- Occupy Wall Street Group Looks For Financial System Fixes
Innovative planning “to build a banking system with democratic management, more direct relationships between borrowers and investors and products affordable and attractive to the rich and poor”. - New Statesman – “You should have your tongue ripped out”: the reality of sexist abuse online
Shocking, but essential reading. - Opinion: USAID is foreign policy’s best dollar value – J. Brian Atwood and Henrietta Holsman Fore and M. Peter McPherson and Andrew Natsios – POLITICO.com
– especially democratisation. - NYT: Is Obama Toast?
Nate Silver answers with a definite (and detailed) “maybe”. - Take my money or die
Hugh Pope reviews “We Meant Well: how I helped lose the battle for the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people”. - World Bank eAtlas of Gender
The World Bank’s take. - The Global Gender Gap Report 2011
The World Economic Forum’s take. - 5 Backup Plans That Would Have Changed Modern History | Cracked.com
Re the proposed 1945 US land invasion of Japan: “The Military was so certain things were about to go very badly for U.S. soldiers that 500,000 Purple Hearts were made in preparation, a number so large that the medals have been used to supply every single war since, including Korea, Vietnam, Iraq I and Iraq II, with about 100,000 still left over.” - How to make chocolate icosahedra with numbers on
Decorate your wedding cake with d20s!
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