by Tinker » Wed Feb 16, 2011 7:55 pm
A Samurai manual on how to live rightly in the way of the samurai.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks -Rebecca Skloot
Henrietta Lacks was a woman with a peculiar type of cancer that is essentially immortal, and has been used in the study genomics and cancer research without her consent or her family's knowledge. Her cells are in pretty much every microbiology lab in the world today.
Haiti in the Balance: Why Foreign Aid has Failed and What We Can Do About It. -Terry F. Buss
A very concise history of foreign aid in Haiti and an analysis of all the structural and personal hurdles that have lead to its failure. From local corruption and illiteracy, to predatory foreign aid, to inconsistent funding of programs.
The canary didn't die because this mine is dangerous, it died because it's lazy and wasn't raised with a proper work ethic.