"Writing in the journal Ecosystems, two Swedish scientists found that a large majority (63 percent) of the 200+ golf courses they studied in the UK 'were found to have ecological values similar to or higher than nature-protected sites” such as forest areas, state parks, and biological preserves. They concluded that “golf courses play an essential role in biodiversity conservation and ecosystems management.'" - apparently the key to saving the environment is golf... many rounds of golf. That said, the article does also get into a bunch of the other challenges relating to biodiversity.
"In His Last Column, Our Miser Offers Priceless Advice: The Key to Saving Money Is Spending Less" ... the Wall Street Journal closed off it's "cheapskate" column by talking about the compromise between spending less (the obvious way to save money) and the happyness and degree of conflict with those around you.
I'm not a big fan of the CRTC's ruling that wireless sucks. Personally I'd put it in the "good enough" category for those who have chosen to live outside urban areas. That said, there are still some fairly large portions of Canada with no wireless access (unless you're talking some sort of bi-directional satellite link). Or are these outside the CRTC's definition of "remote rural"?
Why am I not surprised that this place is in Japan? "The focus of the men's attention -- and of their smartphone cameras -- was a tiny black and white square, a two-dimensional barcode that, thanks to "augmented reality" (AR) software, brought to life the object of their desire.
"Readers of the report are likely to note some strange patterns. Why is it that these people seem only to recover knowledge of such noble past lives? A German who refused to betray his Jewish neighbor during the Holocaust? Where are the people who claim in past lives to have been concentration camp guards or complicit neighbors?"
Seems like a good argument that a fixed limit is rather silly... it would seem that the question should be whether or not it actually impacts your behaviour
"A study of attitudes to technology and career skills conducted by the Victorian Government in 2001 showed that 36 per cent of girls, compared with 16 per cent of boys, found information and communication technologies boring." ... of course than the article takes the let's-redefine-the-discipline approach. That said, it does make some interesting points about the impact of culture on a lot of these views.
"A Frankfort man, being forced to pay child support for a son who was kidnapped by his mother and taken to Poland 10 years ago, has won a key legal ruling in his case. ...The child support division was enforcing a court order from Poland - even though a Cook County judge previously had ruled that Serrano's son was taken unlawfully from this country, he should have custody and he did not owe child support."
The author of Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling (which won Christianity Today's 2009 Book Award for Christianity and Culture) comments on the evangelical bubble of "safe culture," and the problems with that view.
