi router would download my favorite movies on its own while I am at work.
- judaism does not oppose abortion emphasis is on healthy baby not conception
- Populist leaders are bad, but unpopular leaders are worse.
- Oil is bad but coal is worse
- USA is the only country that supports the death penalty….that you would want to live in.
- Christmas was invented to get over the depressing winter days, in my native Argentina it comes at exactly the wrong time.
- Slim, #1 rich man in the world has wealth equiv to 7% of the Mex GDP. Gates 0.4% of US GDP.
- Methamphetamine is the most important drug you have never heard about (or taken)
- Life’s challenge is not to have problems but to learn how to deal with them.
- Why should we care more than China about North Korea’s atomic bombs?
2007 27
Thought Nuggets from Twitter – Part 2
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I don’t twit in the traditional sense of the term (internet tradition is measured in months not years). I don’t generally tell people what I am doing. Instead I twit what I am thinking about. For year end I will post what Evan Williams, founder of Twitter, appropriately called thought nuggets.
- Ireland shows that to thrive you don’t need to have leading global companies. U just need for them to like u.
- having children is the only miracle we can experience in real life
- will the next web finally be the one in which the interface is human meaning speech, video, sound, and not keyboards and text?
- i am now trilingual, mac, ubuntu, windows, but I rarely use windows anymore
- Why is top blogging equal or better than top print and top video blogging a la youtube so much worse than cable TV?
- the best internet conferences in Europe are DLD, Google Zeitgeist, Le Web 3 and SIME
- facebook: your social CV
- my favorite Nokia apps are shozu. fring and pocketcaster
- Are Putin and Hu Jintao dictators or are they necessary intermediary steps between Stalin, Mao….and democracy?
- There are 3 approaches to immigration: no immigrants like Japan, low skilled immigrants like Spain, most qualified immigrants around the wo …
- FedEx proves that moving things is much more profitable than moving people.
- virtual philanthropy, second life or stardoll can give virtual property away for free to people in poor countries
- Airlines are masters at affinity programs yet they don’t seat people on planes according to affinities.
- There r 3 Arab civil wars going on now in Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq.
- With global warming the amount of cells in the planet will increase.
- Would Sarkozy love an Obama led America as much?
- I was against Sarkozy but I sincerely hopes he brings a sense of urgency to complacent France
- A few months ago the future was in Second Life, now the future is in Facebook, where is the future going to be tomorrow?
- USA tries to stop illegals at the border. Europe on the streets.
- I work better since I abandoned Microsoft for Ubuntu and Mac. But I can’t wait for browser based computing to be ready.
- Coming from Europe, Canada seems like a kinder, more caring, USA.
- in USA “undivided attention” is a thing of the past
- Are social networks about being social or about self promotion.
- Facebooks success is like America’s: immigration.
- San Fran. One of the most beatiful cities in the world. Even the homeless seem to agree.
- Why is it that in Europe most parking is underground and in America is not?
- I am in the wine country. Didn’t know they had such a country. Its just beautiful!
- Calistoga, Healdsburg, areas, add them to the list of places to see…
- When u fly in America, u realize that terrorism won.
- Why if women do not compete with men in sports do they fight agaimst them in war?
- there are over 700 people worth over $5 million thanks to the rise in Google share price
- Skype should offer an open API for chat even if it does not for voice. If not Google Talk will eventually catch up.
- forget about the war on drugs, i want to start the war…on war
- One measure of civilization: lowest police per capita.
- as population grows, there are more people who believe in past lives that there are past lives available for them
- Israel is the home of over one million Palestinian. None of them become terrorists.
- Is it possible to be a very well educated person and not speak English?
- Since Facebook opened apps all the other communities I belong to are going silent.
- It is easier for me to understand why humans die than to understand why they sleep.
- Chile has the best government in Latin America, but the worst music. In Cuba the opposite is true.
- The Bible by proclaiming virginity leaves out the only miracle we do experience in real life: conception.
- Nintendo fanboys are sheep, Sony fanboys are crabs, PC gamers r hermits
- The best two service economies are USA and Japan. One is based on tipping. The other one on duty.
- the iPhone is web 1.0, it s a great spectator phone, but you can’t film, the camera is very poor, it’s amazing to read but poor to write on …
- Pakistan’s ruler likes the West but his people hate it. Iran has a ruler who hates the West, but his people like us. Pakistan has the bomb. …
- Enhanced TV is the TV industry answer to time shifting
- 2006 was the year with most TV sold in USA, most TVs sold over 50 inches
- HBO is the only big TV network without ads, can that last?
- US regulators believe that anyone in finance who is consistently generating alpha is cheating
- Londons recent lead gain over NYC is mostly due to poor US reg moves
- U cannot chat, film, gps on an iPhone.
