Revision as of 17:48, 18 April 2011

Culture with a little c

Discount

• Two American five and dime stores that became international: Woolworths and K-Mart (my grandmother knew it as Kresge) #retail
  • Article: "Grim outlook for Woolworths Rescue" (The Guardian [1] 2008/12/11, retrieved 2011/04/18) #retail
  • Squib: "Discounters take over UK malls" (The Guardian [2] 2011/04/18, retrieved 2011/04/18) #retail

Communities

• Vietnamese fishermen in Gulf fight to not get lost in translation (CNN.com [3] 2010/06/25, retrieved 2011/04/18) #shrimp #oil #boatpeople #immgrants #disaster
  • reference to preceding article at National Resource Center on Advancing Emergency Preparedness for Culturally Diverse Communities [National Resource Center on Advancing Emergency Preparedness for Culturally Diverse Communities] #disaster

Society

Gun control

• Europe's Lucrative Gun Trade with America (The Globalist [4] 2008/02/19, retrieved 2011/04/18) #GunControl #ArmsTrade
• Teleshopper AK-47 (Amnesty International) u2b

Health and Sexuality

• "Faking Illness Online (The Guardian [5] 2011/02/26, retrieved 2011/04/18)
  • Münchausen by Internet (MBI) wikipedia #psychology

• "Why more and more women are using pornography" (The Guardian [6] 2011/04/07, retrieved 2011/04/18)

Science & Technology

Law

• Miranda v. Arizona [7] (Warren court 1966) led to the creation of the verb "mirandize" meaning to read someone his or her rights, which include the right to remain silent and to have a lawyer present during questioning. France, champion of human rights, seems to have been a bit behind the curve on this matter, and the constitutional council has decided it's time to catch up fast: "French police stations in chaos after custody rules reformed" (The Guardian [8] 2011/04/18, retrieved 2011/04/18) #corrections #france