Food supply: Serbs eat burgers, not fat!

COMMENT, Serbia — Healthy and delicious serbian food! Serbians eat big meals. Huge meals in fact. Bigger than Americans often!

Yet Serbs are generally fit, healthy and not fat. No obesity problems.

And Serbians even eat Hamburgers, although with a lot less ‘bad stuff’ inside!

Serbians are mostly healthy as a result of the homecooked dishes they eat. With no additives and not from the supermarket. Although, this is changing.

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Mag Nation, magazine innovation

REVIEW, Mag Nation, Melbourne & New Zealand — One of my favorite magazine shops, in late 2007, won a prestigious retail award in Melbourne.

You can often find me browsing the magazines, and occasionally spending more than I planned on European or US magazine titles. I like to support small or independent businesses so I also often grab a coffee here and browse.

Chief Magazineologist (sounds like a 2thinknow title!) for Mag Nation, Sahil Merchant commented:

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Korean & French Green Innovation…?

COMMENT, Korea –A design agency in South Korea exploring new materials have arrived at a new design incorporating green ideas into the design of a shop.

The basis is a French botanist using a light material on the skin of a building, on which various plants can be grown.

From the site:

“Mass Studies was founded in 2003 by Minsuk Cho in Seoul, Korea, as an investigation of architecture in the context of market-privileged culture of mass production and > more

Globalization Propaganda

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VIDEOS, Youtube – Interesting film, unsure of the source. Makes a case for global supply chains and trade, apparently shot in the 1950s, by its appearance. Worth a look even if just to disagree or not!

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Food Price Rises in China

VIDEO, Youtube — Interesting video from YouTube on inflation in everyday prices in China.

The program has a strange (!) name, perhaps due to translation, but this is an interesting video supported by numerous news articles.

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Yahoo & Microsoft Searching for Innovation

COMMENT, USA — There’s a lot of fear and loathing about Microsoft buying Yahoo.

The initial discussion seems to focus on Yahoo as a search offering for Microsoft, to strengthen Microsoft against Google. That won’t deliver value.

Fact is Yahoo has a strong email brand, but few people use yahoo for search. Google is widely used, and mostly returns the best results.

Yahoo & Microsoft merger/takeover is not really a threat to competition as a younger, more powerful > more

Economics can serve families

COMMENT, Global — Confused by Economics? A few politicians are too.

Economics is just theories. This is something not often enough remembered.

“(In the Great leap Forward) Mao launched a large number of large-scale but senseless projects, which achieved little, but took thousands of laborers away from the urgent task of growing food.

“At this time, the most popular economic theory, in both east and west, proposed that for a backward country to develop, it > more

History of Telecommunications

Popular montage video centered around the history of telecommunications.

Originally from a business presentation posted to YouTube, where it’s been popular.

Set to music from the Propellerheads.

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Steel Machines: Modernist Innovation

Interesting video on human ingenuity in inventing machines.

A tribute to the now-almost-gone modernist epoch of the twentieth century.

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Women in Fine Art

The history of women in art. Features a lot of figurative works.

A very popular inspirational viral video on YouTube, Technorati and other social networking sites.

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Australia’s Black Dog: Inflation!

COMMENT, Australia – Inflation is the main challenge to Australian economy.

“It points to the size of the inflation problem that this government inherited from the previous government and it is a challenge this government is determined to meet.

“…In the months of October, November and December Australia had the highest underlying inflation that this country has experienced in 16 years.

“That is a significant problem for the country and … high inflation certainly does put upward pressure on interest > more

Rudd’s Innovation Scorecard to date 8/10

ANALYSIS, Australia – In the first 70 days of Australia’s new leadership, the 2thinknow assessment is that things look promising for innovation under new Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.

The 2thinknow scorecard on Rudd and innovation is an 8 out of 10.

Why?

The main reason, is that unlike some politicians he is actually personally championing change. And it’s not change of ideology or dogma, but the sort of practical change Australia needs.

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Tom Peters on Innovation

VIDEO, YouTube — Tom Peters impassioned plea for innovation and remarkable business.

Well worth a watch for a passionate view on innovation.

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Google on Innovation

VIDEO, Youtube — Presentation by Google CIO Douglas Merrill on Innovation at Google.

Diagnose an undiagnosed problem.

Find a creative solution.

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