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- Laura Miller: Fresh Hell
- What’s behind the boom in dystopian fiction for young readers?
- 2010-06-13 to bestof, books, culture, dystopia, fiction, literature, pop, society by soobrosa
- Norimitsu Onishi: Sinatra Song Often Strikes Deadly Chord
- “Misunderstanding and jealousy,” in his view, were behind the “My Way” killings.
- 2010-05-05 to bestof, crime, culture, death, karaoke, music, philippines by soobrosa
- 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 by bagoly
- Caleb Crain: It Happened One Decade
- Screwball is perhaps the Depression’s most distinctive creation.
- 2009-09-27 to bestof, books, culture, depression, movie, recession by soobrosa
- Alex Shoumatoff: The Mystery Suicides of Bridgend County
- Was it caused by an Internet cult? The malaise of life in a backwater?
- 2009-04-14 to bestof, culture, internet, peer, society, suicide by soobrosa
- James Wolcott: Final-Exit Strategies
- The baby-boomersnewly aware of their mortality. Its the Grim Reaper as life coach.
- 2009-03-08 to bestof, culture, death, us by soobrosa
- Sundance film festival: Underwater treasures - poppa.large@gmail.com
- An Inconvenient Truth grossed nearly $50m, making it one of the most successful documentaries after Fahrenheit 9/11 and March of the Penguins.
- 2009-01-26 to bestof, culture, docu, documentary, ecology, movies by poppa_large
- THE AGE OF MASS INTELLIGENCE
- Weve all heard about dumbing down. But there is plenty of evidence that the opposite is also true. Is this, in fact, the age of mass intelligence?
- 2009-01-12 to bestof, brain, culture, society by bagoly
- Set to become the biggest film of the year, Singh is Kinng will finally see the Sikhs take Bollywood by storm
- What happens when a mentally subnormal Sikh peasant becomes the don of the Australian mafia?
- 2008-08-27 to bestof, bollywood, culture, india, movies by bagoly
- Lisa Katayama: Meet Hiroyuki Nishimura, the Bad Boy of the Japanese Internet
- "You'd be in trouble if you didn't have Google, but you wouldn't dieif Nico Nico Douga didn't exist. But waste is our culture in Japan; look at how we package each candy individually."
- 2008-06-04 to bestof, culture, depression, japan, media, society, waste by soobrosa
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