Tonight was my first Chinese lesson - I tried Rosetta Stone, and the teaching style didn’t work for me. You can follow along with me, if you want to learn some basic Chinese in a perfect Beijing accent!
The first clip is an overview of the vowels and the different sounds in the Mandarin Chinese language, as well as some simple phrases, and the second clip includes some basic introduction phrases.
I believe this is just the tip of the iceberg for creative, healthy flavoring, a major cola product flavored with apple extract, coffee leaf, tantaric acid from grapes, gum arabic from acacia trees, and cane sugar… instead of phosphoric acid, fructose corn syrup, artificial colors, and citric acid.
The amount of trash I generate simply from grocery store food and drink consumption is extraordinary. The plastic containers, and cardboard packaging of my frozen dinners, empty cereal boxes, empty snack boxes, empty milk containers etc. really add up (and even recycling is a wasteful process).
Imagine a new retail experience, where negative externalities from consumption are minimized, and mitigated by labeling and pricing. For example, instead of individually packaged 1/2 and one gallon milk containers, there could be big milk dispensers, where you can fill up your own plastic milk container over and over and over again. Ditto with cereal dispensers, where you use the same packaging week after week, and any other individually packaged product, for that matter.
Also, the carbon emissions from the production and transportation of products from the factories to the store are estimated, printed on the packaging, and a carbon offset is calculated into the purchase price.
I first heard about this project from Dean at a Churchill Club event last year. He said at the time more than 3,000 soldiers have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan without arms. The Luke arm promises to dramatically improve the quality of life of amputees.
Robots have replaced children as jockeys for camel racing, a popular pastime in UAE and Qatar. The owners follow the running camels in SUV’s with remote controls for the robots on the camels!
