News Articles

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 2011/04/18, 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 2012/12/9, #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,

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] #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

Inheritance

"Meghalaya, India

Where women rule, and men are suffragettes" BBC News [7] #gender #language #paralinguistics #succession

2012/19/01, retrieved 2012/21/01. Fascinating article.

Integration

"The trials of Nunavut -- Lament for an Arctic nation" The Globe and Mail [8]

2011/04/01 , retrieved 2011/04/18. This is an in-depth special feature. #indigenous #prohibition #Canada #WelfareState

Health and Sexuality

"Faking Illness Online The Guardian [9]

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 [10]

(2011/04/07, retrieved 2011/04/18) #psychology #pornography #OnlineIdentity #women

Gun control

"Europe's Lucrative Gun Trade with America", The Globalist [11]

(2008/02/19, retrieved 2011/04/18) *Teleshopper AK-47 (Amnesty International) u2b #GunControl #ArmsTrade

Security

"On becoming an 'opt-out' -- The TSA's scanning policies have raised questions on the boundaries of personal privacy.", Al Jazeera [12]

(2012/02/13, retrieved 2013/01/19) #airport #security #Public_Private #pornography

Science & Technology

Space

"'Most Earth-like planet yet' spotted by Kepler", Rebecca Morelle, BBC News, [13]

17 April 2014

Macroeconomics

"The Road to Economic Crisis is Paved with Euros", NY Times [14]

(2011/01/12, retrieved 2011/10/28) #euro #krugman #federalism

Law

"French police stations in chaos after custody rules reformed" (The Guardian [15] 2011/04/18, retrieved 2011/04/18)

Miranda v. Arizona [16] (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 [17]

2006/07/19, retrieved 2014/05/20) #chaos