UN Week!

Climate change, nukes, and speeches galore. What to expect when Obama, Hu, Qaddafi, and 120 other world leaders descend on New York. From Foreign Policy magazine.

vocab fun to feed the hungry!

I just learned of a great website run by a nonprofit. Take a little vocab test and for each word you get right the advertisers on the page donate 20 grains of rice (well, the money to buy 20 grains of rice) to the United Nations World Food Program. As you get words right they get harder, when you get them wrong they get easier, its a fun little vocab improving way to donate money to the WFP!

DC internship

today was day 1 of taking the train down to DC for my new internship. im going to be working for the gallup world poll, sifting through poll data and writing up analyses and news bits that will be on the Internet and read by super cool Yasmin in the little online news clips. im excited about it, fun to be in an office with interesting people and taking the metro around DC and having an excuse to buy new work shoes and getting both compliments and blisters on the first day wearing them to the office. but more seriously, this poll is pretty fascinating. 130 countries. opinions on wellbeing and quality of life and competence of government. the only frustrating thing is that gallup doesnt open up the data for all to see freely but sells subscriptions at a pretty penny. if you dont belong to a university that subscribes you can read what we post on the web. check it out!