Friday, October 3, 2014

Bite The Bullet (Train)

How The Law Turns Battered Women Into Criminals, The Train That Made Modern Japan, What We Learned This Week, A Secret History Of Mormon Heavy Metal, What Doesn't David Fincher Do?, What Would It Take To Turn New York Into A Megacity?
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Friday, October 3, 2014
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A FAILURE TO PROTECT
How The Law Turns Battered Women Into Criminals
buzzfeed.com
Arlena Lindley's boyfriend Alonzo Turner beat her for months and murdered her child — so why was she sent to prison for 45 years?
THE MOVEMENT OF CAPITAL
The Train That Made Modern Japan
theguardian.com
At 10am on 1 October 1964, with less than a week and a half to go before the start of the Tokyo Olympic Games, the two inaugural Hikari Super Express Shinkansen, or "bullet trains," arrived at their destinations, Tokyo and Osaka. They were precisely on time.
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What We Learned This Week
digg.com
This week we learned why cyclists shave their legs, how to use an app for consensual sex and why this cat is a hero.
'WAR IN HEAVEN' IS PRETTY BRUTAL
A Secret History Of Mormon Heavy Metal
deathandtaxesmag.com
For a brief, blaring onslaught in the early 1970s, Utah's most famous musical Mormons proudly put themselves in league with Satan. That's right: the Osmonds went heavy metal.
AND THE OTHER WAY IS WRONG
What Doesn't David Fincher Do?
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For sheer directorial craft, there are few people working today who can match David Fincher. And yet he describes his own process as "not what I do, but what I don't do." Join Tony Zhou today in answering the question: What does David Fincher not do?
NO NEED FOR STREET JUDGES
What Would It Take To Turn New York Into A Megacity?
io9.com
Something bizarre happened overnight: New York City's population grew to the size of Shanghai's, swelling from 8 million people to 24 million. It's like a natural disaster, but this tidal surge is made of human needs. Here's how we'll rebuild the city to make room for them all.
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THE BUS GOT ITS GOATS
Image: Goats look out of a bus window, while being transported to a near by livestock market, to be displayed for sale in preparation for the upcoming Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, or
Goats look out of a bus window, while being transported to a near by livestock market, to be displayed for sale in preparation for the upcoming Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, or "Feast of Sacrifice", on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014. Muslims around the world will mark Eid al-Adha, as the biggest holiday of the Islamic calendar. It commemorates the willingness of the prophet Ibrahim or Abraham, as he is known in the Bible to sacrifice his son in accordance with God's will, though in the end God provides him a sheep to sacrifice instead. Credit: AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen
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