Terry Pratchett - Making Money

( More economics, Discworld style )

Misha Glenny - McMafia

Misha Glenny is a British journalist who in this book writes about globalized organized crime. He has previously covered the wars of former Yugoslavia
( Global gangster economy )

Usually I do not sign any online petitions but recent peculiarities of the government of Prime Minister Brown were a bit too ridiculous ( Read more... )

Again couple of snippets from the News of the Weird .

Progress With Flavors: Researchers at England's University of Birmingham announced in May that they had powered a fuel cell by giving chocolate waste to Escherichia coli bacteria, which converted the sugar into hydrogen. (The bacteria are also expected to produce precious metals from discarded ( Read more... )