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POPSIs Big Pharma Saving The LIves Of The Poor? I have often commented on the greed of Big Pharma. But, came across this article which tells a story of how a Dr. Curtis, an anthropologist , living in African, wanted to save lives by trying to change habits that induce disease to routines of prevention. As in, washing hands after each toilet use. Easier said than done because an often unconscious pattern of behavior acquired through frequent repetition is what makes you, you. So how can an entity go about changing unconscious unhealthy responses into ones that can save lives? Well, by seeking the help of the very industries that have for years spent billions of cash on manipulating the public and convincing them they cannot live without their products, in other words, changing habits. Makes sense, Big Pharma is good at it and perhaps, indirectly, all they have learned to part us from our $$$ can now be of benefit to those who are dying simply because of bad habits. :lol:
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POPSFlip for Video I've been using a Flip for the last 9 months and have found it to be the most flexible and efficient way of capturing short video interviews and on-the-spot snippets. It ain't fancy but it gets you there--at a great price.
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POPSConsumer Addiction and Unhappiness <<<Sally Erickson reminds us, the patterns of behavior endemic to consumer society are so much more dangerous than substance abuse, because they are perpetuating a culture that is literally eating itself out of house and home. If addicts define insanity as doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results, this may be the clearest sign yet that consumerism is driving us all crazy.>>>
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POPSPeople wary of advertisers' "interest" With the increased ability to track and monitor people we are coming dangerously close to the advertisers' nirvana, which is to know everything there is to know about your behavior as a buyer. Technology is not yet able to reach and interpret the deeper recesses of your mind, but that will come too... Perhaps a good reason for people to be increasingly concerned about the "interest" shown by advertisers for them...
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POPSSin by any other name Interesting how culture changes ones perspective. The things the bible calls sin does not seem to make the top 10 list. I guess the reason for that is most churches do not preach about sin anymore. So then society is left to it's own devises to come up with respectable behavior.
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POPSBlue Monday? I'm inclined to agree with what the internet trends indicate. I know for me that the time period from mid-November on through the end of the year is always the most depressing time of the year for me. Damn holidays. As for the things Dr. Arnall points out in his formula, I don't let them get to me much. Sure here in Michigan the weather in January can get nasty, but on the flip side I'm too in awe of nature to view extreme weather conditions as entirely bad. Failed New Year's resolutions? The last New Year's resolution I made was about ten years ago when I resolved to never make another New Year's resolution. That's the only resolution I've ever kept. And as for the debt from holiday spending, an old friend of mine once said "If you're not in debt, you're un-American." There's a sad truth to that... and because of that truth, debt doesn't bother me anymore. The only debts that bother me are the debts owed to me ;-).
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POPSEvonomics Evolution and economics are not just analogous to each other, but they are actually two forms of a larger phenomenon called complex adaptive systems, in which individual elements, parts or agents interact, then process information and adapt their behavior to changing conditions. Immune systems, ecosystems, language, the law and the Internet are all examples of complex adaptive
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