- Companies r taken private when investors think they will be misunderstood
- The net neutrality fight, to US consumers, is like hearing divorced parents argue, consumers need both, papa and mama
- The fastest growing population segment in OECD countries is those over 65
- A smoker has on the average 3400 dollars of extra medical costs per year in USA
- Health Care systems should be rated along 3 axis: quality, access and cost.
- The secret to how grandparents get along so well with grandchildren is their common enemy
- The members of the Forbes 400 pay less taxes in percentage terms than their receptionists
- USA has a 250bn deficit with China. USA gets goods. China gets paper.
- U want to buy a biz that an idiot can run cause sooner or later one will, pete lynch
- As I listen to Bill Gates present I realize that he is falling out of touch with the times.
- Microsoft Surface, computer on your desk gets in your desk, looked cool
- George Burns got 4 amazing girls for his 95th bday. He saw them and said: sorry babes, I am 95, one of u has to go.
- Warren Buffett’s political views would make him very well liked in Europe. In USA he gets away with them.
- USA and Europe lose a lot by training foreign students and then refusing them work visas.
- The NYC public school system has to deal with students whose parents speak 170 different languages
- In the States education is managed by mayors, not presidents
- Biz is on on dog eat dog world, politics is just the reverse
- Problem: politics has gone global but policies remain local
- Many local problems only have global solutions
- Tony Blair a hero of mine in spite of Iraq. I wish he ran the UN
- Bush argues that if USA leaves Iraq the country will fall into chaos. At this point it is more likely that the opposite is true.
- Americans defeat the weather. In the winter…it’s too hot, in the summer it’s too cold.
- Carlos Slim is the wealthiest man on earth. Mexico’s GDP is 1/17th of that of USA.Slim’s wealth says a lot about poor income distribution! …
- in madrid people are nasty in the upper class suburbs and nice downtown, in NYC the opposite is true
- in America the rich are mostly visible, in Spain they are mostly invisible
- in America many people take their babies out of their homes and drive them around to put them to sleep…
- NY Times says USA has become one of the countries with the most road fatalities rates, it ranks bet Poland and Greece.
- in New Hampshire its legal to drive without your seat belt: live free or die?
- the Youtube/CNN debate made the Time cover true, the clipmakers were the protagonists
- the Americans invent, the Europeans design, the Chinese manufacture
- China is replacing USA as the growth engine of the world. USA is slowed down by military spending and legal waste.
- USA’s real estate market moves in two different waves, one for 99% of the population and the other for 1% of the population
- Many conspiracy theories come out of poor policy choices. People can’t believe that their gov is so incompetent and attribute higher motives …
- I prefer to know what people are thinking than what they r doing
- do first born children have more sleeping problems? if they do it must due to the inexperience of the parents
- women are overcoming 10K years of oppression in 50, not bad
- Americans let teens drive at 16 but get to drink at 21. I think it would be best if teens could learn to drink in moderation and then drive
- When it gets to sex and alcohol the US gov makes teens feel and act like criminals.
- Endowments many times survive their reason to exist
- Freedom is the ability to lead a life without fear
- in Argentina where I grew up being very thin was associated with being poor, in the Hamptons where I am now the opposite is true
- USA should lower the drinking age and raise the driving age
- 40% of bottled water in the States is tap water
- Back in Spain, make a GSM call, quality far superior to US, why r US cell nets so bad?
- Since 1980 the number of imprisoned Americans grew 450%
- How can the Spaniards work so little compared to the Koreans and have the same GDP per person?
- Is Google atmospheric P/E a blessing or a curse for googlers?
- People get much more energy per kg of food than engines running biofuels.
- flying and sailing have much more in common than people think, people who are afraid of flying but not sailing should learn about this
- Laws should follow the principles of inactive email accounts, after certain years of not being used they should be deleted
- Paradox: in Europe the highest holocaust survival rates were among German Jews.
- Can fully veiled women be candidate in an election?
- The next big thing in tattoing is to tattoo objects
- Books are tools for communication and as such they are becoming outdated
- Why do so many people believe supermarket food poisons them?
- Ten percent of Protestants, 21 percent of Roman Catholics, and 52 percent of Jews do NOT believe in God.
- there are 1,4 billion Mulsims and 14 million Jews in the world
- there are over 6bn people on the planet, around 1 bn consider themselves non religious
- Religious theories are shortcuts towards explanations
- Europe and USA diverge on death penalty, guns, religion in politics, environment, military spending, egalitarianism, beaurocracy, transport
- When credit markets get shaky LDCs credit tanks first even when they run surpluses. Hard for them to believe in markets.
- When people tell me that we all had previous lives somehow I can’t work out the demographics
- Virginity: the rare occasion in which beginners are praised.
- People who are afraid of chemicals don’t seem to realize that all that we see and eat are chemicals.
