Monday,
31 October 2011
Greetings
Upper School Community:
Since
wintery weather seems to have arrived at last, here is a late-October edition
of “Articles of Interest” to warm your reading enjoyment.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Late-October Articles of Interest: 7-Billion of Us, Steve Jobs' Lost Sister, Twitterology, Complete World Knowledge, & Tom Keith
According
to global demographers, sometime today, the world’s population crossed the
7-billion mark for the first time.
The Economist provides an interesting graphic depicting the
guess-timated amount of actual space 7-billion people could occupy, addressing
the larger question, where will we all fit?!?
In A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs, writer Mona Simpson describes the discovery of her famous adoption-separated
brother.
The growth of
“Twitterology” as a new science; fascinating information found by tracking
language and semantics in microblog posts.
And for loyal listeners,
two recent stories from National Public Radio:
Robert Siegel’s conversation with factoid-obsessed funnyman John Hodgman (the “and
I’m a PC” guy from the Mac commercials and Jon Stewart’s “resident expert”)
about publication of the final installment of his trilogy of “complete world
knowledge,” That Is All. Mayan
end-of-days and jock-nerd convergence explained.
Happy reading,
and bring on November!
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