June 2011
53 posts
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Jun 1st
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“At Square’s product launch, Mr Dorsey said his firm’s goal was to make paying...”
– Attempts to turn mobile phones into digital wallets gather pace in America.
Jun 1st
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WatchWatch
jonberkeley: Here’s a step-by-step of an illustration for this week’s Economist cover, about the dramatic effect we insignificant primates are having on the planet And the final cover, if you’d like to see what we did with Mr Berkeley’s illustration, is here.
Jun 1st
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May 2011
60 posts
May 31st
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May 31st
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“In the run-up to the predicted Rapture, non-believers prepared for a field day....”
– The scoffers proved correct. May 21st came and went with only the usual suffering of a day on earth.
May 31st
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May 31st
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May 31st
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“The habit of the moose to wander across highways in the dark has made it a road...”
– Two Newfoundlanders paralysed in collisions filed a class-action suit in January claiming the Canadian government was not doing enough to protect drivers from the lumbering giants.
May 31st
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May 31st
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May 26th
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May 26th
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May 26th
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May 26th
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May 25th
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May 25th
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Poker-faced →
A new study argues that poker is a game of skill, not chance.
May 25th
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May 25th
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May 25th
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“If it is passed by voters, a local ballot measure in San Francisco will in...”
– A federal law and various state equivalents ban female circumcision, whether performed as a religious rite or not. “Intactivists” are asking why the cutting of a baby boy’s foreskin should be any different.
May 24th
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