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  • This Week’s Rant

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    Under the category “Sustainability”, I find endless titles like: Sustainability is a “commerical imperative” – with a £1000bn reward The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)  counts Unilever, P&G, GM, Nestle, Coca-Cola, BP, Monsanto and Shell among its members. Ratings and rankings: How competition promotes corporate sustainability Here’s an interesting quote from Ratings and rankings: “At Ingersoll…

  • Bylakuppe – A little bit of Tibet

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    From an article in The New India Express by Dr. B R Mamatha: Tibet…remains inaccessible to common tourists and is the least explored travel destination in the world. Fortunately, a little bit of Tibet is well within our reach. Bylakuppe, a relatively unknown Tibetan township, the second largest settlement in India, provides the colours and taste…

  • Nutmeg – A Spice Oil of Mysticism and Intrigue!

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    Originally posted on suzannerbanks: Nutmeg – Myristica fragrans Just look at this gorgeous pod of deliciousness! The red, almost brain-like cover is what mace is made from. The nutmeg we know and love, and use in cooking is hidden underneath. Isn’t nature wonderful? The colours are divine and the nutmeg seed is protected by layers…

  • What you may not know about “God Bless America”

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    Sheryl Kaskowitz lists six surprising facts about the song “God Bless America” that you probably don’t know: It was written by Irving Berlin.  Like so many songs that have entered in American consciousness, “God Bless America” has attained the composerless status of an anthem or a folk song, but it has roots in Tin Pan Alley.…

  • The Myth of Free Trade, Cont’d. – What is the WTO?

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  • The Myth of Free Trade and Free Market Capitalism

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  • Elysium – Reaganomics on Steroids

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    n the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy, who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Delacourt (Jodie Foster) will stop at nothing to preserve the luxurious lifestyle of the citizens of Elysium — but that doesn’t stop…

  • How Does Emotion Work?

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    Originally posted on The Dish: Shannon Fischer examines the research of Lisa Barrett: [A]s Barrett put it to me, emotion isn’t a simple reflex or a bodily state that’s hard-wired into our DNA, and it’s certainly not universally expressed. It’s a contingent act of perception that makes sense of the information coming in from the world around…

  • How Products Get Named

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    Excerpted from Dr. Ong’s article The Poetry of Brand Naming in Business World On-line: In “Famous Names: Does it matter what a product is called?” (The New Yorker, Oct. 3, 2011), John Colapinto reports that product proliferation has made creative brand-naming a growing necessity. In 1980, fewer than 10,000 hi-tech trademarks were registered in the USA;…

  • Scientific Evidence

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    Originally posted on Ecology is not a dirty word: Here’s an educational piece I had published on “scientific evidence” – that infamous term that so many politicians and corporations throw about, but so few actually explain to their audience! If someone tells us they have scientific evidence to back up their new product or proposed…