Bagoly's Bookmarks
- The Burj Dubai and architecture's vacant stare
- And so here is the Burj Dubai's real symbolic importance: It is mostly empty, and is likely to stay that way for the foreseeable future. Though most of its 900 apartments have been sold, virtually all were bought three years ago -- near the top of the ma
- 2010-01-08 to architecture, business, crisis, doomsday, dubai, society
- Tinkering Makes Comeback Amid Crisis
- Occupying a space somewhere between shop class and the computer lab, the new tinkerers are making everything from devices that Twitter how much beer is left in a keg to robots that assist doctors. The experimentation is even creating companies. With innov
- 2009-11-17 to bestof, business, crafts, craftsmanship, economic crisis, global recession, hands-on, innovation
- Did Christianity Cause the Crash?
- America’s mainstream religious denominations used to teach the faithful that they would be rewarded in the afterlife. But over the past generation, a different strain of Christian faith has proliferated—one that promises to make believers rich in the
- 2009-11-16 to bestof, business, depression, faith, global recession, gospel, mortgage, prosperity, religion, usa
- Don’t blubber, it’s biology
- Everyone should watch a whale being dissected – it teaches us about life.
- 2009-11-16 to bestof, biology, life, whale
- The Science of Success
- With a bad environment and poor parenting, orchid children can end up depressed, drug-addicted, or in jail—but with the right environment and good parenting, they can grow up to be society’s most creative, successful, and happy people.
- 2009-11-16 to bestof, childrearing, children, infant, parenting, society
- The Octomom and Her Babies Prepare for Prime Time
- The Making of the Nadya Suleman Story
- 2009-11-16 to bestof, celebrity, children, media, reality show, story, usa
- Addicted to Cute
- America has been flooded by a tsunami of cute–we’re drowning in puppies and kittens and bunnies and cupcakes–that is transforming marketing (the geico Gecko), automobiles (the Smart car), and movies (Up). But is the world bound to sour on all this s
- 2009-11-16 to bestof, culture, cuteness, pop, psychology, society, trend, world
- Can Indonesia's "Hamburger King" topple McDonald's?
- Would you buy a burger from a one-eyed pirate named Toni Jack? That's the hope of one Indonesian entrepreneur, whose roguish answer to Ronald McDonald also claims his burgers are “better than that one.”
- 2009-11-16 to business, fight, human, indonesian food, mcdonald's
- The rise of Japan’s 'girlie man' generation
- Forget the salarymen, Japan's new 'herbivore' generation of males believe that life is far more important than work
- 2009-11-12 to bestof, future, gender, herbivore, human, japan, japanese, male, society, style, trend
- Typhoid, tyranny and tax havens: The truth behind America's trendiest drink
- Fiji Water's environmental and ethical credentials have seduced the A-list, from Paris Hilton to the Obamas. But there lie dark secrets behind the shiny veneer – from the Chinese plastics plant in which its bottles are manufactured to the brutal dictat
- 2009-11-12 to bestof, business, drink, health, media, politics, pr, trendy, water
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