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The simple story is that it has to do with protests of rural houses being set for destruction because of China’s desire to urbanize; 41 people have lit themselves on fire (it’s called self-immolation) between January 2009 and January 2012… Continue Reading
Two new trailers dropped today for Anchorman 2. You can watch both at this link, although I’ll embed one below as well. Oddly, Harrison Ford — arguably one of the five biggest movie stars of the last 40 years in the… Continue Reading
This happened in South America yesterday (or rather, news broke yesterday), and now, for the first time in 44 years of polling about this topic in the U.S., it appears a majority of citizens — via Gallup, and outside the… Continue Reading
As you likely know by now, Kim and Kanye are engaged. (Maybe this here was the sequence of events that convinced him to finally put a ring on it.) Now, I’m a red-blooded American male and I find her generally attractive… Continue Reading
Just like this morning’s post about mortality rates was close to my heart due to recent brushes with family and death, so too is this post about the current state of the U.S. labor market. I’m technically a full-time student… Continue Reading
I saw this Robert Krulwich article on NPR yesterday. Essentially, Americans are “falling behind” in the getting older race, although no one can truly predict the pattern; obviously Americans have some health issues at the general level, i.e. diabetes, but… Continue Reading
Last night, 60 Minutes did a piece on humpback whales. Two quick side notes before I get going here: (a) with the amount (and the distances) that Scott Pelley travels for his long-form features, how does he ever host the nightly news?… Continue Reading
This article appeared in the UK edition of Wired in February, but it got upvoted on Reddit today and I saw it there; I’m not sure if the precise original publication date matters, because I don’t think it’s breaking news. People… Continue Reading