Today is: 12 March, 2010
Play a game that teaches you all about food aid distribution. Each mission represents a part of the process of delivering food aid to an area in crisis. The final mission shows you how food aid can help people rebuild their lives in the years following a disaster.
 | The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded]: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century author: Thomas L. Friedman rating:  asin: 0374292795 binding: Hardcover list price: $30.00 USD amazon price: $24.28 USD |
This book is Thomas L. Friedman's account of globalization and how it is has changed the world, or more specifically, how it has changed how business is done around the world.
This isn't a terrible book but it certainly does not deserve the hype and five star reviews I've seen it get elsewhere. Essentially the author has realized that we are increasingly interconnected these days and he picks 10 trends as causes for this interconnectedness. He then proceeds to provide his analysis of what this means economically and politically.
On 31 December, the UK will make a payment of about $83m (?45.5m) to the US and so discharge the last of its loans from World War II from its transatlantic ally. This article discusses the tremendous social and economic consequences of the war, and how we're all still very much affected by it.
Francis Fukuyama's "end of history" thesis ? proposed in a 1989 essay, elaborated in a 1992 book ? was the most influential attempt to make sense of the post-cold-war world. In a new afterword to "The End of History and the Last Man", Fukuyama reflects on how his ideas have survived the tides of criticism and political change.