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Malek Jandali Believes in the Creative Power of the People of Homs
Pianist and composer Malek Jandali says if Syria manages to free itself from dictatorship, it will once again create and innovate as it once did.
Earworms … Eeeewwww!!!
I can’t remember when or where I first came across the word ‘earworm,’ but I can never forget the first time I used the word in this newsroom [...]
New Anti-Corruption Ruling in India
India’s Supreme Court has canceled 122 telecommunications licenses awarded to companies in 2008. The ruling is the latest chapter in a long-running corruption drama in India.
Cartoon: Facebook Going Public
Dutch cartoonist Tom Janssen uses a familiar emoticon to show how Facebook (the company) is probably feeling about the upcoming IPO.
Apple, Human Rights, and Us
The concerns have been mounting for years, but suddenly, with last week’s blockbuster NY Times series on Apple’s supply chain, the question is on everyone’s lips: have the defining consumer products of our time been created at an intolerable human and environmental cost?
Out of Work Spaniards Flock to Germany, Confront Cultural Divide
A growing number of Spaniards are getting obsessed with Germany and its image as a worker’s paradise. Those who go learn quickly that while you may earn more in Germany you also pay more in taxes – and that everybody actually pays [...]
Macabre Questions
Ruud Verberne is the first to admit that he can be a real downer at parties. “You tell people what you do,” he says, “and they think…well, that’s a bit strange” [..]
A Return to Pakistan and Patience
Flying into Islamabad in the middle of the night, I braced myself for the upcoming rituals of customs and baggage. “Patience,” I kept repeating to myself, as I descended the steps from the plane and onto a bus crowded with other passengers, including a lot of sleepy children [...]
Composer Mohammed Fairouz’s Orchestral Take on the Tahrir Square Uprising
Wednesday marks the anniversary of the start of the Egyptian uprising in Tahrir Square. Arab American composer, Mohammed Fairouz, who’s writing a concerto called “Tahrir for Clarinet and Orchestra.”
Balance Tips to China’s Cities
China has passed a milestone, that more Chinese now live in cities than in rural areas. This sounds impressive from one angle, that just over 10% of Chinese lived in cities when the Communist Party came to power in 1949, and not quite 19% when economic reforms started in 1979. [...]
Show Producer’s Blog: Newsroom Hubbub
Susan Cain’s New York Times op-ed “The Rise of the New Groupthink” makes me think a lot about the way we work here at The World. We have an open plan newsroom [...]
Conductor Martin Pearlman Remembers Gustav Leonhardt
Dutch master harpsichordist Gustav Leonhardt, died at his home in Amsterdam at the age of 83, on January 16. Leonhardt was a pioneer of the Baroque music revival. He was a scholar, teacher and conductor. In the 1950s and 60s, at a time when musicians and classical music lovers paid rare attention to the Baroque repertoire [...]
Show Producer’s Blog: Debating Foreign Policy
Last week I blogged about Syria and the R2P or the doctrine of “Responsibility to Protect.” What should the international community do in the case of a government like Syria’s, which is killing its own citizens? [...]
Wall Posters in Ultra-Orthodox Neighborhood
Here is a photo I took of several wall posters in an Ultra-Orthodox neighborhood accusing the Israeli government of trying to wipe out Judaism.
No, Sir, Google and the CIA Are Not the Same
Wednesday, I interviewed Wael Ghonim (wah-ELL go-NEEM), author of the just published Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power, and the man who steered the Egyptian revolution on Facebook.
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