When we think of Africa, we think of child soldiers, war lords, famine, poverty, we don’t think of technological progress. Yet that is what’s happening in Nairobi, Kenya, an African version of California’s Silicon Valley. Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer recently visited and IBM recently chose Nairobi as its first African Research lab. Google, Intel, Microsoft and…

A new survey about racial attitudes conducted by researchers from three universities, Stanford, the University of Michigan and Chicago, reveals that they have not improved over the last four years. Slightly over half of all Americans, 51%, expressed attitudes against blacks. In 2008 the percentage was 48. The researchers asked questions to assess both explicit…

When several international clothing firms boycotted cotton from Uzbekistan as a protest against the child labor they were using, the government instead drafted ordinary citizens including medical personnel such as surgeons and nurses. Every year during cotton picking season they are to report to the given rural areas and have to meet their quota: pick…