Hi Michael, Sorry that we have to miss you, and thanks for the thoughts and questions. I think this book offers some very practical suggestions (based on the available science) for changing our habits. Here're a few notes that may be helpful. And absolutely, I'll put up all the idioms that we go thr...

Dear friends, It'll be my pleasure to host again—and to be back to the meetings at all. It's been a long stretch, and how I miss my Yoyo gang! ("Gang" here is slang for "a group of friends.") As in the past, I'll try and mix things up a bit, explore various discussion formats, and even throw in a ga...

Some of the sites mentioned by Colin R. Turner (What would happen if everything was free?) that work toward an Open Access Economy:


helpfulpeeps
https://helpfulpeeps.com/

simbi
https://simbi.com/howitworks

Streetbank
https://www.streetbank.com/splash?locale=en

Hi Rock, great comments! I think this outbreak could end up disrupting our consumption-driven economy to such a degree that some people may start questioning just how sustainable the system is, if we have to go through the same thing every time there's a global health crisis—lockdowns, market crashe...

https://s3.amazonaws.com/lowres.cartoonstock.com/retail-saving-clothes_shop-clothes_store-clothes_shopping-savings-forn4620_low.jpg Dear friends, Many thinkers have questioned if, in the modern world of “work to live,” “money is not everything, but everything needs money,” we truly have any real an...

https://businessbias.weebly.com/uploads/2/6/1/6/26160068/9590335_orig.gif Dear friends, It often seems like we're constantly dealing with one crisis after another—on the personal front as well as in our civic engagement. But as we take action, just how much of our perception and understanding of th...

Thank you, Shirley and Liwen, for helping out with the meeting!

Dear friends, With the UN Climate Action Summit 2019 just concluded — and our task of saving the planet (and ourselves!) barely begun — I'd love to add to the conversation another look at the issue. And we'll even make it fun with games and various discussion formats. Plus, what brings about that i...

https://tomkow.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8342025e153ef0154320d2625970c-700wi Dear friends, It has been another 4 months and 5 countries since my last Yoyo hosting. Very happy to be back! In each country I just visited I've done discussions on this very topic, and it's great to be able to do one at Yoyo t...

Hi John, It’s a great question! There’re quite a few expressions that convey perceived hokiness of certain practices. “Hocus pocus” (“I think this stuff is just hocus pocus”) and “mumbo jumbo” (“Banks must abandon the marketing mumbo jumbo”) are used a lot. Some once-popular words are now often pejo...

https://www.cartoonmovement.com/depot/cartoons/2011/10/05/the_not_so_great_migration__stephanie_mcmillan.jpeg Dear friends, Fresh back from Japan - the world's fastest aging country (more than a quarter of Japan's citizens are at least 65), now seeking a sharp increase in the number of foreign work...

Thank you so much, Kooper! :mrgreen: For those who're interested (studyholics, anyone? :lol: ), watching the TED video and reading the NPR article CLOSELY may give you even more fun in tomorrow's activities! :lol: But if you're busy, just come ready to chat about your digital life. No worries! :sun:

https://img.deusm.com/informationweek/2014/07/1297147/1Slide.jpg Dear friends, As someone who has wandered over the past 5 years in some 20 countries with just a backpack, I work, play, and stay in contact all on my laptop. No one I know has run up more screen time than I have. It stands that I'd c...

Hi Sherry, it's a fascinating topic! The latest studies on the human brain continue to surprise and at the same time generate even more questions. I'm not sure the teaching of "critical thinking" can exist outside of social and cultural contexts. Science and math have numbers to fall back on, but wh...

Hi all! Since there're rarely questions posted for this thread ( :mrgreen: :ccry: ) I feel I should at least post some notes or comments of mine from this Forum or our LINE group. Hope they help! Here's from the 2018 Year-in-review, headlines by the media around the world summing up the year of 2018...