http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/peter_eigen_how_to_expose_the_corrupt.html

One of the best talks I have heard
http://www.ted.com/talks/raghava_kk_five_lives_of_an_artist.html

Read a few books that were so obtuse that I wonder that I even mention them . Girl with Glass Feet  by Ali Shaw . Its about a girl on a remote british isle who is slowly turning into glass . This isle is filled with creatures that  can with one look tun you white . Can with a bite turn you into glass . So the marshes around the isle are filled with glass bodies or parts .
There are moth winged cattle and  ....
Another was about an imaginary detective
Oh these first world books !!!
Family Album by Penelope Lively was anything but
Now I am reading " The Beautiful Tree" by James Tooley   . He was a teacher who is then asked to look into the matter of education for poor children in developing countries . In Hyderabad India , he discovers that every slum is filled with private schools  for the poor and why the parents prefer these to government schools .