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When we’re done with old equipment and other technological devices, we give them to third world countries, usually feeling proud of ourselves for having helped them. Often though we’re not helping them, we’re just being thoughtless. The lack of electricity, spare parts or trained operators often means that technology developed in the US or Europe…

Sometimes a statistic really does what it is meant to do and hits a reader with the reality behind its number. Twenty percent of the world’s population has no access to electricity, and 95% of those live in sub-Saharan Africa. Those of us who live in the West depend on electricity for any number of…

They’ve started something in several cities in Mexico we ought to emulate—Cannabis libraries. In Mexico City the library is in a corner on a lonely shelf labelled Biblioteca Canabica. Regardless of its size and place it contains books providing information for teachers, parents, teens and others to be better informed. It may be more true…