http://blog.stickyrice.net An attempt to convey something that can never be adequately expressed. Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:22:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Inglehart-Welzel Cultural Map of the World - including Singapore Traditional - Secular-Rational Values Vs Survival - Self Expression Values This is based on the World Value Survey which included Singapore but the relevant info was not depicted in their published values map. I found the Singapore results here. Singapore: Traditional/Se-cular-rational Values: -.06 Survival/Self-expression Values: -0.16 This ... http://blog.stickyrice.net/archives/2008/cultural-map-of-the-world-including-singapore/ http://blog.stickyrice.net/archives/2008/swan-lake-overdrive/ http://blog.stickyrice.net/archives/2008/video-the-morality-of-stem-cell-research/ Via In Haiti, where three-quarters of the population earns less than $2 a day and one in five children is chronically malnourished, the one business booming amid all the gloom is the selling of patties made of mud, oil and sugar, typically consumed only by the most destitute. “It’s salty and it ... http://blog.stickyrice.net/archives/2008/demand-for-mud-burgers-is-up/ With the advent of e-mail, the role of Post Offices has deminished considerably over time. Solution Proposed: Sell Weed On the plus side, it is expected that the Post Office's amazing ability to drive away customers will help drive down cannabis use. The director of the alcohol and drug service at St Vincent's ... http://blog.stickyrice.net/archives/2008/brilliant-proposal-to-revitalize-post-office/ http://blog.stickyrice.net/archives/2008/robots-in-the-news/ Roger Ebert (of Siskel and Ebert fame) on his life as a young writer... But Borman entered my story in the Illinois Associated Press writing competition, and it won first place in the sportswriting category. That happened in summer of the next year. My dad, Walter, had been diagnosed with lung ... http://blog.stickyrice.net/archives/2008/a-young-ebert/ Great read in The New Yorker Letting Go When I was in fourth grade, my class took a field trip to the American Tobacco plant in nearby Durham, North Carolina. There we witnessed the making of cigarettes and were given free packs to take home to our parents. I tell people this ... http://blog.stickyrice.net/archives/2008/reflections-on-smoking/ Some of the stripes formed when layers of the iceberg melted and refroze. Others were created from the dust and soil picked up when the ice sheet that gave birth to the iceberg was sliding down an Antarctic hillside. The Daily Mail   http://blog.stickyrice.net/archives/2008/striped-icebergs/ Scientists have created a new bacteria by injecting blue-green algae with a set of cellulose-making genes from a non-photosynthetic “vinegar” bacterium, Acetobacter xylinum. The new cyanobacteria produce a relatively pure, gel-like form of cellulose that can be broken down easily into glucose. A newly created microbe produces cellulose that can be ... http://blog.stickyrice.net/archives/2008/new-bacteria-source-for-biofuels/