Interesting links (got hundreds more still unread in my Reader collection...oh my):

• Finding work (with a little help from friends)
• Millionaires in Singapore
• Make a Mod Stacked Necklace
• Tiger, Jetstar among Changi's top passenger airlines
  
• Trajan is the Movie Font

Get Rid Of Phlegm And Mucus - How To Loosen Up Phlegm And Relief Cough

• David Willets opens up market for student places
• Universities: a half-baked Ivy League that spells two tiers of unfairness
• What universities think of competing for their admissions

(All from The Guardian)

• DUN DUN DUN: SIA is now the second-best airline in the world...after Qatar Airways (Apparently SIA lost out because of its Economy class and I'm wondering if this has anything to do with high-yield strategies and/or SIA's new budget airline plan hmm.)
• Most data traffic here goes through iPhones and iPads (Should we start looking at structural ( Read more... )

I'm midway through figuring out this puzzle from BCG - very, very slowly, that is. But it's interesting!

Two friends, whom we will call Arthur and Robert, were museum curators. Both were born in the month of May, one in 1932 and the other a year later. Each was in charge of a beautiful antique clock. Both of the clocks worked pretty well, ( Read more... )

...waitaminute, one of my textbooks is a crime novel?!

As if the case of the 17-year old Chinese selling his kidney for an iPad wasn't weird enough...Jake Linford, a young professor at Florida State University Law School, advocates for scholarships for kidney donations. According to his plan, give a kidney and get a full scholarship. No loans or owing the banks with that proposal. (Source)
I don't get ( Read more... )

In an attempt to confront parents, and the teaching profession, with the scale of the challenge, [Michael Gove] will point out that in Singapore about 80% of pupils achieve at least a C in English and maths O-levels.

In Britain, by contrast, about one-third of pupils do not achieve basic levels in English and maths at 11, and only half achieve at ( Read more... )

Scientists have been creating new elements since 1940, when neptunium and plutonium were first forged at the University of California, Berkeley. As more elements have been created, a pattern emerged: Each new element was radioactive, slightly heavier than the one before, and in general, more unstable.

Source: Two New Elements Added to Chemistry' ( Read more... )

The German Example - Economic Scene - NYTimes.com

My German bias naturally draws me to articles like this. But I also wonder how the German government strives to be prudent without putting major dents in its public image. Do German gripe over, say, high retirement ages too? How do Germans strike a balance?

Time to get some clothes ironed.