Sunday, February 26, 2012
Monday, February 20, 2012
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
NOVA | World in the Balance | Material World | PBS
NOVA | World in the Balance | Material World | PBS
India: The Yadev Family
At age 25, Mashre Yadev is already mother to four children, the oldest of whom was born when she was 17. Each morning at their home in rural Uttar Pradesh, she draws water from a well so that her older children can wash before school. She cooks over a wood fire in a windowless, six-by-nine-foot kitchen, and such labor-intensive domestic work keeps her busy from dawn to dusk. Her husband Bachau, 32, works roughly 56 hours a week, when he can find work. In rough times, family members have gone more than two weeks with little food. Everything they own—including two beds, three bags of rice, a broken bicycle, and their most cherished belonging, a print of Hindu gods—appears in this photograph.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Twitter is harder to resist than cigarettes and alcohol, study finds | Science | The Guardian
Twitter is harder to resist than cigarettes and alcohol, study finds | Science | The Guardian
Tweeting or checking emails may be harder to resist than cigarettes and alcohol, according to researchers who tried to measure how well people could resist their desires.
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Friday, January 27, 2012
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Apple’s iPad and the Human Costs for Workers in China - NYTimes.com
Apple’s iPad and the Human Costs for Workers in China - NYTimes.com
Employees work excessive overtime, in some cases seven days a week, and live in crowded dorms. Some say they stand so long that their legs swell until they can hardly walk. Under-age workers have helped build Apple’s products, and the company’s suppliers have improperly disposed of hazardous waste and falsified records, according to company reports and advocacy groups that, within China, are often considered reliable, independent monitors.
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