ニュースの面では、Economist 誌が毎年やっている、クリスマスまでのカウントダウン も年末の風物詩。今年多く読まれた Daily Chart を一日1つずつ振り返り、クリスマス当日には今年一番の人気記事を発表するという趣旨だ。
Daily Chart 自体、毎回興味深く読んでいるだけに、一年分の記事をまとめて振り返ることができるこの企画は、僕が毎回楽しみにしている、年末の恒例行事ともなっている。
2013/12/02(月) | News | トラックバック(0) | コメント(0)
2013/12/02(月) | News | トラックバック(0) | コメント(0)
World Toilet Day is a UN recognized event, observed annually on 19 November. This international day of action aims to break the taboo around toilets and draw attention to the global sanitation challenge.
Can you imagine not having a toilet? Can you imagine not having privacy when you need to relieve yourself? Although unthinkable for those living in wealthy parts of the world, this is a harsh reality for many – in fact, one in three people on this globe does not have access to a toilet! Have you ever thought about the true meaning of dignity?
World Toilet Day was created to pose exactly these kind of questions and to raise global awareness of the daily struggle for proper sanitation that a staggering 2.5 billion people face. World Toilet Day brings together different groups such as media, the private sector, development organisations and civil society in a global movement to advocate for safe toilets. Since its inception in 2001, World Toilet Day has become an important platform to demand action from governments and to reach out to wider audiences by showing that toilets can be fun and sexy as well as vital to life.
World Toilet Day is not just about toilet humor, or an attempt to make toilets sexy. World Toilet Day has a serious purpose: it aims to stimulate dialogue about sanitation and break the taboo that still surrounds this issue. In addition, it supports advocacy that highlights the profound impact of the sanitation crisis in a rigorous manner, and seeks to bring to the forefront the health and emotional consequences, as well as the economic impact of inadequate sanitation.
World Toilet Days’ vision is to grow as a collective campaign uniting on 19 November everybody who is passionate about toilets to ensure that access to proper sanitation, which has been declared a human right, becomes a reality for all.
2013/11/22(金) | News | トラックバック(0) | コメント(0)
(日本版WSJ)総合人材サービスのリクルートはオーストラリアのフリーランサー・ドット・コムの買収に向け交渉を行っている。事情に詳しい複数の関係者が明らかにした。買収提示金額は4億米ドル(約400億円)だという。
シドニーに本社を置くフリーランサー・ドット・コムは800万人以上のユーザーを抱え、フリーランスやアウトソーシング、クラウドソーシング市場の世界最大手とされる。2009年の創設以来、230カ国以上のユーザーに12億5000万米ドル規模の仕事を提供しており、発注側でも、労働コストを低く抑えたい小企業による利用がますます増えている。
2013/09/10(火) | News | トラックバック(0) | コメント(0)
Real Madrid’s protracted pursuit of Gareth Bale, a Tottenham Hotspur forward, voted the best player in England last season, only ended once the clubs agreed on a world record £85m fee. This surpassed the £80m that Real Madrid paid to wrest Cristiano Ronaldo from another English club, Manchester United, in 2009
2013/09/06(金) | News | トラックバック(0) | コメント(0)
The need to smile all day at work is turning young South Koreans towards a surgical procedure that lifts the corners of their mouths.
2013/08/30(金) | News | トラックバック(0) | コメント(0)
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(2013年5月31日:朝日新聞)安倍晋三首相が6月1日から横浜市で開くアフリカ開発会議(TICAD5)にあわせ、6日間で40カ国以上の首脳と相次いで会談する。日本企業のアフリカ進出を後押しする狙いだ。
2013/06/01(土) | News | トラックバック(0) | コメント(0)
At the moment, publication in Nature, Science and a handful of similar journals is like a sprinkling of fairy dust. Everyone knows how tough it is to get in, so papers that do so are assumed to be special. This will be hard for open-access publications to emulate.(中略)According to Nature, the cost per published paper is $40,000. If Nature is to stay in business in anything like its current form, someone will have to pay that.
2013/05/29(水) | News | トラックバック(0) | コメント(0)