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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Links to Your World, Tuesday April 17

Faking terminal cancer for wedding gifts?

 

Three-year-old finds live WW2 grenade in an Easter egg hunt.

 

Ryan Sanger in "How Big Cities Can Lead to Small Thoughts"--"For all the admiration heaped on cities as sources of creative frisson, there's nothing magic about concrete and good cappuccino that keeps us from sorting ourselves into social satrapies. Sometimes it's a trendy phone, sometimes it's a monolithic political or ideological culture. But whatever it is, "small town" thinking can crop up as easily in the megalopolis as in Palookaville. For those satisfied in their city ways, it may just take a little extra effort to Think Different."

 

The Best and Worst Jobs of 2012. Where does your job fall in the ranking?

 

Why you like books and movies with sad plots.

 

A secular explanation for why cohabitation is more likely to lead to divorce.

 

After reading this article about California, you'll have to work hard to convince me they're not really writing about Austin city planning....

 

 

 

 

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