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Tag: culture
Becoming a New Yorker
Ms. Phin already finds herself getting annoyed more easily, even though she arrived from Texas only 2 months ago.
Pool Upgrade
Skaters in Southern California are repurposing dried-out pools in the backyards of abandoned, foreclosed homes, cleaning them out and transforming them into illicit skate parks.
the first real use of the “property”
US Tourist Look
no white socks / sneakers, no stupid sports paraphernalia, no ice. don’t be loud.
Future Schlock
In the 1950s, Disneyland thrilled visitors with its imaginative House of the Future. Now Disney has opened a new House, with a new vision of future domesticity. Our correspondent looks in—and finds that what’s to come will be tough on the stomach, relentlessly beige, and, in every sense, subprime.
Geological Technology
We should expect that over the very long term, if technology continues to increase its presence and scope, our planet will see anthropogenic rock.
Star Wars looks worn
Lucas created a realistic future out of distressed surfaces, oil stains, and a soundscape that included grinding gears and backfires. he called it a “used future.”
The Colored Race
if it were just about the issues, then the us would not be a third world country.
Botox for World Peace
People with Botox may be less vulnerable to the angry emotions of other people because they themselves can’t make angry or unhappy faces as easily. And because people with Botox can’t spread bad feelings to others via their expressions, people without Botox may be happier too
2012-11-26: for those of you having trouble delivering your lines
Card players who don’t want to give themselves away and tip their hand can turn to using Botox to “allow people to gain a poker face’’ in a service he calls Pokertox.
American Dream a Biological Impossibility
He paints a disturbing picture of 21st century American life, where behavioral tendencies produced by millions of years of scarcity-driven evolution don’t fit the social and economic world we’ve constructed.
Our built-in dopamine-reward system makes instant gratification highly desirable, and the future difficult to balance with the present. This worked fine on the savanna, but not the suburbs: We gorge on fatty foods and use credit cards to buy luxuries we can’t actually afford. And then, overworked, underslept and overdrawn, we find ourselves anxious and depressed.
That individual weakness is reflected at the social level, in markets that have outgrown their agrarian roots and no longer constrain our excesses — resulting in the current economic crisis, in which America’s unpaid bills came due with shocking speed.
But with this crisis, comes the opportunity to rethink how Americans live, as individuals and as a nation, and build a country that works.
let the deconstruction begin
Gregor J. Rothfuss 