Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Information and News

Dreams and Desperation on Forsyth Street. How one bus stop encapsulates the American immigrant experience.

Artist murdered after ex finds her on Facebook.

Sometimes customer service takes you places you don’t want to go.

Computer-generated child pornography is legal for now because no children are harmed. But as technology advances, it’s becoming harder and harder to tell CG from the real thing.

How to play a theramin.

Peeps in Space. An adventurous astro-peep flies to the edge of space on a balloon mission, nearly 97,000 feet high.

Baby Farming in Victorian England. Regulations designed to enforce morality and save government money led to a lucrative infanticide industry.

Why would someone pay $55.71 for a $50 gift card on eBay? Commenters come up with many reasons.

The male rejection of adulthood is now the dominant attitude in Hollywood comedy. The center of attention will be a guy, his buddies and his toys. He will, most of the time, be nudged toward responsibility, forgiven for his quirks and nurtured in his needs and neuroses by a woman who represents an ideal amalgam of supermodel and mom.

6 iconoclastic discoveries about the brain. We now know what we thought we knew is wrong. Ya know?

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