- A tropical storm has displaced millions in India and Bangladesh. For those that will return home, they’ll most likely find their crops ruined, their homes destroyed, and their farm animals killed.
- Woody Allen, Larry David, the dying of Jewish humor. Fun feature story.
- “Steven Chu, the US Secretary of Energy and a Nobel prize-winning scientist, said yesterday that making roofs and pavements white or light-coloured would help to reduce global warming by both conserving energy and reflecting sunlight back into space. It would, he said, be the equivalent of taking all the cars in the world off the road for 11 years.”
- Many of the minerals (tin, tungsten, tantalum and gold) in your cell phone and in your laptop, among other electronics, were extracted from the mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The war in that central African nation has now left armed militias free to take control of the trade in these “conflict minerals”, making us indirectly complicit in a host of abuses.
- The African Union has recommended the United Nations Security Council impose sanctions on Eritrea for supporting Somali insurgents.
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