Society
It’s Time for Every Brand to Pick a Side time w!
Five weeks into Donald Trump's Administration, and at a time when expressing cultural values can end decades-long relationships in the time it takes to post 140 characters, consumers and employees are looking for new ways to be heard, represented and served. They’re increasingly voting with their voices, their choices and their wallets. Brands need to take heed, or pay the consequences.
Sex-selective abortions should be allowed, British Medical Association ethics expert says telegraph.co.uk
Prof Wendy Savage, a voting member of the British Medical Association Council bma.org.uk, also said women should have the right to terminate a pregnancy at any stage.
Brexit
Brexit explained: What’s next on the UK’s road out of the EU washingtonpost
The British government announced Monday that it will formally begin its exit from the European Union on March 29. Prime Minister Theresa May will invoke Article 50 of the key EU treaty, the official start of the two-year divorce process.
If you remember (for those of us on this side of the pond), the UK voted to "Brexit" several months ago. Since then there's been a lot of internal squabbling between politicians ranging from people quitting to others being fired to just general nastiness all around. I've avoided posting most of that here as "what's that to us?" Anyway, looks like they are finally going to pull the trigger and begin separating from the EU. This article is a good summary of what that means, and how the process might look.
Israel-Syria
'Israel Will Not Hesitate to Destroy Syrian Air Defenses' jpost
“You have to understand the context; if we strike there is a real reason for it,” the defense minister said during a visit to the Meitav IDF Induction Center at Tel Hashomer in Ramat Gan.
“We have no interest in intervening in the civil war in Syria, either in favor of or against Assad. We do not want to clash with the Russians. Our main issue is with the transfer of advanced weaponry from Syria to Lebanon, and so whenever we detect an attempt to smuggle weapons, we will act to prevent it. We will not compromise on this issue,” he said.
North Korea
North Korea’s Test of Rocket Engine Shows ‘Meaningful Progress,’ South Says nytimes
North Korea said on Sunday that it had conducted a ground jet test of a newly developed high-thrust missile engine, which its leader, Kim Jong-un, called “a great event of historic significance.” Using the characteristic bombast of such announcements, he said that the test heralded “a new birth” of the country’s rocket industry and that “the whole world will soon witness what eventful significance the great victory won today carries.”
Tech
Interactive Shoes Hub by Fujitsu blog.adafruit v
Fujitsu fujitsu has been partnering with multiple Universities and a design company to start a platform for the future of shoes. While we have traditionally been wearing fitness trackers on our wrists this new shoe platform is exploring the man-machine relationship of getting data from our feet.
Books
Paperback fighter: sales of physical books now outperform digital titles theguardian
...the ebook story has turned out to have a twist in the tale. Sales of physical books increased 4% in the UK last year while ebook sales shrank by the same amount. Glance around a busy train carriage and those passengers who aren’t on their phones are far more likely to have a paperback than a Kindle.
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