Life Archive
Archives for December 2014
Not only is tipping undemocratic — it may well be unconstitutional.
“Everybody’s like, ‘How could yoga be competition?’,” says Rajashree Choudhury, founder of USA Yoga. “In India this is a very old concept. It’s just the mindset of people.”
The podcast turned out to be a contemplation on the nature of the truth — but a surprisingly effective and moving one.
Here’s where they’re saving American communities from population decline
Three words: demand-based pricing.
A Stanford linguist unearths the winding, surprising histories of the foods that feel most familiar to us.
How they quietly but crucially made normalization possible, over 18 long months.
Why phonebook companies have sued for the right to deliver them.
If you want to be happy, says Pope Francis, stop proselytizing and start creating jobs.
Research suggests a later start could lead to better sleep — and health.
Low pay, high student debt, and a slow start to their careers. And that’s just the start of it.
A political philosopher explains why he believes we should give animals citizenship rights — and how that could actually work in practice..
This is unreal.
It contains a sentence that in hindsight is darkly, hilariously wrong: “For Millennials, the Dow Jones only goes up, people only get wealthier, and America only fights effortless wars.”
“Islam wants peace on the Earth, that’s why Muslims want to stop terrorism of America and its allies.”