Ensure chip shortage does not affect you

Qualcomm, which makes processors and modem that power any of the leading smartphones and other consumer gadgets,  what the resurgent car industry was facing called “ Chipageddon.” When the supplies run short, it halts manufacturing chips, as gamers struggled to buy new graphic cards, Apple had to stagger the release of its iPhones 12 Pro…

Transformation of complex human issues into common sense

Miguel Ruiz distills essential Toltec wisdom on human relationships as well as techniques for integrating this awareness into daily life. This book is a must-read for every guy and girl, which has four agreements, including  Why domestication and the image of perfection lead to self-rejection. The war of control slowly destroys most relationships. Why we…

A Nations barrier-breaking  vice president

Kamala, the daughter of a Jamaican-born father and India-born mother who met in the 60s Bay Area political activism. In her 2020 Democratic National Convention acceptance speech as Joe Biden’s running mate, she proudly recalled having “ a stroller’s eye view of people getting into what the great John Lewis called “ good trouble”. Her…

Healer Monk’s Prophecy

A fictitious English saint, Odo of Whye, commanded a couple of handy superpowers including the prescience which let him see through the fogs of nowadays into far future ages and could be in two locations at once. Hurdy Gurdy is Christopher Wilson’s 10th novel and reveals the picture of plague-ridden 14th century England, with its…

Gender intersects with class and caste

Katra Sadatgani a tiny village in western Uttar Pradesh, where a community is bounded by tradition and custom, where young women are watched closely and know what is expected of them. On an ordinary night, two girls Padma and Lalli went missing, and the very next day their bodies were found hanging in the orchard,…

Brexit by a true  late convert

The United Kingdom is a European country, but not the same kind of European country as Germany, Poland, or Hungary as for 150 centuries Britain has been inhabited and been on the edge, culturally and literally, of mainland Europe. Will the unruly forces unleashed by Brexit break up the Union? Historian, Robert Tombs reveals that…

Struggling to find peace: An Empire forged by Bismarck

Germany was united for the first in its modern history 150 years ago for two reasons.  Before 1871, Germany was not a nation, but an idea its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable task at hand as to how would he bring thirty-nine individual states under the yoke of a single Kaiser, convincing proud…