by Tom | Oct 25, 2011 | Reading
Demography: A tale of three islands | The Economist. Who’d have thought one could learn so much about demography. Despite the exponential chart, would you have guessed that 3.2 billion people live in countries with a fertility rate of 2.1 or less and that...
by Tom | Oct 25, 2011 | Business
Economics of open-access publishing makes the extraordinary claim that the profits (note: not turnover) of the publishing arms of two firms (Elsevier and Springer’s) would be enough to pay to publish (including editing and peer review) all the 1.5 million...
by Tom | Oct 24, 2011 | Hong Kong / China, Personal
Came out of the cathedral hall after rehearsing Christmas music to find a heavy metallish jam going on at Occupy under HSBC. Nice.
by Tom | Oct 24, 2011 | Business, Government, Reading
Class. 11. Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings ignoring or even taunting people standing outside shouting at them turns out to be a story with an unhappy ending. via by Lemony Snicket – OccupyWriters.com.
by Tom | Oct 24, 2011 | Reading
Hiromitsu Shinkawa and the Japan Tsunami Rescue Story: GQ. Remarkable and moving story of the man who survived three days on the roof of his house after the Japan earthquake and tsunami. That’s enough reading for this week.
