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Vietnamese has a saying “Tha Phuong Cau Thuc” which means, go any distance for a job. I did that a few years back, with English Teaching certification in Hanoi, and real classroom hours in the South. On the way back to the US, I ran into some young Vietnamese in transit airport, presumably on their way out…
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Future companies will exist for only one reason: to be curators of all that is out there and to let their fan base know about them (Amazon). To be selective is to prejudge, a priori. And to prejudge, as social animals, we rely on our subconscious. As David Brooks puts it, “it’ s a loop”. Before…
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I am referring to Dr Rustum Roy of Penn State whom I met almost 4 decades ago. I knew then just as I know now that he was ahead of his time. He pushed for integrated studies in Science, Technology and Society. He showed up at a demo of hologram which is now being worked…
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14 Vietnamese women were found and freed from Baby101, a Taiwanese outfit operated outside of the law in Thailand. They were paid to be surrogate mothers (artificial insemination or otherwise), whose future babies would be put up for adoption. Baby, never let me go. Newsweek has a piece about anonymousUS.org, an organization which seeks to organize…
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Back in September of 2008, the first of the Trilogy (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) provided us with a perfect literary escape: exotic, foreign yet so close to home. She managed to play with fire and rose from the grave to finally “kick the hornet’s nest”. What a catharsis! You look at the two columns,…
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http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2011/0202/South-Korean-film-director-debuts-his-latest-big-screen-tool-the-iPhone 33-min film, using I-Phone in place of Steady Cam. Viewers said they couldn’t tell the difference. All digital. The smallest camera back in the late 60’s was the 8-mm video cam. ENG crew used TK-76 with battery pack and tape deck as accessories. With the light on top, you talk about hauling more than…
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People in Northern Vietnam scrambled inside a purportedly sacred Temple after Lunar New Year to seek favor from the gods. Last year, in Cambodia, a similar occasion resulted in stampede and hundreds of deaths on the bridge. In seeking grace, they found their graves. Our bio-tech century offers different versions for health and happiness. We…
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I read today about 10 jobs that did not exist a decade ago. http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/111973/jobs-that-didnt-exist-10-years-ago It quickly came to mind jobs that are now gone, for good: Telephone switchboard operators Gas station attendants (who used to wipe our windshields and check the oil) One-hour photo clerk (Remember Robin Williams?) Milkman, mailman, newspaper boy (fewer jobs) Typist…
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The protesters in Cairo said that their fingers got tired from tweeting. They should be thankful that Twitter only allows 140 characters per tweet. Think of the scribes, who had to copy down tons of papyrus in ancient Egypt. For now, young people just want to celebrate:” let’s tweet again”. They tried back-up node and…
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