Sapere Aude
Month: July 2013
they understood marketing through the stomach a long time ago in 1890:
The most legendary feature of the Cincinnati saloon was the free lunch. The foods were salty in character, which inevitably led patrons to purchase more beer with which to wash down the food.
this would be a great building for ny open house: the richest building in the world.
who knew that List of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. employees is the fourth most controversial topic on wikipedia?
Ultimately by visualizing the controversy in Wikipedia, we’re able to see both topics that appear to have cross-linguistic resonance (e.g. Arab-Israeli conflict), and those of more narrow interest such as the Islas Malvinas/Falkland islands article in the Spanish Wikipedia. The data presented here therefore offers a window into not just the topics and places that different language communities are interested in, but also the topics that seem worth fighting about.
2 frauds, better together.
Vatican offers ‘time off purgatory’ to followers of Pope Francis tweets
Papal court handling pardons for sins says contrite Catholics may win ‘indulgences‘ by following World Youth Day on Twitter
social media is a suicide cult for journalists: by using it excessively, they hasten their descent into unemployment, also known as social media gurudom.
The Anti-Vaccination Movement has a body count attached to its name. This website publishes the total number of vaccine preventable illnesses and vaccine preventable deaths that have happened in the United States since this 2007 increase in speaking out against vaccines.
when is that nutcase going to jail for her crimes?
this is very nicely done.
In the standfirst I will make a fairly obvious pun about the subject matter before posing an inane question I have no intention of really answering: is this an important scientific finding?
“Basically, this is a brief soundbite,” the scientist will say, from a department and university that I will give brief credit to. “The existing science is a bit dodgy, whereas my conclusion seems bang on,” she or he will continue.
this has got to be one of the more bizarre pieces i have seen in a while, calling an organization that is synonymous with junk mail “essential for democracy”, and it goes downhill from there.
manhattan inside the grand canyon.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 