Vegetarian’s Nightmare….
aliansary @ February 3, 2010 # No Comment Yet
In honor of Michael Pollan’s (author of In Defense of Food and The Omnivore’s Dilemma) new book Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual, I’d like to share a hilarious poem. VEGETARIAN’S NIGHTMARE by Baxter Black a dissertation on plant’s rights Ladies and diners I make you A shameful, degrading confession. A deed of disgrace in the [...]
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Valentine’s in Economics…
aliansary @ February 11, 2009 # 2 Comments
As Saturday comes, some will be celebrating old friendships over dinner, some may be celebrating a birthday or anniversary but many will be with their loved one. The beauty of relationships is its ability to be translated into any language, including economics. I was introduced to Tim Harford by a professor here at Cambridge. Harford [...]
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The Life of Others…
aliansary @ December 14, 2008 # 2 Comments
We live in a society that is continuously flooded by overly perverted teenage drama movies and in a rare instance hope comes back and really brought me to realize the beauty behind the art of film making. This is to not say that there are not great movies previously produced- The Shawshank Redemption, Crash, Amelie- [...]
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