I love hearing stories of “happy little accidents” in the world of inventing and on April 13th ‘60 Minutes‘ did a story on John Kanzius telling of a potential life and world changing device. His invention, with it’s early beginnings developed from his wife’s pie pans, has the greatest potential to possibly cure, or eliminate some/all cancer. So far, animal testing has produced exciting results. As if that wasn’t exciting enough, it also can cause plain ol’ saltwater to burn at extremely high temperatures. Check it out!
it’s starts at a measly $118,000, gets a global warming good 15 miles per gallon (thank god it’s not diesel) with it’s all-wheel drive goodness. But at least it beat the pants off a damn Landrover Discovery I know (50% better, to be exact)
Trying to keep up with all the interesting revelations occurring around the world with regards to Tibet, I found a blogger from Taiwan who elaborates on the difficulties of working in the media there, citing one specific example.
I’ve been discussing my recent angst about working as a tool to the Chinese propaganda machine, even from an independently owned media company. While I don’t feel the mainstream U.S. media is any less victimized by its alignment with government information sources, in our country we have the right to choose to hear our own perverted news the way we like it. It is the distinct lack of choice here, the standard of un-informing the masses in order to maintain control, that troubles me. It’s fascinating, really, to consider both countries’ ability to manipulate news with a dichotomy between those who choose to be misinformed and those who are systematically uninformed.
His article is quick, but shows what lengths are gone through to paint the best possible picture for China without exactly lying. No wonder why we do so much business with China, no wonder why we have a huge trade deficit with them.