by David Sasaki | Nov 3, 2010 | English
I’m in Central America for the next two weeks to try to better understand a new phenomenon — the rise of small, online, non-profit, investigative journalism projects. They tend to be led by the giants of Latin American journalism who over the decades have...
by David Sasaki | Jun 12, 2009 | English
Seven Billion Brains on Planet Earth Every morning we – all seven billion of us – wake up with a certain amount of cognitive energy, our mental fuel tank for the day to come. We use up this cognitive energy every time our brain must process information and...
by David Sasaki | Oct 4, 2008 | Book Review, English
Thinking back on it, I’m not sure I really learned anything new – not in terms of ideas nor anecdotes – from Here Comes Everybody. And yet I’ll probably end up buying copies for both sets of my grandparents and anyone else I care about who...
by David Sasaki | Oct 11, 2006 | English
Not long ago, UTNE Reader had a fantastic issue dedicated solely to the oppression of choice. “Too much choice” was an argument against Bush’s social security reform. (Giving Americans a choice in how they invest their social security would cause...