Category Archives: Health & Recreation

What’s your number?

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BBC News has a cool interactive infographic that approximates where you are in the birth order of Earth’s population. Enjoy! BBC News – 7 billion people and you: What’s your number?

Population rapidly nearing 7 billion…like, soon!

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On Monday, a baby will be born somewhere and demographers will proclaim that the world’s population has reached 7 billion… Wow. Didn’t realize it would happen so quick. How does one celebrate an occasion like this? With chocolate, of course. But what kind???? Bittersweet. It’s a good thing because it’s proof we’re healthier, living longer, [...]

Hot Chicks of Occupy Wall Street

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Political action is well-known to attract young, good-looking women…but so is almost everything. The “We Are the 99%” protests address issues that concern young people with liberal tendencies. So, why is Hot Chicks of Occupy Wall Street so controversial??? The site is not nearly as exploitative as the title suggests, so enjoy it guilt free!

Will Jobs’ influence continue?

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Seeing people mourn Steve Jobs in public is making me uneasy. Was he a hero? Was he even a humanitarian? Richard Stallman, leader of the free software movement, has an alternative take on Steve Jobs’ life and passing… As one can surmise from that sendoff, Stallman’s and Jobs’ views on software as a business are [...]

Steve Jobs is dead

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Co-founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, has died. In 1996, it was on the brink of irrelevance, but Jobs retook the reigns as CEO and turned Apple into a multi-disciplinary powerhouse of a company, even (briefly) to the level of most highly valued company on Earth. I’ve been an Apple customer and advocate from the age [...]

Is Junk Food Really Cheaper? – NYTimes.com

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I frequently read confident statements like, “when a bag of chips is cheaper than a head of broccoli …” or “it’s more affordable to feed a family of four at McDonald’s than to cook a healthy meal for them at home.” This is just plain wrong. Read more: Is Junk Food Really Cheaper? – NYTimes.com [...]

Graph of the way a cigarette tastes – Boing Boing

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Graph of the way a cigarette tastes – Boing Boing

Was she really fired for being too hot?

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This video suggests she has very few redeeming qualities, and that she is obsessed with being seen as hot. I don’t think any jury in the world would hold Citigroup accountable after seeing this video…unless that jury has men on it. It just keeps getting better with Miss Lorenzana, the Citigroup employee who was allegedly [...]

Yann Martel on Big Think

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Really awesome interview (Big Think allows interviewees to talk uninterrupted) with the author of The Life of Pi, Yann Martel. Yann Martel | Novelist | Big Think

John Ronan’s crypt concept for The Old Post Office

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This is a really cool concept idea for the old Post Office building in downtown Chicago: Turn it into a crypt! john ronan architects | the old post office.

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