If the whole world sobered up, where would we be?
Singer Séan McCann recalls the heady days of Great Big Sea, and his decision to leave his beloved home
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/sean-mccann-why-i-moved-away-1.5279756
Category: Social Engineering
Where’s whitey at?
White population implosion. Sorry @Johnlebon and @johnfriend.
Since 2010, 96% of all U.S. counties saw declines in shares of white population — and those declines aren’t likely to be offset by white immigration from other countries or increased U.S. birth rates going forward.
www.axios.com/americas-race-diversity-population-1d8b2664-860d-4c9f-84a6-416af8421601.html
Mocktail me
An encouraging trend.
Toronto bartender Joel Savoie sets his ingredients on the bar and mixes the first of many drinks he’ll prepare for his patrons on a muggy summer evening.
Hacking democracy
This will lift you UP
One of the most important video series ever made (quote-anounceofsalt), and I agree.
If you like studies of people, as I do, watch this series starting from the beginning.
I make the entire series available here (need a desktop with 10gig of space).
The Up series is a series of documentary films produced by Granada Television for ITV that have followed the lives of fourteen British children since 1964, when they were seven years old. So far the documentary has had nine episodes spanning 56 years (one episode every seven years) all of which were broadcast on ITV, apart from the 6th episode which was broadcast on BBC One.
Source: Up (film series) – Wikipedia
Hey George, the jungle is in Englewood, Chicago
Goodbye Social Media
Female genital mutilation: conspiracy of silence allows it continue
Very unique audio confession.
When Mariya Karimjee was little, members of her family made a decision that would affect her entire life. Years later, she wants to know why.
Social proof trumps best logic
Peer pressure always wins.
Wilt Chamberlain – easily one of the best basketball players of all time – was a terrible free throw shooter. Except for one season when he changed technique and scored more free throws in one game than anyone ever has. Then, crazily, he gave up the technique. Malcolm Gladwell explains why we often make the wrong decisions, in full awareness that they’re wrong. This story was adapted from Gladwell’s new podcast Revisionist History, which is produced by Panoply.