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Architecture

Paul Melzner, "Horizontal Skyscraper in China Open to The Public Next Year" EcoUrbanHub
2018/08/24 retrieved 2020/03/06, #SwimmingPool, #Cranes, #Construction, #RafflesCity


Culture with a little c

Dining out

Eleanor Beardsley, "Why McDonalds in France doesn't Feel like Fast Food", The Salt NPR's food blog, [1]
2012/01/24, retrieved 2012/02/16, #QuarterPounder #gone!

Discount

"Grim outlook for Woolworths Rescue" The Guardian [2]
2008/12/11, retrieved 2016/10/16, Two American five and dime stores that became international: Woolworths and K-Mart (my grandmother knew it as Kresge) #retail
"Discounters take over UK malls" The Guardian [3]
2011/04/18, retrieved 2011/04/18, #retail #squib
"The New Thrift" Latino perspectives [4]
2010/05, retrieved 2016/10/16, #thrift #Keynes #thrive #PoorRichard'sAlmanac

Communities

"Vietnamese fishermen in Gulf fight to not get lost in translation", CNN.com [5]
2010/06/25, retrieved 2011/04/18, #shrimp #oil #boatpeople #immgrants #disaster

Education

"The Common Core makes simple math more complicated. Here's why.", Vox, [6]
2014/04/20, retrieved 2014/04/21,

Society

Censorship

Headlines & Hyperbole, Listening Post (Al Jazeera English)
2018/03/17, retrieved 2018/03/17.

Health and Sexuality

"Faking Illness Online The Guardian [7]
2011/02/26, retrieved 2011/04/18, Münchausen by Internet (MBI) wikipedia #psychology #MentalHealth #OnlineIdentity
"Why more and more women are using pornography", The Guardian [8]
(2011/04/07, retrieved 2011/04/18) #psychology #pornography #OnlineIdentity #women

Inheritance

"Meghalaya, India. Where women rule, and men are suffragettes" BBC News [9]
2012/19/01, retrieved 2012/21/01. Fascinating article. #gender #language #paralinguistics #succession

Integration

"The trials of Nunavut -- Lament for an Arctic nation" The Globe and Mail [10]
2011/04/01 , retrieved 2011/04/18. This is an in-depth special feature. #indigenous #prohibition #Canada #WelfareState

Phoneless

Byrony Gordon, "I tried Phoneless Friday and my world went into meltdown", The Telegraph [11]
(2016/10/6, retrieved 2018/02/17) #cyborg #cell

Prison

"Video visitation' is ending in-person prison visits – and prisons are going to make a ton of money", Business Insider [12]
2016/05/05, retrieved 2016/05/09.

Security

"On becoming an 'opt-out' -- The TSA's scanning policies have raised questions on the boundaries of personal privacy.", Al Jazeera [13]
(2012/02/13, retrieved 2013/01/19) #airport #security #Public_Private #pornography

Space

"'Most Earth-like planet yet' spotted by Kepler", Rebecca Morelle, BBC News, [14]
17 April 2014

Macroeconomics

"The Road to Economic Crisis is Paved with Euros", NY Times [15]
(2011/01/12, retrieved 2011/10/28) #euro #krugman #federalism

Law

"French police stations in chaos after custody rules reformed", The Guardian [16]
2011/04/18, retrieved 2011/04/18
Miranda v. Arizona [17] (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 #corrections #france #HumanRights

Art

"It’s His House. But, Village Traditionalists Ask, Is It Art? ", (John Tagliabue, The New York Times [18]
2006/07/19, retrieved 2014/05/20) #chaos