Don’t Just Throw Money

Too much of a good thing?

A great piece about how throwing money (and in this case, enormous sums) is not going to help Haiti like we would like it to.

David and Monsanto

Fears grow as study shows genetically modified crops ‘can cause liver and kidney damage’

It’s like David and Goliath.  G’luckkkkk.

So Salty

Big Benefits Are  Seen From Eating Less Salt

Shout to Simon’s alma matter and possible next school in one article.

Kids are Better

Children Take the Stage in Same-Sex Marriage Push

But also interesting point at the end about marriage as an access point for health care.

Pw: password

Simple Passwords Remain Popular, Despite Risk of Hacking

I am number 11 TIGHT.

Pookie:

In the idealized world championed by security specialists, people would have different passwords for every Web site they visit and store them in their head or, if absolutely necessary, on a piece of paper.

Of Looting

Heroes And Not Criminals: The Ethics of Looting

An interesting debate.  Too bad the article is cut short and offers insufficient exploration into morality of the subject.  But great for starting off some thinking.

Household Engineer

Stanford researcher urges universities, businesses to offer benefit to pay for housework

I remember hearing  a vague statistic recently that if you were to pay someone to do all your household chores, you’d pay him/her over $40,000 a year.

BROWN Sugar Mama (;

Modern Marriages: The Rise of the Sugar Mama

HeYOOOOO!

Little Kids

Remembering the Little People: Accounting for Kids

Why not modify our national income accounts to label both private and public expenditures on children as investment, rather than as consumption?

Angels and Demons

I don’t know why I ended up watching Angels and Demons, but it was one of those films that are incredibly easy to watch and multi-task.  Though it did make me want to travel to Italy (and Vatican City) that much mooooore.