Quick notes: MNC monopolies, Forest man...

• MNCs will milk any nation if there is no oversight. China shows how to handle them.
  - Audi cuts spare-part prices in China amid anti-monopoly probe.
  - Qualcomm looks at $1.2B in fines in China for abuse of monopoly.
  - No substitute to self-reliance. China builds chip giant.



• GMO crops: Multiple pests have evolved resistance against "pest-resistant" GMO crops.



• From Pune: Principal caned us for talking in Marathi: Kids . . . (when will colonialism die?)



• Education that sucks life out of children: Dominated by Tiger Moms, cram schools and highly authoritarian teachers, South Korean education produces ranks of overachieving students who pay a stiff price in health and happiness. The entire program amounts to child abuse.



• So what if she is 8-months old? She is Ahmadi, kill her!



• Shyam Gollakota, assistant professor at the University of Washington: Mobile gadgets that connect to Wi-Fi without a battery



• The man who planted a tropical forest singlehandedly, Jadav Peyang, the Forest Man