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The Next Time Someone Says the Internet Killed Reading Books, Show Them This Chart
“Remember the good old days when everyone read really good books, like, maybe in the post-war years when everyone appreciated a good use of the semi-colon? Everyone’s favorite book was by Faulkner or Woolf or Roth. We were a civilized civilization. This was before the Internet and cable television, and so people had these, like, wholly different desires and attention spans. They just craved, craved, craved the erudition and cultivation of our literary kings and queens.
Well, that time never existed. Check out these stats from Gallup surveys. In 1957, not even a quarter of Americans were reading a book or novel. By 2005, that number had shot up to 47 percent. I couldn’t find a more recent number, but I think it’s fair to say that reading probably hasn’t declined to the horrific levels of the 1950s.”
Full Story: Atlantic
Source: emergentfutures
Make no mistake; in Africa, the hustle is real.
This is a “Praye” (Asante twi dialect). Also known as a broom. You know, that collection of finely trimmed broomsticks used for sweeping in Ghana and other parts of West Africa. I love this one.
Source: bempong
The Volta River flows through Ghana and Lake Volta, the largest reservoir in the world. There is a tiny town at the mouth of the Volta River called Ada Foah….
‘The sea is rising,’ one of the boys began to explain to me, ‘pushing this village out because God is Angry. God is angry with all the wrongdoings that people have done throughout the world and that is why the sea is rising and pushing this little village out.’
And as I thought to try and explain global warming to them, I stopped, because in some deeply illustrative way, they had already explained it to me.
People of Ada. Volta Region, Ghana. August, 2009 by Rebecca Thom
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Source: beingawake
Free Skype ‘much better’ than Labor’s $7.2m telehealth grant
RURAL doctors received $7.2 million from the federal government for software to enable them to communicate more easily with specialists, but some found downloading Skype was a better option.
Paul Higgins: Yet another example of non proprietary technologies being a better solution, especially because they are so intuitive to use - they have to be if they are to be successful in a wide ranging user group with low technical skills.
Full Story: Sunday Age
Source: emergentfutures
![“…The quality of this campus is the work of a team that is inspired by a vision. We have poured our hearts and our intellect into this project. It shows. […] This is the work of Africans…” - Patrick Awuah, speaking at Ashesi University’s inauguration in August.
#ThankYouPatrick #ThankYouAshesi](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsylcbsRVi1qfufkoo1_1280.jpg)
“…The quality of this campus is the work of a team that is inspired by a vision. We have poured our hearts and our intellect into this project. It shows. […] This is the work of Africans…” - Patrick Awuah, speaking at Ashesi University’s inauguration in August.
#ThankYouPatrick #ThankYouAshesi
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify and vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as crazy, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” RIP, Steve Jobs (1955-2011). You will be missed.
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Source: curiositycounts
