Kiyoto Saito, a young rice farmer from Kengo, Japan’s Yamagata prefecture, is trying to change people’s perception of agricultural work through his unusual attire. Whether he’s driving a tractor, or is standing up to his knees in the marshy rice fields, Kiyoto is always wearing an elegant suit complete with shirt and tie. Kiyoto’s family…
We’re all tempted to use words that we’re not too familiar with. We throw them around in meetings, e-mails and important documents (such as resumes and client proposals), and they land, like fingernails across a chalkboard, on everyone who has to hear or read them. No matter how talented you are or what you’ve accomplished,…
Today, just for fun, we’re going to go down the rabbit hole of how entertainment and the media manipulate people. Some of this is sheer speculation, some if it is provable fact, and all of it requires that you don your full array of tinfoil. If you want to go even deeper, this book will…
This is a preview to the Era of Wisdom documentary “Toddlers on Adderall: History of “Big Pharma” and the Major Players,” to be released December 28, 2016. Written and directed by Cassius Kamarampi, narrated by Josh Mur. Music by Cassius Kamarampi. (Link to image credits and sources) (Transcript): In our society, we often correlate legality…
Moody’s ratings agency cut Turkey’s sovereign credit rating to junk thus concluding its post-coup review. Late Friday the agency cut Turkey’s long term issuer and senior unsecured bond ratings to non-investment grade Ba1 from Baa3. The downgrade accounted for “the risks related to the country’s sizeable external funding requirements and the weakening in previously supportive…
The brutal killing of a young woman on a busy street in Delhi has sparked outrage across India after CCTV footage of the violent assault showed passersby walking past without intervening. Police have named the victim of the vicious assault as 21-year-old Karuna, who worked as a school teacher, and said she had been previously…
