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The two sides of a world champion
By Lewis Hamilton There are two sides to me. First, the one you see on TV. The competitive, cut throat, hungry racer in me that comes out when I close the visor. When the visor is down I come alive, all my fears, insecurities, and doubts are cast aside and…
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There is always hope
By Greta Thunberg If you ever feel sad or hopeless, just remember that there’s always hope. We have democracy. For instance, there are tens of thousands of newspapers and TV stations.If only a few of them decided to start treating the climate- and ecological crisis like the existential crisis it…
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Welcome to Dollywood
By Erick Moore In 1990, the high school dropout rate for Dolly Parton’s hometown of Sevierville Tennessee was at 34% (Research shows that most kids make up their minds in fifth/sixth grade not to graduate). That year, all fifth and sixth graders from Sevierville were invited by Parton to attend…
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Environmental noise for the multi-tasker
By Steve Lukather Steve Lukather has some comments on the state of the recording business today. Steve was a founding member of Toto, has released solo LP’s and is one of the most successful studio guitarists in history. He has been involved in thousands of records (if a Michael Jackson…
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7 Reasons Every iPhone User Should Be Worried About the App Store’s 30% Tax
By Pavel Durov I hope you all liked the latest Telegram update – our 8th major update this year. This new version of Telegram could have become available to you several days earlier. But it didn’t, because of Apple’s desire to control every mobile app in the world. Few iPhone…
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Americans of all races and classes coming together to fight against racism
By Robert Redford “I have a lot of vivid memories of growing up in Los Angeles in the 1940s, but one in particular keeps coming back to me today, in these troubled times. I remember sitting with my parents — actually, my parents were sitting; I was lying on the…
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Unleash talent
By Steen Albrechtlund A short tale of medieval virtue ethics or why the Beau Geste doctrine is ever so slightly exhausting. Platons most important scolar, Aristoteles, study of character and ethics, is built around the premise that people should achieve an excellent character as a pre-condition for attaining happiness or…
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Second wave prevention
Helsingin Sanomat asks this morning what can be done to prevent a second wave of the coronavirus, especially as Finland begins reopening its borders with the outside world. HS writes that the first wave of the virus largely arrived to Finland through holidaymakers, especially Finns returning home from ski resorts in northern Italy,…
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Ventilation for Covid-19 is a painful intubation
By Alyssa Petroni, nurse, Loyola University Medical Center Here you go folks… for those people who don’t understand what it means to be on a ventilator but want to take the chance of going out without a mask… For starters, it’s NOT an oxygen mask put over the mouth while…
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Meet Ruby Bridges
By Remy Merriex Meet Ruby Bridges, at 6 years old, she was the first Black child to attend an all-White elementary school in the south. For her to attend school her first day, men with guns had to make way through a crowd of grown men and women screaming “nigger”,…
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