World Population Ageing 1950 -2050, Population Division, DESA, United Nations
I find this incredible, we may think the economy is bad now, but what will it be like in 2050?
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My kids don’t know the difference between what they’re watching that’s TV and what’s a movie. It’s all on the same-size screen.
Matthew Weiner quoted in GQ
(Source: GQ)
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10 top tips for the journalists of tomorrow
and today!
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I am, incidentally, Honorary President of the American Humanist Association, having suceeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that totally functionless capacity. We had a memorial service for Isaac a few years back, and I spoke, and said at one point, “Isaac is up in heaven now.” It was the funniest thing I could have said to an audience of humanists. I rolled them in the aisles. It was several minutes before order could be restored. And if I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, “Kurt is up in heaven now.” That’s my favourite joke.
Kurt Vonnegut: a man without a country, a memoir of life in George W. Bush’s America.
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The acceptance of drug-taking in the Tour de France was so complete by 1930 that the rule book, distributed by Henri Desgrange, reminded riders that drugs would not be provided by the organisers.
(Source: Wikipedia)
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Last year during the Occupy movement, the conservatives who oppose tax equality saw the first real ripples of discontent. Their response was either Marie Antoinette (“Let them eat cake”) or Ebenezer Scrooge (“Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”). Short-sighted, gentlemen. Very short-sighted. If this situation isn’t fairly addressed, last year’s protests will just be the beginning. Scrooge changed his tune after the ghosts visited him. Marie Antoinette, on the other hand, lost her head.
Think about it.
Stephen King’s brilliant article in The Daily Beast.
So now I have a blueberry bush, here’s hoping for plenty of fruit this summer.
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The family’s lawyer told the court that at busy times, the restaurant would reuse chicken that had been dropped on the floor.
When you think KFC’s reputation can’t get any worse.
(Source: BBC)
this is my cycling goal!
(Source: Spotify)
Nooooo!
Spent the afternoon at an edible windowsill workshop. I now have a strawberry plant, lettuce, chives and onions growing in the same pot. Tempted to eat the lettuce straight away!
(Source: Spotify)
