Muslims More Numerous Than Catholics

VATICAN CITY – Islam has surpassed Roman Catholicism as the world’s largest religion, the Vatican newspaper said Sunday.
“For the first time in history, we are no longer at the top: Muslims have overtaken us,” Monsignor Vittorio Formenti said in an interview with the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano. Formenti compiles the Vatican’s yearbook.
He said that Catholics [...]

The Readability Test

I remember when I was student, one professor asked us to prepare a memo and a speech in view to explain the Law of Large Numbers to… a 10 years old kid.
Both of us believed it was a piece of cake especially for advanced students in econometrics: the subject belongs to the introduction in statistics [...]

Thomas Edison Was Not the First One in Sound Recording

The first (as far as I know) who recorded a sound, is a French.
A group of researchers has succeeded in playing a sound recording of a human voice made in 1860 – 17 years before Thomas Edison invented the phonograph.
Roughly ten seconds in length, the recording is of a person singing “Au clair de la [...]

How It All Began

In ancient Israel, it came to pass that a trader by the name of Abraham Com did take unto himself a young wife by the name of Dot. And Dot Com was a comely woman, broad of shoulder and long of leg. Indeed, she had been called Amazon Dot Com.
She said unto Abraham, her husband, [...]

With Biofuels, "There Will Be Nothing to Eat,"

The increased use of food raw materials for the production of biofuels is endangering the food supply of the world’s population, warned Sunday the boss of Nestle, Peter Brabeck.
“If one wants to cover 20% of the growing need for petroleum products with biofuels, as anticipated, there will be nothing to eat,” said the CEO of [...]

So Strange Domain Names!

During my coffee break and to read something different than the election results here, I was surfing on some Websites including TechCrunch, and I read a post listing new startups supposed to participate on a demo event.
Anyway, I don’t remember the precise address. My point is that some names are totally strange, at least for [...]

Both U.N. Bid Referendums Vetoed

Two referendums took place yesterday alongside the presidential election.
While the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) had proposed a referendum on joining the UN using the name “Taiwan,” the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) initiated its own, asking the nation whether it should seek to “rejoin” the international body using the name “Republic of China” or any other [...]

The New President in Taiwan: M. MA

The KMT sweep back into power after eight years in opposition with an overwhelming victory in yesterday’s fourth direct election for president.
Voting, which took place between 8am and 4pm, was peaceful, with no reports of clashes at the 14,401 polling stations across the nation. And no report of any problem the following day (today), not [...]

Presidential Election in Taiwan

Today is the big day, people above 20 years old been called to chose their new President in Taiwan.
It seems that M. MA Ying-Jeou (KMT candidate) will lead the race against his DPP opponent M. Frank HSIEH, after his party won a lopsided victory in Taiwan’s legislative polls on Jan. 12, with local polls still [...]

Taiwan: The Baby Boss City

Queen D brought Emma to the Baby Boss City, in Pacific Department Store – Taipei.
It is a place to let the kids learn what is to be a model, a 7/11 employee and so on (more than 40 jobs!).
According the employment, kids must even pass a license!
The place provides the “local” money with even a [...]