Things Are Good

Kuwait just had its first election that women could run and vote in, which is more than a little late. Better late than never I guess. Not only did women get the vote (and were 57% of the electorate), the people of Kuwait has send a clear message to their government by electing reformists. There [...]

A judge has ruled that the navy of the United States can no longer use sonar because it harms those creatures of the wet. The judge agreed with environmentalists that the use of SONAR during military procedures can “kill, injure, and disturb many marine species, including marine mammals, in waters surrounding the Hawaiian Islands.”
Sonar is [...]

The United Kingdom is going to make their largest human-made wetland to help endangered birds. Biodiversity is a fantastic thing and needs to be protected, so it is great to see such a large investment in helping birds live. It is also hoped that the wetland will help fish.
“Almost 115 hectares will be flooded at [...]

Nativetext is a great idea for spreading information across languages. THey have a novel “hight-tech” solution to all this needed translating. “Using a new kind of distributed supercomputing, foreign language translation is performed by a network of humans around the world, not machines.”
It’s not fully operational yet, but I can’t until it is.

The great firewall of China is an internet firewall which blocks people living in China from viewing certain websites and content on the internet. For example, if you type in Falun Gong in a search engine (a religious group banned in China) it will not show any content. This is very obviously censorship and completely [...]