the problem with the internet

As usual, xkcd sums up the situation perfectly (only, 'Wikipedia' ought to be substituted by 'the Internet'):



I really shouldn't be let near a computer, especially when I'm supposed to be studying. Behold, the things I've found out ever since I decided to look up 'Lebenswelt' on Google:

1. Lebenswelt is just a fancy way of saying 'the world as lived'

2. Maurice Merleau-Ponty turns out to be a disciple of Edmund Husserl. Now I understand why Husserl is namedropped in almost every other sentence in Merleau-Ponty's generally incomprehensible essay "What is Phenomenology?"

3. Martin Heidegger, whose lecture "What is Philosophy?" introduced me to the not-so-wonderful world of philosophizing in Ph101, is described by them denizens at TIME magazine as an 'odious man with Nazi sympathies'.

4. Sigmund Freud is on the cover of the November 1993 issue of TIME magazine. The puzzle-piece thingies from his head look cool. 8D

5. Jean Piaget looks oddly endearing in this photo. And John Maynard Keynes looks more dapper than I expected.

6. According to the World Economic Forum's 2008 Global Gender Gap Report, the Philippines ranks 6th out of 130 countries in closing the gender gap between men and women. We rank 1st in the Educational Attainment and Health and Survival subindexes, 8th in the Economic Participation and Opportunity index, and 22nd in Political Empowerment. (The full country profile can be found here.) Also, according to the WEF, a nation's economy, health, and productivity increase as the gender gap descreases. We've been in the same rank for the past three years -- why can't I see progress, let me ask you?