Every day, the same, again
Woman arrested for trying to sell her kids on Facebook.
Last Two Speakers of Dying Language Refuse to Talk to Each Other.
2,000 to 4,000 businesses now producing marijuana for legal purposes. Total sales: $1.2 billion to $1.3 billion last year.
450,000 people had robot-assisted surgery last year, making Intuitive Surgical, the maker of the da Vinci machine, one of the hottest stocks around. Hospitals across the country embrace the cutting-edge surgical device but criticism is mounting. CNBC’s Herb Greenberg investigates allegations of problems in the operating room in his latest documentary, “The da Vinci Debate.”
This paper proposes that networks can act as covers which allow actors to participate in markets while maintaining a plausible excuse that they are not. [PDF]
Sites listing an individual’s real name have become common. This shift towards real names is not merely a technical convenience, but a specific political turn. As pseudonyms are often associated with Internet trolling and cyberbullying, it is useful to track the use of pseudonyms in history and to consider many of their positive functions.
This month marks 20 years since work started to wipe away one of the most striking features of the Hong Kong landscape for good. A 2.7-hectare enclave of opium parlours, whorehouses and gambling dens run by triads.
Why has China built a ghost town in Africa?
Does riding a motorcycle reduce your sperm count?
Why White People are Called Caucasian? [via Sunday Reading]
The Eat-This-Then-Your-Sweat-Will-Smell-Like-Rose-Water Experiment.
MoMA’s Jackson Pollock Conservation Project.
A Wet Towel In Space Is Not Like A Wet Towel On Earth. [Thanks Tim]
Traveller arrested smuggling live hummingbirds in his trousers.
