Reading Suggestions: Day 164

Reading Suggestions: Day 164

Recommendation 1 from ‘The Hindu’ Article Name:‘ Knowing your onions in New York’ By: P Sainath The entire U.S. agrarian structure and policy is geared towards serving the corporate sector and against small family farms. Summary: This is a fascinating piece, it...
Reading Suggestions: Day 163

Reading Suggestions: Day 163

Recommendation 1 from ‘The Guardian’ Article Name:‘Happy 20th birthday, SMS’ By: Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett It allowed us to be as smutty, sweary or slangy as we liked, with no adult interference – but now it’s on the decline. Summary: Yup, you got it right,...
Reading Suggestions: Day 162

Reading Suggestions: Day 162

Recommendation 1 from ‘Idea times’ Article Name:‘Voyager 1 leaves for infinity’ By: Jeffrey Kluger Reasons why out-of-school suspensions don’t work are fairly obvious. Giving students what amounts to a free day or two off doesn’t actually feel like punishment...
Reading Suggestions: Day 163

Reading Suggestions: Day 161

Recommendation 1 from ‘Science time’ Article Name:‘Carbon Pollution up to 2 million pounds a second’ By: SETH BORENSTEIN Three years ago, nearly 200 nations set the 2-degree temperature goal in a nonbinding agreement. Negotiators now at a conference under way in...
Reading Suggestions: Day 163

Reading Suggestions: Day 160

Recommendation 1 from ‘Fox News’ Article Name:‘A generation of deluded narcissists’ By: Dr. Keith Ablow On Facebook, young people can fool themselves into thinking they have hundreds or thousands of “friends.” They can delete unflattering comments. They can...
Reading Suggestions: Day 159

Reading Suggestions: Day 159

Recommendation 1 from ‘CNN International’ Article Name:‘The challenges of being a woman in India’ By: Sumnima Udas From the time they are born — or not born — and continuing till late in life when they become wives or mothers, it’s a vicious...