Why Money Isn’t Everything – Home | Ideas with Paul Kennedy | CBC Radio
The world over, alternative currencies are helping societies solve key issues. In Japan, volunteers earn redeemable friendship tokens when they care for the elderly. In Brazil, one city's garbage crisis disappeared when it gave people bus tokens for their trash. We're also hearing about Toronto's tool library and workshop space. Sheetal Lodhia explores how healthy communities can be built without money.
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Rear-View Mirror: Tom Waits misunderstood masterpiece on CBC Music
Source: Rear-View Mirror: Tom Waits misunderstood masterpiece on CBC Music
‘Substantial’ El Nino event predicted – BBC News
The El Nino weather pattern, which can drive droughts and flooding, is underway in the tropical Pacific for the first time in five years, say scientists.
Why Elizabeth May’s speech to the press gallery is the least of her concerns
Paul Wells explains why the Green Party leader's weekend outing is the least of her problems
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Elizabeth May apologizes for bizarre press gallery dinner speech | Toronto Star
Green Party leader said her rambling comments, ending with praise for Omar Khadr, followed a gruelling trip that left her “overtired” and ill-prepared to be funny.
Source: Elizabeth May apologizes for bizarre press gallery dinner speech | Toronto Star
Elon Musk Says Self-Driving Tesla Cars Will Be in the U.S. by Summer – NYTimes.com
The automaker’s chief executive says a software update will allow the Model S to navigate highways without the driver’s touching the wheel or pedals. But is it legal?
Source: Elon Musk Says Self-Driving Tesla Cars Will Be in the U.S. by Summer - NYTimes.com
The mud-wrestler no-one wanted to touch – BBC News
Wrestling is popular across India, and in Maharashtra many poor farming families train at least one son in maati kushti, or mud-wrestling, hoping it will provide an escape from poverty.
Triumph of the Unthinking – NYTimes.com
It is easier to appeal to voters with nonsense economics than to think things through.
Tom Brady Probably Knew Footballs Were Doctored, N.F.L. Finds – NYTimes.com
Ted Wells’s report, released on Wednesday, found that “it is more probable than not” that Patriots personnel deflated the footballs in the A.F.C. championship game to gain an edge.
Source: Tom Brady Probably Knew Footballs Were Doctored, N.F.L. Finds - NYTimes.com
Under the Sea, a Missing Link in the Evolution of Complex Cells – NYTimes.com
The business of swallowing organisms as a source of energy (discussed below) seems similar to corporations swallowing up workers and consumers in evolutionary adventures.
A number of researchers have proposed that the ancestors of eukaryotes swallowed up free-living bacteria. The bacteria became mitochondria, providing fuel for their host cell.
Scientists have discovered microbes that have many — but not all — of the features previously only found in eukaryotes.
Source: Under the Sea, a Missing Link in the Evolution of Complex Cells - NYTimes.com