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  Two of the greatest obstacles that comics have in reaching readers are exposure and cost. Fortunately, the internet has provided remedies for both. Many comic book creators and publishers have put their comics online, available as full issues and at absolutely no cost to the reader. And unlike torrents or scanned files, these comics are completely legal. Here I have endeavored to collect as many of these as possible, now totalling over 300 full issues and stories, in one place.

  Whether you have been meaning to try a new title, or if you’ve never read a comic in your life, there’s still something here for everyone. Follow a link or two or three. Some comics that I especially recommend carry an asterisk, but I haven’t come close to reading everything here. Maybe you’ll find something you enjoy.

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(www.lorencollins.net/freecomic. Adaptado.)

How Internet Growth Is Playing Out in Top Emerging Markets

September 1, 2010

The number of Internet users in the top emerging markets is set to nearly double by 2015 – a pace of growth that sounds enticing but that actually presents plenty of challenges for businesses, according to a Boston Consulting Group report released Wednesday. The report estimates that China, India, Brazil, Russia and Indonesia will have 1.2 billion Internet users within five years, up from about 610 million in 2009.

Developing countries didn't go through the same technological development that the U.S. did, but their latearrival to the Web means that they get to skip things like bulky grey PCs and go straight to mobile devices. But technology use is evolving so rapidly there that it can be tough for businesses to keep up. “China provides an instructive example because, for many companies, opportunities have already been missed,” the report says. “Most of the relationships between the digital players and

Chinese consumers have already been cemented.” 

Despite the rapid growth of Internet usage, though, there are still plenty of barriers. For one thing, most people don't have ready access to PCs and broadband. PC penetration ranges from about 32% in Brazil and Russia to about 5% in India and Indonesia, according to the report. Instead, people rely on mobile devices and Internet cafes. In China, where the PC penetration rate is 28%, the growth of such cafes has been spurred by the fact that broadband is actually cheaper than dial-up. Our colleagues at India Real Time point out that in India, as in other developing countries, low literacy rates make Internet adoption difficult. Hardware might have to change to accommodate that – to voice-based devices or other gadgets that are more intuitive to use, they say.

There are a few other trends among all the countries studied: instant messaging is far more popular in these countries than in the developed world, as are online music and games. And people there are reluctant to pay for content online, particularly those in India and Indonesia. But it would be a mistake to think that tech use in all these developing markets is the same; each country has some intriguing quirks. Indians, for example, are really into jobhunting sites. Social networking is most popular in Indonesia and Brazil. And India, Brazil and Indonesia favor multinational sites, while people in Russia and China go local – mainly because of the low percentage of the population that speaks English.

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/09/01/how-internet-growth-is-playing-outin-top-emerging-markets/tab/print/. Adaptado.

Tame Your Inner Tiger

Controlling parents tend to have children who are academically above average but depressed

By Charles Q. Choi

April 15, 2011

All parents struggle to find the right balance between encouragement and discipline when it comes to raising their kids. This past winter Yale University law professor Amy Chua, who is Chinese-American, drew roars of protest when she asserted in her book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, that successful parenting entails controlling most aspects of a child's life, from prohibiting playdates and sleepovers to screaming at children for getting grades lower than an A. What does research say about this style of childrearing?

"There's no evidence that intrusiveness is appropriate in any culture we've been to before, including China," says psychologist Brian K. Barber of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. To learn more about how psychological control might vary across the world, Barber and his colleagues interviewed 120 adolescents from five different cultures, including Costa Rica, Thailand and South Africa, and then surveyed another 2,100. Their findings, which they recently submitted to the Journal of Adolescence, suggest that some of the behavior described in Chua's book, such as insulting kids (she once called her daughter "garbage"), invalidating their feelings and violating their privacy, correlated with children's depression and antisocial behavior, a finding that matches past research.

Barber distinguishes "authoritarian" households — those that are overly coercive — from "authoritative" households, where strictness is accompanied by warmth and encouragement of self-direction. In a prior study of more than 20,000 U.S. high schoolers, Laurence Steinberg of Temple University and his colleagues found that children raised in authoritative households were typically psychologically healthy, whereas those raised in authoritarian ones had elevated anxiety and depression. Notably kids from both households got comparably good grades, suggesting tiger mothering isn't necessary for excellence after all.

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Tame Your Inner Tiger

Controlling parents tend to have children who are academically above average but depressed

By Charles Q. Choi

April 15, 2011

All parents struggle to find the right balance between encouragement and discipline when it comes to raising their kids. This past winter Yale University law professor Amy Chua, who is Chinese-American, drew roars of protest when she asserted in her book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, that successful parenting entails controlling most aspects of a child's life, from prohibiting playdates and sleepovers to screaming at children for getting grades lower than an A. What does research say about this style of childrearing?

"There's no evidence that intrusiveness is appropriate in any culture we've been to before, including China," says psychologist Brian K. Barber of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. To learn more about how psychological control might vary across the world, Barber and his colleagues interviewed 120 adolescents from five different cultures, including Costa Rica, Thailand and South Africa, and then surveyed another 2,100. Their findings, which they recently submitted to the Journal of Adolescence, suggest that some of the behavior described in Chua's book, such as insulting kids (she once called her daughter "garbage"), invalidating their feelings and violating their privacy, correlated with children's depression and antisocial behavior, a finding that matches past research.

Barber distinguishes "authoritarian" households — those that are overly coercive — from "authoritative" households, where strictness is accompanied by warmth and encouragement of self-direction. In a prior study of more than 20,000 U.S. high schoolers, Laurence Steinberg of Temple University and his colleagues found that children raised in authoritative households were typically psychologically healthy, whereas those raised in authoritarian ones had elevated anxiety and depression. Notably kids from both households got comparably good grades, suggesting tiger mothering isn't necessary for excellence after all.

. Adaptado.