- Americans can’t remember, Europeans can’t forget, Asians can’t forgive
- Digital photography. You can always do prints…you never do.
- I have a hard time with the notion that our TV signals will be around the universe once our planet is gone.
- The Southern hemisphere is mostly water, less able to eliminate carbon emitted in the North.
- There are more bacteria in your body than years in the universe.
- Antartica is technically a desert
- Learning requires focus, focus requires that we ignore most else, so learning requires ignorance?
- Judged by numbers, the animals who we hate, rats, have been doing better than the ones we like,cats.
- I spent hours thinking about a plausible theory of why humans like music and dance so much, could not come up with anything reasonable…
- When non US people buy dollars US citizens get richer. If those buyers shift to euros….
- Birth rates collapse when people children as a financial burden rather than life insurance. Is that why they were having them?
- weeks are an irrational division of time
- University is the place where professors teach u what they were never able to do
- Species need lucky mutants to evolve, does human knowledge need thinking mutants to expand?
- Anyone who is anybody spends time on the internet. If I was looking for Osama Bin Laden I would look for him online.
- USA is the only country able to export famous people, why?
- Growing old in America: Dawson’s Creek, Friends, Sex and the City, Desperate Housewives and Weeds.
- humans process food much more efficiently than cars, another reason to oppose biofuels
- global warming is bad except in the fact that it increases the amount of living cells in the planet
- Addiction treatments like AA rely on 0 tolerance for addictive substance. This is not possible with addiction to food.
- Does children happiness correlate better with parents being together or with time spent with parents?
2007 26
Thought Nuggets from Twitter – Part 1
Published by MartinVarsavsky.net in General with No Comments
I don’t twit in the traditional sense of the term (internet tradition is measured in months not years). I don’t generally tell people what I am doing. Instead I twit what I am thinking about. For year end I will post what Evan Williams, founder of Twitter, appropriately called thought nuggets.
- laptops still need to be lighter, faster, less hot and with daylong batteries
- the problem with psychology is one of marketing, nobody likes to be called a mental patient, how about changing titles to “life trainers”
- Immigrants make 8% of the population of USA but the companies they built account for 25% of US mkt cap
- The Spaniards disagree on staying Spanish. The French want to be French, but they disagree on the regime they want.
- How can the French have both, the largest supermarket chains in the world and the petit marche au coin?
- Most countries have cultural centers in Paris. USA does not need one. Its culture rules is pulled, not pushed.
- Height is one of the most overrated virtues
- using windows is like smoking, people know its bad for them, but they still do it cause they are addicted
- digesting the time warner news, tremendous coverage in the States
- Waking up to the cries of my baby son I enjoy the congratulatory messages
- Truth is a moving target
- Google rank should be language based
- sugar and milk, if u stir well you end up with dulce de leche, if you don’t with curd milk
- I don’t care about what most people do. I do care about what a few people think.
- As u roam the world: what does your footprint look like?
- Does the instinct to kill have anything to do with eliminating competitors?
- My iPod is designed by Americans, buit by Asians and populated by Africans
- In Hollywood movies bad guys were first German, then Russians, then Arabs, lately….Americans
- Guns don’t kill people. People kill people. But people with guns kill more people.
- If u make Ducatis, should u feel remorse for all the people who die riding them?
- If speeding is dealt with fines so should illegal downloads.
- Is evolution about species or about DNA itself building a diversified survival portfolio?
- Can u be both very smart and very poor in America?
- Are keyboards so bad to give us a chance to think about what we write?
- Sorry twitter but I am still not telling u what I am doing right now.
- Can u do a newspaper for the chinese that is in english?
- considering how islamic Saudi Arabia already is it is remarkable that the people who fight that regime are those who want it more so
- Its unfortunate Koreans, Chinese and Japanese dislike each other when there’s so much they can do jointly.
- I am a green, but i am in favor of prudent use of Nuclear Energy and GM food
- While the world changes aircraft dont
- School is a poor model for real life
- If u think of air as a fluid flying becomes sailing
- is the richest country the one with the richest people or the one with the richest poor people?
- politics is a winner takes all game, that’s why politicians trash each other even more than competing businesses
- I allow my kids to bring their boyfriends/girlfriends to sleepover at home after a one year relationship, in USA I could be sued I was told
- In Spain the law works so slowly that people are forced to get along
- in the 70s maoist terrorists killed in Europe, now they are simply outdated, hope the same happens to islamic terrorists in a decade
- music is a collection of sounds that somehow make sense
- Israelis are realizing that the Lebanon invasion made Hezbollah more powerful
- babies show that falling asleep must be a very scary experience for the uninitiated
- Is having children a humanitarian act?
- I have loved hip hop since RunDMC in the 80s. Almost nobody else I know does.
