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Articles and Websites of Interest
Articles from
2009-2010
Here
is what a trillion dollars looks like
Here is an article about a new jihadi code
Here is an article about witches in Kenya
Here is an article about the science of success
Here and
here are fun geography tests
Here is an article about albinos in Tanzania
Here is a great video about a simple item created for
kids
Here is an article about children slaves in Pakistan
Check
out how the decade has changed things
Here is an article on child sex slavery in Cambodia
What does it mean to be
middle class
Be careful with your
Facebook page
An article and video on the
Guinea Worm
Articles from 2010-2011
Here is a website on
innovation
Transforming Kenya one bridge at a time
Children killed as witches in Nigeria
Money and happiness
Boy earns 1 cent a goat in slaughter trade
A boy and a bike in Zimbabwe
A man's job is to climb a tower 1768 feet tall (video)
India's wall of death
Why religion breeds happiness: Friends
Article about Steve Wozniak
Why your
Facebook ID is marketers' Holy Grail
Are
Americans as Poor as They Feel?
Apple engineer re-creates ancient computer with Legos
African Huts Far From the Grid Glow With Renewable Power
Student tracking finds limited learning in college
The World's
Happiest Countries
Muhammad Yunus faces removal
End of store
fitting rooms?
Ending
modern slavery
Income Inequality: Where do you fall?
Myths about the rich and poor
Top 1% and what they make
Commodities of Depreciating Value
Americans Flunk Budget IQ test
Happiest careers in America
Economic music videos!
A
guy quits his job and moves to Rwanda to work with Kiva.org
George Ayittey on Cheetahs vs. Hippos: The Future of
Africa
Getting Smart on Aid
The tent
that turns into concrete in less than 24 hours
Why your brain needs vacation
Why is America the no vacation nation?
Forever Young? In Some way, yes.
Thiel Fellowship Pays 24 Talented Students $100,000 Not to
Attend College
Articles from 2011-2012
Will computers replace teachers?
College is a waste of time
Rebellion of an Innovation Mom
Banks sell your shopping habits
Google
is changing your brain, study says, and don't you forget it
Indiana teen's racy photos are free speech
Life in "trash land"
Kids sue mother for being a "bad mom"
Throat singer of Mongolia
Robert Reich explains the credit downgrade
A
club where rich people break things
el General,
the voice of Tunsia
National debt facts
Is
technology for good for the classroom?
Plastic coke bottles become light source in homes
Poverty rate rises in America
What if the secret to success is failure?
Amazing wingsuit video
Technology in the classroom (with me in the article)
How
Whole Foods "primes" you to shop
Beyond Red vs. Blue: The Political Typology
The
rising cost of raising a child
How much 'forced labor' fuels your lifestyle?
New "fat tax" in Denmark
Things Student loan companies won't tell you
Raising minimum wages in certain states
Bay area cost of living up 18%
India announces $35 tablet computer for rural poor
Wozniak remembers Steve Jobs
Three women's rights activists share Nobel Peace Prize
Steve Jobs commencement speech at Stanford
Jeffery Sachs on 7 Billion people on the planet
Earn $2,000 a night as a boomtown stripper
The 53%: We are NOT Occupy Wall Street
Why The Economy Looks Like Expansion, Feels Like Recession
The plastic surgery a model needs to look like Barbie
More Americans than Chinese can’t put food on the table
Is the tide turning against the killing of 'cursed' infants in
Ethiopia?
Photos of victim, the other an oppressor in the Rwanda genocide
More Facebook Friends, Fewer Real Ones, Says Cornell Study
2012 candidates slip on Econ 101
How
Ants Wage War
'Nymwars' debate over online identity explodes
Congress Approval Rating Lower Than Porn, Polygamy, BP Oil
Spill, 'U.S. Going Communist'
The Face of Modern Slavery
Girls Just Want to Go to School
Failure is Good
$34.3 billion in vacation days to go unused this year
Enticing words printed on bags of potato chips have a lot to say
about social class, Stanford researchers find
The
humble potato chip and packaging language target class
distinctions
Clothing Giant H&M Defends ‘Perfect’ Virtual Models
Census shows 1 in 2 people are poor or low-income
The overjustification effect
Websites of Interest
Website to find
foreign news sources
Here is a
great website for map quiz practice
Here is fun website on
information collection, visualization and interactive mapping
Here is a website
for the Baraka video that tells you about the locations
An amazing
aircraft that actually flaps it's wings to fly
Interview with world's oldest man
Check out this website if you
are worried about illegal immigrants taking jobs
Stephen Colbert on capitol hill talking about the plight of farm
laborers
82% of children under 2 have an on-line presence
7 Towns where land is free
New website Jumo helps with the social good
World Values Survey
Website Be the Change for Global
Health issues
One Day’s Wages
(ODW) is a new grassroots
movement of people, stories, and actions to alleviate extreme global
poverty
This website unites girls to
change the world
Justice with
Michael Sandel from Havard
Where do you fall on
the political spectrum?
Fighting poverty with
innovation, evidence and action
World
poverty by way of gumballs
World Reader uses
e-readers around the world
Million
Moms Challenage
A great way to fund
schools in Africa
Room to Read
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