I got up early on weekends as usual and opened my Podcast. Randomly picked a TED topic, to be specific, “Gabriel Barcia-Colombo: My DNA Vending Machine”, I enjoyed my breakfast as listening to it, and almost choked on my bread.

A DNA vending machine? Seriously?

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Forgive me that I am neither an artist nor a biologist, so that I can barely appreciate the artistic connotation or innovative scientific ideas, or whatever you call, containing in such a vending machine. From a commerce student’s view, I deeply worry about this vending machine’s life cycle and ethical issues it possibly is going to raise.

I roughly read through the comments under the talk, and was not surprised to find a lot of people claiming their unwillingness of “donating” or “selling” their DNA segments, with their photo on a lovely little white container. I don’t want to either. And I really doubt whether there is anyone who truly want to spend even a buck on buying others saliva, which is claimed as pieces of art with DNA. And god knows what people are going to do with such piece of DNA. Probably clone another you.

Truly, I do appreciate the creativity and bravery of Garbriel, who came up with this idea, but I can also present how unrealistic such idea is by doing a supply and demand analysis. Well, things happen anyway. Probably I should try to enjoy such kind of DNA sample’s beauty before giving definite criticizes.

Is nowadays mothers’ daily behavior of making baby food on their own pernicious? I doubt.

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Similar to Pierre and the writer of the article “Pernicious Moms Threaten Capitalism” Rebecca, I have serious ethical concerns about Beech-Nut Nutrition President, Jeff Boutelle, or to be general, the businessmen.

Yes, it IS important for business to make profit, to make money, and honestly that is the main reason of the existence of business. Milton Friedman said, “The social responsibility of business is to increase profits” and it seems for him the only social responsibility of business is to maximize their profit but not spend even one buck on charity or other social matters. I guess that is why Jeff Boutelle thought moms’ attempt of making their own baby food is pernicious. OMG they are threatening the development of baby food companies because they are not going to buy their products anymore! How dangerous!

…Seriously? That is the funniest joke I’ve never heard. Guess what? Babies’ health, reduction of environment footprint, saving natural resources… I will say, any of those matters is definitely more important than making more profits from social concern.

Perhaps it is the time for businessmen to put down their calculators and have a look at the beautiful world.

I was attracted by the title. Did cocaine use by bankers cause the global financial crisis? This is definitely a genius title, combining drug issue, celebrities, and what people care most about, money.

Cocaine: usage among bankers has been said to be commonplace in the City and Wall Street. Photograph: Rex Features/Simon Webster

Let’s treat the title as a serious question. Thanks to Prof. Gateman, I learn to define a question before answering.

First, what is the ‘global financial crisis’ on earth? Inflation? Currency devaluation? Credit crunch? What is it?

And why ‘bankers’? Are bankers the only group of people who take cocaine? Are bankers the only group people who potentially affect the global financial trend? Why not economists? Why not Jobs? (No offence.)

Why ‘cocaine’? Is cocaine the only substance stimulates people’s brain and makes people 110% believe what they are talking about but indeed know nothing about it? According to my experience, Vodka works as well.

What I want to say here is that this article does not have any great reference value apart from its genius title. Probably I’ll make it as my blog title this time, but I need to change it a little bit apparently.

How about this? Did cocaine use by bankers truly cause ‘the global financial crisis’?

And I’ll say, “I don’t think so.”

Please refer to the article: ‘Did cocaine use by bankers cause the global financial crisis?‘ http://www.theguardian.com/business/shortcuts/2013/apr/15/cocaine-bankers-global-financial-crisis