Thursday, June 11, 2015
Amazing Websites - Atlas Obscura
Former Slate editor David Plotz is at the helm of my current favorite destination on the Web. Atlas Obscura is packed with the cool, idiosyncratic places that make for the idea road trip. Pop in your zip code for crazy discoveries in your back yard or load up on freakness for your next trip out of town!
Saturday, December 20, 2014
Best of 2014
Website of the Year - Bitter Southerner
The Pentecostal Serpent by Asher Elbein |
YouTube Find of the Year - Reg Kehoe & his Marimba Queens
Book of the Year - Do Not Sell at Any Price
Late Night Grub of the Year - Red Arrow Diner
Best New Thing in Inman Park - Krog Street Market
Via Krog Street Market Facebook Page |
Via Atlanta Trails |
Couple of the Year - Michael Trent & Cary Ann Hearst
Best Thing from 20 years ago - Freebird at the Fox
Best App of 2014 - Blue Note 75 (for iPad)
Atlanta Taste of the Year - Poutine at General Muir
Tweet of the Year - John Lurie
Note to younger artists - when cutting off the ear it is best to do it outside the house. pic.twitter.com/sCL9B3Tx9t
— John Lurie (@lurie_john) December 2, 2014
Top Public Art of 2014 - Mi Casa, Your Casa
Time Killer of the Year - The American Values Atlas
Hokum of the Year - But They Got It Fixed Right On
Friday, December 05, 2014
China's One-Child Policy
Excellent article today from Matthews Asia on the PRC's liberalization of the 1980 One-Child Policy and the general state of population
growth in an increasing urbanized China.
"Last November, China’s Communist Party announced that
the one-child policy would be relaxed by implementation of a policy in which
families are permitted to have two children if either a husband or a wife is an
only child. This marks a change from the previous rules which required both the
husband and wife to be only children in order to qualify to have a second
child.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, ending the one-child policy
is unlikely to change the longer-term trend toward a lower fertility rate, as
the pressures of modern life lead Chinese couples to have smaller families."
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