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Justin Lahart: Tinkering Makes Comeback Amid Crisis
Maybe it's time to bring my old white board out of retirement, and rethink some of those old projects.
2010-06-24 to bestof, business, diy, society, technology by soobrosa
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
Jeremy Clarkson: What a daft way to stop your spaniel eating the milkman
Agatha Christie, for instance, was home-schooled and at no point was she forced to eat breadcrumbs from her neighbour’s bird table.
2010-05-03 to bestof, dogs, hysteria, media, psychosis, society by soobrosa
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 by bagoly
Steven Levy: Mob Rule! How Users Took Over Twitter
Twitter’s evolution spawned a new grammar, and the Twitter community created many of the conventions now integral to the service.
2009-11-25 to bestof, communication, distribution, internet, network, social, society, textual by soobrosa
Jill Lepore: Rap Sheet
The American homicide rate is twice that of any other affluent democracy.
2009-11-22 to america, bestof, books, crime, homicide, murder, society, us by soobrosa
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 by bagoly
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
Falling fertility
How the overpopulation problem is solving itself
2009-11-15 to bestof, demography, economist, future, modernism, population, society by lipi
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 by bagoly

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