How our planet came to be filled with more disposable plastic straws than most of us will ever need.
Aaron Gilbreath
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Disposable America
“The defining characteristic of the straw is the emptiness inside it. This is the stuff of tragedy, and America.”
Posted inBusiness, Culture, Current Events, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
It’s Time for Hooters to GTFO
My recommendation: a complete rebrand, where all Hooters restaurants are converted into owl sanctuaries.
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Is There a Place for Hooters in 2018?
Ethically, no, but as long as profits dictate, then yes.
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Haruki Murakami Strolls Through His Childhood Home After the Hanshin Earthquake
When Haruki Murakami walked the long distance between his childhood home outside Kobe and the city center, he found a city changed by the great Kobe earthquake, and the constant spector of violence.
Posted inHistory, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature
Staten Island Wilderness, Going, Going, Gone?
One of the last pieces of wilderness on Staten Island might get bulldozed.
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A Walk to Kobe
A 6.1 earthquake recently struck Osaka, Japan. In 1997, writer Haruki Murakami walked the long stretch between Kobe’s city center and his childhood home in the outskirts, to see how the great Kobe earthquake changed his hometown. He found not only a foreign landscape, but traces of himself, and the constant echo of violence.
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In Staten Island, a Remote Wilderness Is Threatened by Encroaching Development
On the southern edge of Staten Island lays the undeveloped creeks and woodlands around Sharrotts Shoreline, a rare relict of old New York. It might not be undeveloped for long.
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Arabs on the Beach in Alexandria
A young woman vacating in Alexandria examines Egyptians’ rejection of Arabness and Africanness, and how Bedouins play into the mythologies of otherness in Egypt.
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Looking Back at Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville
Sometimes the music that endures is the music a musician writes early in their career, when they’ve lived inside a bubble free from fans and critical expectations. Songwriter Liz Phair made a huge splash in 1993 with her debut album Exile in Guyville. The album spawned a devoted following and, thankfully, its own 33 1/3 book. […]