OBRA MAESTRA

Money, Power, Wisdom:
September 20, 2009

Before you read any further, let me warn you. This blog post is not typical of what I usually write – and is DEFINITELY NOT for everyone!
If the “existential dilemma” leaves you cold (you lucky dog, you!), or your “search for meaning” rarely surfaces, and (when it does) [...]

Hans Rosling:
Global health expert;
data visionary
© Gapminder Foundation
As a doctor and researcher, Hans Rosling identified a new paralytic disease induced by hunger in rural Africa. Now he looks at the bigger picture of social and economic development with his remarkable trend-revealing software.
Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the [...]

social enterpreneurs
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They put society above self. They use entrepreneurial means to drive social change. These 50 social entrepreneurs are enriching the nation.
Naren Karunakaran

IN THIS STORY:

Who Is A Social Entrepreneur?

What if a million issues found a million crusaders? What if each one of us transformed into a social entrepreneur? What if each one of us [...]

Jimmy Carter via last.fm

Discrimination and abuse wrongly backed by doctrine are damaging society, argues the former US president.
o Jimmy Carter
o CopyrightThe Observer, Sunday 12 July 2009
[...]

Excerpts from
The Mind in the Making by
James Harvey Robinson (June 29, 1863–February 16, 1936) was an American historian.
Robinson was born Bloomington, Illinois. He taught history at the University of Pennsylvania (1891–95) and Columbia University (1895–1919), becoming a full professor in 1895.
In 1919, he was one of the founders of the New School for Social [...]

His Royal Highness Prince Hassan Bin Talal about a new global Mega Project:

“More than 40 years ago the Apollo Space Program was launched to fulfill the
old dream of taking man into outer space. Today, we have a bigger dream, to
restore balance between man and his home planet, Earth. With the political
will, EUMENA countries could now [...]

Public Health Advisory: Mobile Phone-Brain Tumour
Vini G. Khurana, MBBS, BSc(Med), PhD, FRACS
Key messages of this work:
http://www.brain-surgery.us/about_the_author.html
http://www.brain-surgery.us/mobilephone.html
* Mobile phones are convenient and frequently invaluable, yet exposure to their electromagnetic radiation is invisible. Therefore, any danger this exposure poses may be easily dismissed.
* Exposure is long-term and its effects on the body, particularly its electrical organ, [...]

Get Down to Business
Original date of publication (French) June 3d 2009 7:21 | by
JACQUES ATTALI

Contrary to what they want us to
believe, the crisis deepens: in the United
States, all deficits are rising; banks defaulting are worsening, and even if
Wall Street is up, its value is still 40% lower than that of October 2007.
In addition,everyone [...]

Discours de Jacques Chirac
L’Eau pour la Paix –
la Paix pour l’Eau
Summary in French
By Joel Bomane’s
Earth Nest Group
http://www.fondationchirac.eu/eau-pour-paix-13-novembre/
L’eau pour la Paix – La Paix pour l’eau from Fondation Chirac on Vimeo
(Crédit : NEWSPRODMedia Manser)
DROIT UNIVERSEL A [...]

© CNN -December 27, 2007 -(AP)
– The message flickered into Cindy Fleenor’s living room each night: Be faithful in how you live and how you give, the television preachers said, and God will shower you with material riches.
And so the 53-year-old accountant from the Tampa, Florida, area pledged $500 a year to Joyce [...]