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POPSHow did 100,000,000 women disappear? Two researchers crunching population statistics have confirmed an unsettling reality. Siwan Anderson and Debraj Ray noticed the ratio of women to men in developing regions and in some cultures is suspiciously below the norm.
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POPSThe Best Way to Control the Masses Remember FDR’s words: “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.” When the Shadow Powers determine the choices available to us they control us. Sure it’s subtle. You bet it’s effective. And we all think we’re free.
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POPSTwo doctors in Saudi Arabia want to change cultural attitudes to female genital mutilation In Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia and Mali, for example, more than 80% of women have undergone FGM. Typically, the procedure is carried out by a Daya (an elderly female birth attendant) when a baby girl is a few days old, but it can be done at any time during childhood, adolescence, before marriage or during a first pregnancy. The scope of the operation – which is often carried out in non-sterile conditions using household implements – can vary considerably from removing the clitoris to cutting away all of the woman's external genitalia before stitching the wound back together leaving only a tiny hole for menstruation and urination." yes it still exists.
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POPSStudy Of Countries I do not claim that sites such as this are the be all and end all of research regarding any given country. But still they are fairly comprehensive. If any given country or nation intrigues you then I recommend further research. If this site creates a even greater thirst for knowledge then I will have done something useful.
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POPSChild Marriage A very good resource on the worldwide prevalence of child marriage. Source also has a section containing stories of young girls who went through this....
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POPSUm, Kenya? You guys OK? Finishing fourth in the men's category was another American, Ryan Hall. Hall, 27, is a rising star on the world running circuit and made headlines last year by running the London marathon in a stunning 2:06:17. Americans once dominated long-distance running, bringing home consecutive gold medals from 1970-82. Marathon legend Bill Rodgers won the New York City four years in a row from 1976 to 1979, and Alberto Salazar took walked away with successive victories from 1980-82. The marathon, which began in 1970 with a mere 127 runners, now hosts 38,000 athletes from around the globe, according to the marathon's Web site. Known for its diverse, punishing terrain, the annual event spans all five of New York's City's boroughs, finishing in the heart of Central Park. Keflezighi and Tulu will each receive $130,000 in prize money.
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POPSLucy, the oldest hominid skeleton When we were at the museum visiting Body Worlds 2, volunteers were making plaster molds of dinosaur teeth and other interesting things. We picked up a cast of Lucy's footprint. My daughter is taking it for show and tell today. In preparation I looked up some facts on Lucy. I had no idea she was so tiny. She is shorter than my 5-year-old! Her footprint is so twee.
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POPSHistory of Coffee Austin's clipping brought to you by: COFFEE! It is my firm belief that coffee is at the root of all modern western scholarship.
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POPS2009 World Food Prize awarded to Ethiopian Scientist
Born in 1950, Gebisa Ejeta grew up in a one-room thatched hut with a mud floor, in a rural village in west-central Ethiopia. Walking 20 kilometers every Sunday night to attend school during the week Ejeta’s high academic standing earned him financial assistance and entrance to the secondary-level Jimma Agricultural and Technical School, which had been established by Oklahoma State University under the U.S. government’s Point Four Program. After graduating with distinction, Ejeta entered Alemaya College (also established by OSU and supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development) in eastern Ethiopia. He received his bachelor’s degree in plant science in 1973. In 1973, his college mentor introduced Ejeta to a renowned sorghum researcher, Dr. John Axtell of Purdue University, who invited him to assist in collecting sorghum species from around the country Ejeta entered Purdue in 1974, earning his Ph.D. in plant breeding and genetics. Alot more good reading at t
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POPSNext major drought in Africa will slay millions Study: over the last 3,000 years, severe drought every 30 to 65 years; no reason to assume it won't happen again soon. With increase in population, death tolls of the next could be in the millions, unless the world prepares.
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POPSFaces from Africa Some faces featured in the book "Faces of Africa" by C Beckwith & A Fisher which I have just taken out of the library. It's a stunning book about a stunning continent and its equally stunning people.
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POPSIn the Name of Trees They all have meaning. That's why these pictures are even more beautiful ! If you want to know the meaning, please visit http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1731606,00.html
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POPSClues to our shared humanity An unexpected delight from this summer’s TEDGlobal was a remarkable tale of discovery from paleoanthropologist Zeresenay Alemseged, who made headlines worldwide when he unearthed "Selam," a 3-year-old girl who died 3.3 million years ago. Technically a member of the hominid species, Australopithecus afarensis, Selam was still chimp-like in some respects. But Alemseged shows how she represents the beginnings of humanity: She could walk, her brain was growing, and she had the tools -- if not yet the ability -- to talk. As the bones of her relative, "Lucy," begin their controversial US tour
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