A warning: you reap what you sow!

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 …

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Messing up a beautiful language

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” …

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Ending mass incarceration

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.  …

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Is Powerpoint pointless?

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 …

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