- During the Foxconn suicide epidemic, several media outlets said the suicide rate was lower than expected. “Members of the media have been killing off their own credibility at an alarming rate.”
- Fascinating blog about quality control in China. “Factory workers are paid by the number of pieces they make. Sometimes they see they are working on defective goods, but they keep working instead of sending the bad pieces back to the previous operation.”
- The unsustainability of higher education.
- the Dear Abby of math problems. “The next bubble to burst is higher education. . . . It’s too much one-size-fits-all.” And that one size fits the professor.
- BBC radio documentaries
- Raw food leaders no longer raw or vegan
Thanks to Alex Chernavsky.
Here’s more about problems in higher education (from today’s New York Times):
“Share of College Spending for Recreation Is Rising”
You realize that The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs is a prank site, don’t you? The suicide article is a satire, written as though by Steve Jobs.
I crunched the suicide numbers myself (using the unerring Wikipedia article on national suicide rates), and convinced myself that the Foxconn suicides were within normal range.