Jared Diamond’s new book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is not for the faint of heart. It is a commanding book, intended to utterly convince the reader of the danger of environmental ecocide (unintended ecological suicide). Diamond won the Pulitzer Prize for his book Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, which studied the reasons why different continents have been built up differently over the course of human history. 

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Dongmei Li of Queens, New York is suing Apple Incorporated, claiming that the company violated price discrimination laws when it dropped the price of their iPhone from six hundred to four hundred dollars just two months after the gadget’s release last June.  Price discrimination, in short, is when a company offers the same product to different people at different prices in order to prevent competition.  Ms. Li is claiming that she can’t sell her iPhone at the same price she bought it at because it’s cheaper for someone to buy it direct from the company now.

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When do you give gifts? Some typical answers might be: birthdays, Christmas, or anniversaries. But some choose to give more often than that. Bill Clinton’s new book Giving is full of stories about people who choose to give all year around, some by volunteering time, a few by starting nonprofit organizations, and others by giving away possessions, or donating money.

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