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How I Spend $20 a Month on Unlimited Data, Text and (Int’l) Calls

by David Sasaki | Jan 31, 2013 | English, Technology

There are two commonly held assumptions about cell phone service in Mexico: 1) it’s expensive and 2) pay-as-you-go plans are more expensive than annual contracts, thus causing the poor (who don’t have credit cards for yearly contracts) to pay more. On the...

They Have Returned With Their Secrets Unviolated

by David Sasaki | Oct 20, 2009 | English

All tourists cherish an illusion, of which no amount of experience can ever completely cure them: they imagine that they will find time, in the course of their travels, to do a lot of reading. They see themselves, at the end of a day’s sightseeing or motoring,...

Don't Read This, Take a Walk in the Park

by David Sasaki | Aug 10, 2008 | English

I’m a little bit disappointed. OK, not anymore. But I was. For months now I have been writing posts which summarize and link to other posts from new bloggers from the Rising Voices projects. You see, I am begging you to read what they write, begging you to leave...

Brian Nairn of Elsevier: Medical Training from Text Book to Internet to iPhone

by David Sasaki | Jul 22, 2008 | English

To appreciate just how much access to health information has changed in the past ten years, imagine that you had the same symptoms for appendicitis, but in 1995. Where would you have looked? Well, unless you were very pro-active, you probably didn’t look...

[How To] Learn a Foreign Language for Free

by David Sasaki | Jun 15, 2008 | English

There is just no way around it, the very first step to becoming a global citizen is learning another language. Not only does monolingualism prevent you from communicating with the vast majority of the world’s population; it also prevents you from truly...

[Foolish] Why Didn't I Think of That Earlier?

by David Sasaki | Jan 29, 2008 | Economics, English

I just got back from Centro Comercial Monterrey where I had to pick up a DV Firewire cable in order to transfer some digital video from casette to hard drive. At the store I noticed they were selling iPhones so, out of curiosity, I asked the price. “1,800,000...

[Literacy] Reading Benjamin Franklin's Blog on my iPhone

by David Sasaki | Jan 22, 2008 | English

It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore. Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore....