Recently, US President Barack Obama also created a $100m microfinance growth fund for small lenders. Though a good first step, it is still considered a small amount. Grameen Bank in Bangladesh spends $100m on microfinance every month.

Guillory said authorities in Tenaha, about 180 miles east of Dallas, seized $3 million from 2006 to 2008. In about 150 cases, virtually all involving African-American or Latino motorists, the seizures were improper, he said.

Seed: So where do adult philosophers go from here?
AG: Back to the 18th century, in some ways. If you look at someone like David Hume, he thought he was doing a kind of theoretical science — he didn’t think there was a line between what we find out from science and what we find out from philosophy. Increasingly, modern philosophers say that we can learn about the big questions by looking at science. But science, especially developmental psychology, can also tell us about philosophy; it can tell us about what we start with, what we learn, and what the basic facets of human nature are. The kind of picture you often get from scientifically oriented philosophy is often very much in the vein of evolutionary psychology, with everything innate and genetically determined. But one of the more important things that has come out of developmental work is that there’s also a powerful capacity for change. And we’re starting to understand how that change takes place at a very detailed neurological and computational level. 

A United Nations inquiry into attacks by Israeli forces on UN property during the Gaza conflict four months ago has heavily criticised Israel’s army.

The European Parliament has voted to ban the sale of seal products in the 27-nation EU.

The legislation follows lobbying by animal welfare groups, which have long argued that the clubbing of seal pups by hunters is barbaric.

Canada kills about 300,000 seals annually off its east coast – the biggest such hunt in the world.

The Submarines’ song “You, Me, and the Bourgeoisie” has become ubiquitous after serving as the soundtrack to Apple’s iPhone ads. The weird thing? It’s an anti-consumerism anthem.

Hitwise data shows that the most commonly searched term on Live Search over the last four weeks has been ‘Google‘, accounting for 1% of all queries. Number two? ‘Yahoo‘.