For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice.”―T. S. Eliot
Hacked LA Traffic Sign Wants You To “Read A F*cking Book” http://www.buzzfeed.com/isaacfitzgerald/really-good-advice …
Men Who Take Selfies Exhibit Traits of Narcissism and Psychopathy
“Life is a combination of magic and pasta.” — Federico Fellini
New York Magazine
A 17-year-old Staten Island girl reportedlyhit a fellow student at South Richmond High School with a metal stool after becoming outraged that he farted near her. The 15-year-old boy needed eight stitches. While we admire anybody willing to stand up for their nasal rights, a simple "ew gross don't fart near me" probably would've sufficed.
Saudi Arabia Is Giving a Blogger 1,000 Lashes for Insulting Islam
By Katie Zavadski @katiezavadski
The internet lit up in support of the freedom of French caricaturists to lambast religion,but that outpouring did not help Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, who received the first 50 of his 1,000-lash sentence on Friday in the coastal city of Jeddah. Badawi was accused of cybercrimes and apostasy in 2012, for allegedly insulting Islam through his online writing. He was cleared of the apostasy charge (which carries an automatic death sentence in the country), but still sentenced to the physical punishment, ten years in prison, and a $265,000 fine. Reports say that Badawi stood silently as his punishment was carried out in public, as it will be weekly.
'Canada Is In Serious Trouble' As Debt, House Prices Climb, Deutsche Bank Declares
SAPIENS
"There were humans long before there was history," writes Yuval Noah Harari. Still just in his thirties, Professor Harari's book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind is an international best-seller. IDEAS host Paul Kennedy in conversation with the winner of the Polansky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines.
"There were humans long before there was history," writes Yuval Noah Harari. Still just in his thirties, Professor Harari's book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind is an international best-seller. IDEAS host Paul Kennedy in conversation with the winner of the Polansky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines.
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