February 2012
16 posts
The psychological poverty trap →
Shafir has proved that anyone faced with adverse conditions will consistently make bad economic decisions. An experiment he conducted with Mullainathan and Zhao placed financially-savvy Princeton students from prominent families under the stressful and rushed conditions that poor people face every day. They were given questions to answer in a series of timed rounds, but were permitted to...
rocio SZ: Incomplete Manifiesto →
rociosz:
Allow events to change you. You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.
Forget about good. Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. Growth is not necessarily good. Growth is an...
January 2012
39 posts
“As soon as it became clear that I would be kettled with the protesters, I...”
– Gavin Aronsen, Mother Jones reporter arrested in Occupy Oakland mass arrest (via pieceinthepuzzlehumanity)
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known...”
– Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (via elige)
“If you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll...”
– Bruce Lee (via cnymil)
“Love is metaphysical gravity.”
– R. Buckminster Fuller (via lucifelle)
“MANIFESTO OF POST-FUTURISM
1. We want to sing of the danger of love, the daily...”
– Franco Berardi aka Bifo, MANIFESTO DEL DOPOFUTURISMO [manifesto of post-futurism] via eipcp.net (via underpaidgenius)
270,000 Organic Farmers Sue Monsanto →
glitchthemachine:
More than 270,000 organic farmers are taking on corporate agriculture giant Monsanto in a lawsuit filed March 30. Led by the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association, the family farmers are fighting for the right to keep a portion of the world food supply organic—and preemptively protecting themselves from accusations of stealing genetically modified seeds that drift on to...
