I’ve recently added some pages to millionsofmouths.com. First, I’ve added a page about my hero Diogenes The Cynic, the philosopher who chose to live in poverty. You can find this at http://millionsofmouths.com/diogenes.html Secondly, I’ve just added a message board about hunger and poverty to the website. This message board is new, so obviously discussion is […]
Author Archives: Scott Hughes
A Crazy Idea
The below is a bulletin I recieved on MySpace from A Crazy Idea: A Crazy Idea and Youth Against Poverty have teamed up to form a coalition to end poverty in America, and they need your help! The numbers are staggering. Today 37 million Americans live in a state of poverty, hunger and hardship. That’s […]
$100 Laptop
This fall more than 500 children in Thailand will be part of a pilot program for “quality testing and debugging” of the $100 laptop. The One Laptop Per Child program, which is supplying the computers, is the brainchild of tech guru Nicholas Negroponte, who has spent the last several years developing and refining the technology. […]
Causes of Hunger related to Poverty
In a world of plenty, huge numbers of people go hungry. Hunger is more than just the result of food production and meeting demands. The causes of hunger are related to the causes of poverty. One of the major causes of hunger is poverty itself. There are other related causes (also often related to the […]
A Monopoly on Philanthropy
by Scott Hughes I had a friend recently ask me why I called myself an atheist. She said, “you seem to have such a big heart.” Apparently, she thought that there was something oxymoronic about a benevolent atheist. (In her defense, it turned out she thought I was a Satan worshiper, not an atheist. 🙂 […]
Hunger Reading List
For those with an interest in hunger, poverty, and the social science thereof, I’ve compiled a list of books and reading materials. You can easily buy any of these books from Amazon instantly, so I recommend you get one, two, or a few. Here’s the list: The World’s Banker by Sebastian Mallaby World Hunger: 12 […]