Today, the isolated village of Hogewey lies on the outskirts of Amsterdam in the small town of Wheesp. Hogewey is a cutting-edge elderly-care facility where residents are given the chance to live seemingly normal lives. With only 152 inhabitants, it’s run like a more benevolent version of The Truman Show, if The Truman Show were about dementia and Alzheimer’s patients. Like most small villages, it has its own town square, theater, garden, and post office. Unlike typical villages, however, this one has cameras monitoring residents every hour of every day, caretakers posing in street clothes, and only 1 door in and out of town, all part of a security system designed to keep the community safe. Friends and family are encouraged to visit. Some come every day. Residents at Hogewey require fewer medications, eat better, live longer, and appear more joyful than those in standard elderly-care facilities.
Tag: society
Default Man
this is pretty interesting, starting with
When we talk of identity, we often think of groups such as black Muslim lesbians in wheelchairs
Alcohol inequality
the top 10% of drinkers account for well over 50% of the alcohol consumed in any given year. On the other hand, people in the bottom 30% don’t drink at all, and even the median consumption among those who do drink is just 3 beverages per week.
Antivaxxer nonsense retracted
hey antivaxxer dummies, i know you use science very selectively when it fits your confused aims, but even that is getting much harder now that one of your favorite papers has been retracted. good luck with your crusade.
LA is the real hellhole
some school districts in LA have so many dumb parents with “belief exceptions” that their immunization rates are like Chad and South Sudan. i wonder when immunization rates will start to be factored into real estate. do you want your kids to grow up next to these savages?
Accounting grandeur
Accounting in the modern sense was still a new idea in the 1500s, one with a weight that carried beyond the business world. A proper accounting invoked the idea of debts paid, the obligation of nightly personal reckonings, and even calling to account the wealthy and powerful through audits.
SK Plastic surgery
If you want to feel bad about your looks, spend some time in Seoul. An eerily high number of women there—and men, too—look like anime princesses. Subway riders primp in front of full-length mirrors installed throughout the stations for that purpose. Job applicants are typically required to attach photographs to their résumés. Remarks from relatives, such as “You would be a lot prettier if you just had your jaw tapered,” are considered no more insulting than “You’d get a lot more for your apartment if you redid the kitchen.”
Plastic surgery in SK is so good, people need to get new IDs
as body modification becomes more powerful and more mainstream, we’ll see much more of this kind of stuff. related, male actors now work as hard, if not harder, on their chiseled 6packs than on their acting.
Against holistic “medicine”
woo like this needs to be stamped out. this simultaneously raises my opinion of mr. wales and further lowers it of change.org (though it was already pretty terrible). Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia responds to ridiculous petition seeking to force Wikipedia to take pseudoscience at face value.
No, you have to be kidding me. Every single person who signed this petition needs to go back to check their premises and think harder about what it means to be honest, factual, truthful.
Wikipedia’s policies around this kind of thing are exactly spot-on and correct. If you can get your work published in respectable scientific journals – that is to say, if you can produce evidence through replicable scientific experiments, then Wikipedia will cover it appropriately.
Prison admission falling
I was startled and encouraged to see that under current policies, we are at a 20 years low in the prison admission rate.
a little bit of good news in an otherwise pretty bleak field: the “war on drugs”
Fake it till you make it
Okay that entire paragraph was a lie. Did you believe me? If so, why? Was it because I looked like a kid programming whiz? When that photo was taken, I didn’t even know how to touch-type. My parents were just like, “Quick, pose in front of our new computer!” (Look closely. My fingers aren’t even in the right position.) My parents were both humanities majors, and there wasn’t a single programming book in my house.
This is fascinating. Asian kid uses his history of “looking like he knows what he is doing” to explain how he was able to fake it till he made it.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 