Category: living
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The Shinchonji Cult
PRI’s The World continues to have some pretty fascinating stories I wouldn’t otherwise come across. Recently The World told us about colorful taxi cab ceilings in India. Now, their Matthew Bell is covering this crossover between two of my favorite subjects, South Korea and doomsday cults, in Shinchonji: Lee, the director of the Bible study…
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Inside a Ukrainian Nuclear Missile Base
Drew Scanlon of Cloth Map, and my favorite podcast about speedy race cars, Shift+F1, has this great video from his recent tour of a decommissioned nuclear missile base in the Ukraine. In the video Scanlon actually gets to use the launch controls. Here’s the location on Google’s mapping service: And here is the museum’s English…
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The Medium Car Crash
Evan Williams and his work are profiled in the New York Times by David Streitfeld. He’s behind Twitter and Blogger. There is one good point that succinctly explains a big problem with the web today: The trouble with the internet, Mr. Williams says, is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and…
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Alex Tizon’s Story of Slavery in America and the Philippines
Heartbreaking story from Alex Tizon: To our American neighbors, we were model immigrants, a poster family. They told us so. My father had a law degree, my mother was on her way to becoming a doctor, and my siblings and I got good grades and always said “please” and “thank you.” We never talked about…
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Daylight Saving Time
This isn’t a problem here in Hawaii, where we neglect to observe DST. Video via the esteemed Pat Baer. He shares a lot more fun videos on 404ing it