1. Let’s start off with some great animal photographs. Example below:
This owl is making what I call 'America Face.'
Now I already hear you saying ‘Damn it, Ben. Photos of animals are technically fascinating, but meant for other blogs. Why are you blurring the lines?!”
Great question. No worries, I’m not trying to be the next cheezburger anytime soon. I just wanted to start off nice before we move to something terrible and depressing.
2. I had never heard of Maude Barlow before — here’s the transcript of a speech she made at the recent G20, which I found under the headline “The World Has Divided into Rich and Poor as at No Time in History.”
And what’s the scariest part? Well, try this on for size: “The richest 2% own more than half the household wealth in the world. The richest 10% hold 85% of total global assets and the bottom half of humanity owns less than 1% of the wealth in the world. The three richest men in the world have more money than the poorest 48 countries.”
I checked it out, and as far as I can tell she’s correct. This inequality endangers democracy.
3. Speaking of inequality, here’s why Haitian farmers are boycotting Monsanto seeds.
4. Do you think we need a separation of corporation and state? Check out this proposal for a 28th amendment.
5. So you need a typeface — cool infographic.
6. Earlier I posted about world hunger — well, seeing as I’m a guy who loves solutions way more than problems — here’s a neat article on How To Feed The World.