- sarko and sego’s debate looks like a matrimonial dispute
- a single engine turboprop that i used to own fell in the Mediterranean yesterday
- craig’s list is like the bad looking guy who gets all the cute girls
- Nazis killed 3 times as many Russians as they killed Jews. Why are there so many Russian Neonazis?
- The toughest job that immigrants are doing in Europe is having and raising children.
- gtalk is not a download anymore, that makes it so much easier to use!
- we hear about gold diggers, we hear less about beauty diggers
- Why are women more religious than men?
- Men make most rules but women tend to follow them better
- www.fotolog.com one pix per day diet leads to more page views than flickr all u can eat
- why can’t France get the heart of sego with the brains of sarko?
- everyone in Europe likes the welfare state, but the French are addicted to it
- the 35 hour French assumes that work is punishment, i favor freedom for all, workaholics and workphobics to work as they negotiate
- European garage designers are in cohoots with body shop owners
- my father used to argue that the 7 day week in which we all work 5 days and rest 2 does not make sense, he proposed shifts and a 6 day week
- at least on twitter I am a follower of Barack Obama
- beaurocrats exist thanks to unnecesary laws and regulations
- on the earth we move until we run out of energy, in space we move until we encounter energy
- Wish Turkey was the role model in the Muslim World as far as separation of mosque and state
- Curse: to only be happy til u find someone else who is happier
- In Europe people rarely talk to strangers and ask them where they r from.
- In the last decades capitalism clearly won. But democracy?
- we have the social router, the fonera, should we launch the fatera a social scale for collaborative weight loss?
- the Chinese r only one political party away from American style democracy
- God’s probably an Atheist cause he does not believe in a superior being who created him
- Good funk doesn’t die, it’s remixed.
- the American election will be a gender, race and generational contest
- Blair and Bush made the same mistake in Iraq, but for different reasons.
- Best measure of national food success is that which foreigners like the most.
- In Spain it’s blind people who sell lottery tickets. A lesson on trust.
- Many people I know are migrating to Mac or Ubuntu. I have yet to find one person who loves Vista.
- USA alternates left and right in decades, Reagan, Clinton, Bush and now?
- Are Netlog and Meetic the two largest communities in Europe?
- sms is the technology that has been pronounced dead most often, and Americans are just discovering it…
- In Spain birth rates collapsed in the 90s, the country had to import 8% of it population in the last 7 years
- Spain has the most proislamic press that I have seen in Europe.
- The best diet is to eat whatever u normally eat, but less. I don’t believe in eating weird stuff.
- In England high school ends at 16, college goes from 16 to 18 and university starts at 18.
- USA’s fights illegal immigration at the border, Europe in the streets.
- It would be arrogant of us to believe that only on earth there’s life
- sometimes my body seems to have a mind of its own
- Europe is 46% of Google’s profits. Where is Europe’s Google?
- Eric Schmidt says Google has the LAX theory of corporate culture…if u r stuck at LAX for 6hrs with the candidate…
- Why is it that most oil in the world is own by non democrats? Coincidence or does oil allow rulers disregard the views of others?
- the second tear most successful web communities like bebo, netlog, fotolog or twitter have a real hard time making more than $500K per month
- www.jamba.de spends 70 million euros in TV advertising, and it’s profitable
- ad based companies reach a ceiling that is only pierced when they get into the virtual property business a la facebook gifts
- the bubble test: when only vcs and not crowds fall in love with your idea
- Countries don’t attack countries in which they have invested a lot of money, unless they are about to lose it….
- twitter without IM is not fun as I twit from my blackberry using jabber, fix this please!!
- Most of the people who speak Spanish are poor.
- Best cities to visit: NYC, Tokyo, Berlin, BA, Barcelona, Rome, Paris, San Fran.
- the different between a first wife and a second wife is that with the first u lost all arguments, with the second…most
- Berlin is by far the most interesting city in Germany
- Israel was built on the premise that Jews needed a safe home. Now the least safe place for Jews is Israel.
- The best incentive that we could offer Russia to reform is membership in the EU
- Why do ethnic groups who frequently murder each other stop doing so the moment they immigrate to USA?
- Yasmina Khadra says that the 2 choices of islamic youth r to emigrate or become terrorist.
- Paradox: The place in which Palestinian’s live best is Israel. The place in which they are worse off is Lebanon.
- skype is better than google talk but google talk keeps showing up everywhere, on twitter, blackberry, gmail…
- The most educated countries are those with the lowest police to crime ratios.
- The richest countries are those with the richest poor people.
- To what extent are new generations taller because of widespread availability of C Sections?
- genetics is getting to the point in which while we cannot know our genetic future knowing our genome we can now do a genetic “horoscope”
- Argentina has a huge trade surplus with China because China is the first industrialized country that does not subsidize its own food
- Is China the rising tide that lifts all boats?
- Only robots and communities yield extraordinary profits.