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The Aokigahara Forest is the most popular site for suicides in Japan. After the novel Kuroi Jukai was published, in which a young lover commits suicide in the forest, people started taking their own lives there at a rate of 50 to 100 deaths a year. The site holds so many bodies that the Yakuza pays homeless people to sneak into the forest and rob the corpses. The authorities sweep for bodies only on an annual basis, as the forest sits at the base of Mt. Fuji and is too dense to patrol more frequently.
Aokigahara Suicide Forest | VICE News
The Not-So-Rich-Any-More List | Business
Even before the financial crisis, the Occupy movement and the new era of austerity , the Sunday Times Rich List was an odd kind of fixture in the media landscape. The annual roll call of the wealthiest 1,000 individuals or families in the UK has always triggered the full range of our ambivalent responses to people with staggering amounts of money: envy, admiration, disdain, awe, and that special flavour of inverse snobbery that stems from being convinced that you've spent your life more meaningfully than the head of the Tetra Pak food-packaging empire, whatever the impact on your bank balance. Now, though, for reasons we all understand, attitudes towards the super-rich are changing: disdain is hardening into anger; ambivalence has been replaced with hostility. Despite a still-weak economy, the collective wealth of the 2011 Rich List increased by £60.2bn on the previous year , and in the 2012 list, which is published tomorrow, that divergence looks set to get larger.
The Manager's Cheat Sheet: 101 Common-Sense Rules for Leaders
Management is all about connecting with the people on your team. So how do you effectively manage a team? With common knowledge, of course. These are a few back-to-basics rules that will help you develop management skills that really matter. 3. Stand with your arms crossed behind your back.
El rostro de la guerra: fotografías de soldados antes, durante y después de Afganistán | Pijamasurf
La serie ‘We Are The Not Dead’: Soldiers on Afghan Mission, del fotógrafo escocés Lalage Snow, retrata, literalmente, los devastadores efectos de una guerra sobre la psique de los combatientes. Mucho se ha hablado sobre la guerra, sobre su esencia ligada a una intención –tal vez primitiva– de dominar, sobre los desmoralizantes efectos que imprime en una sociedad y el monumental costo financiero, ético, psicológico y vivencial que implica. Hoy imaginamos, con relativa fidelidad y gracias a ciertos reportajes, filmes, y crónicas, que el participar en una guerra puede ser, comprensiblemente, un evento devastador para la naturaleza humana. Pero lo cierto es que pocos documentos retratan de manera tan contundente las implicaciones que una experiencia bélica puede tener en la psique de una persona, como la serie ‘We Are The Not Dead’: Soldiers on Afghan Mission , del fotógrafo escocés Lalage Snow.
Walmart is always good for destroying your faith in humanity on Black Friday, and this year was no exception : By day’s end, reports emerged from stores across the country of biblical struggles over waffle makers, pepper-spraying, and even at least one shooting. Maybe if shoppers took a closer look at Walmart’s business doings they wouldn’t be so willing to whip out legal airborne torture for a bargain Xbox. Or maybe they would, I don’t know. Still, what Frugal Dad has strung together in Weight of Walmart above, has to give even the most hardened Black Friday criminals pause. It takes what are by now well-worn statistics about Walmart--it’s America’s largest grocery, and the world’s largest retailer, employer, and earner of corporate revenue--and puts them into context, comparing the company to other businesses, industries, and even countries, to demonstrate the astounding reach of a corporation that looks more like a superpower every day.
Infographic Of The Day: Walmart Dwarfs Entire Industries And Nations | Fast Company
The 48 Laws of Power
Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity. Make your masters appear more brilliant than they are and you will attain the heights of power.
During World War II, U.S. Army Brigadier General S.L.A. Marshall asked average soldiers how they conducted themselves in battle.
Hope on the Battlefield | Greater Good
Do a quick search for important entrepreneurs. Do you see any wrinkles on those faces? You sure don’t—some of them might even still have baby fat. Inc. does a yearly list of the top 30 entrepreneurs under 30. Business MBA decided to find out how ten of these young adults are making huge impressions on business and on the world. An iPhone app allowing people to search for food by dish, not cuisine, while seeing photographs of the meals and getting the locations of the restaurants serving it
10 Biggest Entrepreneurs of 2011