These are my links for June 27th 2009 through July 2nd 2009:
- A Return to Yeomanry – By Phillip Longman | Foreign Policy – Break out your mulching fork: Jeffersonian farmers are back!
- Prime Numbers: Sex Matters – By Malcolm Potts and Martha Campbell | Foreign Policy – Low birthrates aren't the result of economic growth and political stability; they're a prerequisite.
- Think Again: Asia’s Rise – By Minxin Pei | Foreign Policy – Don't believe the hype about the decline of America and the dawn of a new Asian age. It will be many decades before China, India, and the rest of the region take over the world, if they ever do.
- B92 – News – Business & Economy – "Right time for Diaspora to invest" –
- Edge: HOW DOES OUR LANGUAGE SHAPE THE WAY WE THINK? By Lera Boroditsky – "For a long time, the idea that language might shape thought was considered at best untestable and more often simply wrong. Research in my labs at Stanford University and at MIT has helped reopen this question. We have collected data around the world: from China, Greece, Chile, Indonesia, Russia, and Aboriginal Australia. What we have learned is that people who speak different languages do indeed think differently and that even flukes of grammar can profoundly affect how we see the world. Language is a uniquely human gift, central to our experience of being human. Appreciating its role in constructing our mental lives brings us one step closer to understanding the very nature of humanity."
