Have a wonderful Easter weekend!
1. Rewriting the story of polarized debate: He got Tea Party and Occupy to talk
Nabil Laoudji's Mantle Project puts citizens on stage to tell stories of the experiences that led them to their positions on tough issues. That's how he got members of the Tea Party and Occupy movement to speak on the same stage in a civil – and entertaining – exchange.
2. Next Reformation presents Barna's six reasons young Christians leave the church.
3. Forbes: The Happiest And Unhappiest Jobs In America
4. Mozambique: From Marxism to market
British journalist Paul Fauvet came to Mozambique in 1980 just as the country was plunged into a civil war. He has witnessed every key event since. Here he describes the transformation of his adopted country from revolutionary Marxist state to embracing the market and the exploitation of its resource riches.
5. Poor Americans Are Driving The Evolution Of The Banking System
We've reported on how people in emerging markets residents are opening bank accounts and paying for things with their mobile phones
, transforming business in those countries.
But the US Federal Reserve would like you to know (pdf) that the changes aren't all in other parts of the world.
Poor people in the US are some of the most avid users of mobile banking and mobile payment systems. ...
6. One In Four Teens Plan On Relying On Mom And Dad Till Age 27
7. Gen Y Isn't The 'Entrepreneurship Generation'
We all keep hearing that Gen Y's are the "entrepreneurship generation," but new research states otherwise. I worked with Monster.com on a new study focused on multi-generational worker attitudes to uncover the state of entrepreneurship through the eyes of different generations of workers. The report found that 41% of Gen X employees (ages 30-49) and 45% of Boomers (ages 50-69) consider themselves to be more entrepreneurial, compared to only 32% of Gen Y workers (ages 18-29 years). ...
8. Work Is More Than a Means to Evangelism
As already discussed, Matthew Lee Anderson's recent Christianity Today cover story on "radical Christianity" has been making waves. This week at The High Calling, Marcus Goodyear offers a healthy critique of one of Anderson's key subjects, David Platt, aligning quite closely with Anderson's analysis about the ultimate challenges such movements face when it comes to long-term cultural cultivation.
Focusing on Platt's latest book, Follow Me, Goodyear notes that, despite Platt's admirable efforts to get Christians "off their seats," he often "emphasizes the great commission so much, it overshadows all other teachings of the Bible."...
9. I don't know if I'm convinced, but here are The 21 Principles of Persuasion from Forbes.
10. Mental Floss with a great list of 30 Things Turning 30 This Year.
11. Few People Understand The Difference Between Risk And Genuine Uncertainty
What are the odds that your new idea will succeed? If it does, what will the return to you be?
One of the problems that we have in business (and life!) is that we often can't know the answer to questions like this in advance. And this drives us nuts. Consequently, a lot of people invest a great deal of effort into reducing uncertainty. There are two problems with this approach. The first is that we often don't understand uncertainty very well, and the second is that profitably opportunities only exist where outcomes are genuinely uncertain. ...
12. Christopher Hitchens wants to know Has militant atheism become a religion?
... In my interactions with religious and nonreligious people alike, I now draw a sharp line, based not on what exactly they believe but on their level of dogmatism. I consider dogmatism a far greater threat than religion per se. I am particularly curious why anyone would drop religion while retaining the blinkers sometimes associated with it. Why are the "neo-atheists" of today so obsessed with God's nonexistence that they go on media rampages, wear T-shirts proclaiming their absence of belief, or call for a militant atheism? What does atheism have to offer that's worth fighting for? As one philosopher put it, being a militant atheist is like "sleeping furiously."...
13. Econbrowser has a detailed analysis of Declining U.S. carbon dioxide emissions.
14. David Shukman wants to know Why such a fuss about extinction?
What is wrong with extinction? I realise this question is the conservation equivalent of a landmine - or an elephant trap. And that it is likely to ruffle a lot of fur.
But I ask because I am merely wondering whether we sometimes forget a grim reality of the story of life on Earth - that extinction has always been with us.
In fact, it has quite often been good for us. ...
15. Is Google Maps Changing Our Behavior?
... The people who used the digital navigation device demonstrated pretty good route recognition and rather poor survey knowledge. By comparison, the paper map users scored better on the survey test and almost perfect on the route test. What's happening here, Münzer and colleagues argue, is that pedestrians who use computer navigation fail to envision, encode, and memorize the cognitive maps they otherwise would have. The cost of convenience, in other words, is spatial orientation. ...
16. 18 obsolete words, which never should have gone out of style
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