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Why Gun Makers Want Children to Play With Rifles

As the vast bulk of American hunters close in on old age, firearms makers need a shot of youth to keep their profits flowing.
The industry’s strategies include giving firearms, ammunition and cash to youth groups; weakening state restrictions on hunting by young children; marketing an affordable military-style rifle for “junior shooters” and sponsoring semiautomatic-handgun competitions for youths; and developing a target-shooting video game that promotes brand-name weapons, with links to the Web sites of their makers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/us/selling-a-new-generation-on-guns.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

Why We Took Cocaine Out of Soda - The Atlantic

Why We Took Cocaine Out of Soda - The Atlantic

Anyone with a nickel, black or white, could now drink the cocaine-infused beverage. Middle-class whites worried that soft drinks were contributing to what they saw as exploding cocaine use among African-Americans. Southern newspapers reported that "negro cocaine fiends" were raping white women, the police powerless to stop them. By 1903, [then-manager of Coca-Cola Asa Griggs] Candler had bowed to white fears (and a wave of anti-narcotics legislation), removing the cocaine and adding more sugar and caffeine.

First Official Stills from The Muppets…again!

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/01/escapist-landscape-art-from-inside-americas-prisons/272648/

Some of the most fascinating, unsettling examples of landscape painting in the contemporary United States are to be found in its prison visiting rooms, where they function as painted backdrops for family photographs.

Prison Visiting Room Backdrop, Woodbourne Correctional Facility, New York (Alyse Emdur)

Is the Lecture Dead? - The Atlantic

Is the Lecture Dead? - The Atlantic
A great lecture is not a rote mechanical reading of notes, but a kind of dance, in which lecturer and listeners watch, respond to, and draw energy and inspiration from each other.

What travel writers get wrong about london. ....And how tourists often give themselves away as foreigners

When Travel Writing Goes Wrong: London's 'City of Villages,' in Formal Wear

An atlas of where chefs eat.

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From phones to tablets. 26 apple designs that never came to be

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Artist Uses Thread To Turn Barren Walls Into Vibrant Drawings

The expression "you make a better door than a window" is predicated on the idea that the two things are totally distinct. One you see through, the other you don’t. And going by those criteria, walls exist squarely in the "door" category--unlike windows, they block, hide, and obscure. But Wies Preijde’s thread screens defy such easy categorization. They’re part window, part wall, and they’d be a beautiful, low-impact way to divvy up your tiny studio apartment.

Dead Burger King Lover Hits Drive-Thru One Last Time For The Eternal Road

Some of us want our ashes to be blown out of a Folgers can onto our friends' faces on an inopportune gust of wind, others simply ask that their remains to be fired out of a giant cannon. The family of Pennsylvania resident David Kime Jr., who died at 88, say they knew exactly what he wanted: one last order of Burger King for the road. And so his funeral procession swung by the drive-thru en route to his final resting place. 

"It's nice to know he was a loyal customer up until the end—the very end," Burger King manager Margaret Hess tells the York Daily Record. "He liked his WHOPPER JRs." On Saturday her employees prepared 40 of the sandwiches for the funeral procession, including one that was lovingly lowered down into Kime's grave at Prospect Hill Cemetery in York, Pennsylvania.

Kime, a World War II veteran who was borderline diabetic and had a pacemaker, "lived a wonderful life and on his own terms," his daughter tells the Associated Press. He ate at several fast food restaurants every week. "He would take his Cadillac, which he loved, and drive up to Hanover and have a gut-buster," his daughter recalls, adding that her attempts to get her father to improve his diet fell on deaf ears. "He would say, 'I won't live longer, it will just seem like it because I'll be more miserable faster.' "

Kime died of heart complications on January 20th. (Be sure to check back tomorrow for our followup post about how this was all an ingenious viral marketing stunt.)

http://gothamist.com/2013/01/28/dead_burger_king_lover_hits_drive-t.php

Or is it?

Are we a plague? Well, that depends…

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“Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us”. Of course, he reminds us “the natural world is doing it for us right now." Too many people plus inefficient methods of distribution of current resources leads to consistent waste of lives and resources.

“If all insects on Earth disappeared, within 50 years all life on Earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the Earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish.”

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