Photographer Captures Bizarre Reality Of Toy Production In 'Real Toy Story' Dig into your old toy chest and you're bound to find an adorable bounty of baby dolls, teddy bears and the occasional rubber ducky. So, if you don't want to forever taint your memories of these darling childhood mementos, we recommend you look away now. Photographer Michael Wolf's series "Real Toy Story" delves inside Hong Kong's toy making factories, exposing the mass production and consumption embedded in the lives of your cuddliest childhood companions. Wolf, a German-born artist who has long called Hong Kong his home, examines the bizarre production sites that manufacture, in massive quantities, the cute creatures that children around the globe grow to love. There is something extremely unsettling about the overflowing boxes of baby heads or Barbie limbs in all their pastel-colored glory, recalling the kind of nightmares that crept into our elementary school consciousness. "Real Toy Story" is currently on view at Shanghai's K11 Art Space until February 10, 2014.
The Platinum Coin: It’s a Really Bad Idea “The history of coinage is indeed, in many cases, a melancholy record of fraud, folly, and ignorance.” So wrote Sir John Lubbock in his classic 1902 book, “A Short History of Coins and Currency.” And I will freely admit that my first reaction, on hearing about the platinum coin, was to nod sagely and tell myself that Lubbock was right. But as an ever-longer list of people whose views I respect lined up in favor of minting the special trillion-dollar coin as a temporary measure to get around the debt ceiling, I decided to have another look. In the first place, it would be illegal. I’m old-fashioned enough that I still teach my students that the plain language of a statute must be construed in accordance with its purpose. As innumerable critics have pointed out, the purpose of section 5112(k) is to allow the creation of collectors items, not money -- a proposition affirmed by the former member of the House who authored the law, Michael Castle of Delaware. Perplexing Determination
Does Discrimination Lead to Substance Abuse? People who are discriminated against cope with that discrimination in various ways. Although some cope adaptively and use strategies that are constructive and empowering when they are faced with adversity, others turn to maladaptive coping mechanisms. One such mechanism is the use and abuse of alcohol and drugs. Racial discrimination has been shown to be related to increased drug and alcohol use, but has not been proven to be the cause of the increase. So why is it that some people use alcohol and drugs to cope while others do not? Meg Gerrard of the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth Medical School in New Hampshire wanted to explore this question further. Gerrard conducted three separate studies designed to elicit feelings of discrimination among a sample of African-American adolescents. The findings from this study were gathered only from African-American participants. Reference: Gerrard, Meg, Michelle L. © Copyright 2012 GoodTherapy.org. Please confirm that you are human.
30 de ani. Povestea unei iubiri pierdute si a unei vieti regasite. | Alis Anagnostakis L-am văzut cu adevărat în autobuzul dinspre Foișorul de Foc către Universitate. Statea sprijinit de bară, cu privirea pierdută undeva, în spațiul nedefinit dintre locul unde eram, la doi metri de el, și geam, prin care intrau razele portocalii de octombrie târziu. Țin minte că am avut un sentiment ciudat de dejá-vu – ca și cum mai trăisem o dată asta – eu, privindu-l pe furiș, el, prefacându-se că nu mă vede. Până când, brusc, și-a ridicat privirea spre mine și m-am trezit suspendată într-un spațiu atemporal, indundată de o senzație stranie de familiaritate, stânjeneală și un “ceva” pe care nu-l puteam numi, un fel de fior, de dor, de impuls de a mă pierde în ochii lui mari, verzi-căprui. După câteva momente, care mi-au părut o veșnicie, mi-a zâmbit și mi-a întins mâna: “Cred că suntem colegi de grupă, nu-i așa? I-am răspuns încercând să par sigură pe mine, chiar ușor indiferentă: “Bună. Eram în primul an de facultate la “Științe Politice” la Universitatea București. “Într-o ce????”
How Poverty Taxes the Brain - Emily Badger Human mental bandwidth is finite. You’ve probably experienced this before (though maybe not in those terms): When you’re lost in concentration trying to solve a problem like a broken computer, you’re more likely to neglect other tasks, things like remembering to take the dog for a walk, or picking your kid up from school. This is why people who use cell phones behind the wheel actually perform worse as drivers. We only have so much cognitive capacity to spread around. This understanding of the brain’s bandwidth could fundamentally change the way we think about poverty. In a series of experiments run by researchers at Princeton, Harvard, and the University of Warwick, low-income people who were primed to think about financial problems performed poorly on a series of cognition tests, saddled with a mental load that was the equivalent of losing an entire night’s sleep. This explains, for example, why poor people who aren’t good with money might also struggle to be good parents.
Lia Bugnar: Cred că frumuseţea ia forma omului pe care-l iubeşti | Yorick Foto Andrei Runcanu Este actriţă, scrie teatru, regizează. În spaţiul teatrului nostru contemporan şi, mai ales, în teatrul independent a înfiinţat ceea ce s-ar putea chema o mişcare, dacă ar avea un nume… Lia Bugnar este una dintre cele mai frumoase întâmplări ale teatrului actual. Erai actriţă, făceai teatru… De ce te-ai apucat într-o zi să scrii teatru? Ai o informaţie greşită. Dar ce te-a făcut să crezi că n-ai talent? Păi nu jucam. Adică nu te plăceai pe scenă? Nu, eram bâtă şi aveam şi senzaţia că toţi din sală mă urăsc, eram în cea mai proastă situaţie şi nu aveam nicio legătură cu vreun act de creaţie. Şi acum te simţi bine pe scenă? Foarte bine, ca peştele în apă. Dar ce înseamnă să fii prost pe scenă? Înseamnă să nu reuşeşti niciun pic să uiţi de tine şi, mai ales, să nu reuşeşti niciun pic să te ocupi de ceilalţi. Şi toate astea ai început să le înţelegi după ce ai început să scrii. Da. Dar acum, de când ai început să te simţi bine pe scenă, ai vrea să joci la un alt regizor? Nu.
Top 10 Subtler Forms of Discrimination While society has not completely discarded racism, sexism and homophobia, at least there’s some public awareness of those issues; other forms of discrimination occur every day and are recognized only by the victims. While we praise our open-mindedness on the ‘big’ issues, could we still be harboring unfair—and perhaps unconscious—prejudices against friends and neighbors? Submitted for your approval are 10 Subtler Forms of Discrimination, and it might open your eyes a bit. NOTE: I’m not the subtlest of human beings. Bias against bald people started early. The 20th century’s youth-obsessed culture viewed baldness as old age incarnate, and fueled a billion dollar hair care and restoration industry. But, there is hope. So bald men can be sexy now. We could be going faster, but we’re headed (groan) in the right direction. <a href=" src=" Think again. That’s not happening. Maybe not.
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