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- 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
- Douglas Rushkoff: Economics is not natural science
- The first innovation was to centralize currency. What better way for the already rich to maintain their wealth than to make money scarce?
- 2009-11-01 to bestof, books, business, currency, economics, history, middle class, society by soobrosa
- Daniel Zalewski: The defiant ones
- In today’s picture books, the kids are in charge.
- 2009-11-01 to bestof, books, children, society by soobrosa
- The Last Psychiatrist: Why Can't Kids Walk Alone To School? Part 1
- We're not confident in how we've trained our kids and so we don't train them, reinforcing our insecurity. Meanwhile, we don't see that they're growing up anyway.
- 2009-10-11 to bestof, child, childrearing, children, security, society by soobrosa
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