Random quotes, images, and thoughts from Ed Ireson.
Mapping the Seven Deadly Sins — I left the Lust capital of the US to move to the Greed capital.
The OLPC is dead. (per the UN dispatch). And Timothy Ogden (editor-in-cheif of Philanthropy Action) reminds us that doing other things (like improving the overall health of children) results in better education than laptops. I’m still a fan of going “naked” in the classroom, sans the technology.
Big Food vs. Big Insurance. — Michael Pollan notes that the elephant in the room for the Healthcare debate isn’t Pharm or Insurance Co’s… it’s our terrible eating habits.
The Preservation of Favoured Traces — A cool graphic revealing the editing and expansion done by Darwin while writing On the Origin of Species.
The World, as of 9/10/2001 — Some striking images from The New York Times of the WTC towers.
