Nothing Ever Happens

For those of you who missed Pangea Day (and don’t want to take 4 hours to watch through it all), Patrick De Laive has a comprehensive overview and a list of the best films. Thx Patrick!

- Stop using your phone!
World’s renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Vini Gautam Khurana, who previously launched the first awake brain keyhole surgery to remove a life-threatening aneurysm from a patient’s brain, on Monday published a breakthrough research paper, which says cell phones could have greater health consequences than smoking. There is increasing evidence linking cell phone […]

Sorry Monocle, I had to steal this short article (otherwise only for paying subscribers)- it’s such a great lesson for small countries with big ambitions:
The Danes have become one of the world’s most successful exporters of human sperm
Currently, Danish sperm is used in clinics in over 50 countries for IVF and insemination. Every year, at […]

Always in print:
#1 / Monocle
Started by Tyler Brule (who founded Wallpaper in 1996) is my absolute favorite. It’s all about the quality of life! Monocle is a new entrant which shows there is always room for innovation even in a declining industry. While newspapers are closing overseas offices and trimming staff, Monocle is adding offices […]

1. Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
From New York University professor Clay Shirky and famous internet social-phenomena observateur.
2. Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow’s Big Changes
From “Soccer Moms” to “Late-Breaking Gays” Mark Penn studies America’s ever-splintering societal subsets.
3. Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob
Critic Lee Siegel […]

(From Economist.com)
“DUMB and Dumber”, one of the modern classics of American comedy, tells the story of an affable idiot, Lloyd Christmas, who falls in love with a classy beauty, Mary Swanson. In one scene he asks her the chances of “a guy like you and a girl like me” ending up together. The answer is […]

We are the Universe.

Welcome to the world of industrial food production and high-tech farming! Our Daily Bread (2005) reminds us which direction we as humanity are taking / and how hungry we are :/ (*tg i’m a veggie). Don’t be a chicken, please watch Excerpts 1 and 2.