Lifestyle topics
You can do nothing on the web without filling in your email address and password. It gets time-consuming, especially if, like me, one has a number of passwords (for security reasons) and you can’t remember which one you should use. Why is it obligatory to do this? If it’s a bank or the Defense Department …
Americans have become heavier over the years – and not just Americans – and the prevalence of Type 2 diabetes has rapidly increased. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that about 10 percent of American adults have Type 2 diabetes, and that 86 million (!) adults over age 20 are prediabetic. Call that 86 …
Back in March an online petition calling on Italians to stop using English words (for which there are equivalents in their own language) gathered nearly 70,000 signatures . Italians should not squander the “history, culture and beauty of our language”, said the campaigners, who highlighted the growing use of clumsy hybrid terms such as “footing” …
The United States has over 2 million people in jail. It is home to 4.4 percent of the world’s population, and 22 percent of its prisoners. The private-for-profit prison “industry” is a $70 billion industry. The system is deeply immoral. State governments guarantee private prison corporations an occupancy rate that will keep prison cells filled. …
Some years ago I was a business consultant, specializing in small hi- tech companies, mainly. Such companies wanted your report in easily digested sound-bights. So you tried to get your points over to them using flip pads, with headlines and simple sentences that were digestible and might be remembered. At some point I realised that …
