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...your research, you found vestiges of this warped way of thinking in an unexpectedly modern setting: school shootings. Pekka-Eric Auvinen, a Finnish schoolboy who murdered eight people at his high school in November 2007, wrote on his blog that "stupid, weak-minded people are reproducing ... faster than the intelligent, strong-minded" ones. Auvinen thought through the philosophical implications of Darwin's work and came to the conclusion that human life is like every other type of animal life: it has no extraordinary value. The Columbine killers made similar arguments. One of the shooters, Eric Harris, wore a "Natural Selection...
...Hotel. Significantly, Nordic chefs are looking not only in their own backyards but also to one another for inspiration and to their governments for support. The Nordic Council of Ministers, recognizing the marketing tool that gastronomy can be, enthusiastically promotes the interests of new Nordic food as official policy. Pekka Terava of Helsinki's Olo restaurant points out that while each Nordic country is small, the region has a combined population of almost 25 million people. When it comes to cultural influence, there is strength in numbers. Noma's Redzepi sees all that open space as uncharted culinary territory...
...Apple encroached on Nokia's turf when it introduced its much-heralded iPhone, Nokia is striking back by taking aim at Apple's dominance in the digital music biz. On Wednesday Aug. 29, in a gala event in London, Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo announced that his company will soon fire up its long-anticipated music downloading service. The Nokia Music Store will go live later this year as a crucial component of a new Nokia website called Ovi. Competing against downloading sites like Apple's iTunes, it will let consumers download millions of songs directly onto their...
...then has been breathtakingly swift: the winner of a major conducting competition at 23, he was offered Sweden's Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra at 25; then, in April, on the strength of only two guest appearances, the storied Los Angeles Philharmonic announced that the 26-year-old would succeed Esa-Pekka Salonen as music director...
...Michael is really a public intellectual,” said Pekka K. Sinervo, dean of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Arts and Science. “Fundamentally, he is someone who brings people together into discussions that really move us forward in understanding some of these very difficult rights issues...