January 2011
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-23) →
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Watchfuturejournalismproject:
Journalism and Society: Reporting From Inside North Korea
Via The Economist
THE only publication written by North Koreans, about North Korea, for consumption by the outside world, is named after a river that flows from the North to South Korea and into the Yellow Sea. Rimjingang’s eight reporters are dotted about the totalitarian state; their backgrounds range from...
What if Rihanna's "What's My Name"
drinkyourjuice:
was really a song to her grandmother with Alzheimer’s?
Not so funny anymore, is it?
Oh Nana, what’s my name?
Funny story about this. So نعناع (pronounced like “nAGHnAGH” or “nAnA”) is the word for “mint” in Arabic. And mint tea is consumed all the time (read: many times a day) in Morocco. Therefore, one must quickly master the ‘ayn...
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Mother Jones magazine on Tumblr: What if Italy's... →
motherjones:
“…Henry Kissinger famously observed that power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. I’m shocked that a man in your position — you built your own media company, you have the world’s seventh-largest GDP at your disposal — has to pay for it. Bill Clinton and Francois Mitterrand managed to attract…
But really. DAN SAVAGE WRITING AT FOREIGN POLICY?! Brilliant.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-16) →
Forty Years Later: How 'Oregon Trail' Was Born →
theatlantic:
longreads:
For the next two weeks, Dillenberger and Heinemann spent each night wedged into a tiny computer office—a former janitor’s closet at Bryant Junior High School—tapping code into a teletype machine. The teletype was a screen-less, electromechanical typewriter connected via telephone to a mainframe computer that could issue prompts, receive commands, and run primitive...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/511... →
Image from flickr, Christian Cable
Ms Roberts said: “The smell of sizzling bacon in a pan is enough to tempt even the staunchest of vegetarians. There’s something deeper going on inside. It’s not just the idea of a tasty snack. There is some complex chemistry going on.
“Meat is made of mostly protein and water. Inside the protein, it’s made up of...