by Christine Hahn

by Christine Hahn

Reading Lounge

1. Going native in the Hermit Kingdom

2. CAN THE EURO RIVAL THE DOLLAR?

3. Christian Missionaries and Their Mistaken Message from God

4. Rapper Symbolizes Backlash Against South Korea's Feminists

5. Time Lapse of the Sushi Scene in Isle of Dogs

6. Philip Johnson Was Very Nazi

7. How the British Ascended in India 200 Years Ago

8. Linguistic observations of Chancellor Merkel

Reading Lounge

1. The life and times of Arniko

2. Robert Dawson’s Trompe L’œil Ceramic Works

3. Car eye candy

4. The Triple Jeopardy of a Chinese Math Prodigy - Thriller

5. Plausible Disavowal

6. The million-dollar drug

7. That Andaman island thread

Reading Lounge

1. What Is It Like to Be a Man?

2. How the bicycle beats evolution and why Steve Jobs was so taken with this fact

3. Beneficial wrongdoing

4. Will India's women decide the election?

5. Pun had asked for a safety strap, but his Chinese supervisor had told him: “It is just a three-storey building. You won’t die even if you fall.”

6. In defence of puns

Reading Lounge

1. JIM CARREY - IndigNATION

2. China's Social Media App WeChat Demands More Info From Users

3. Norway has saved too much of its oil revenues

4. Clergy sex abuse on the rise again

5. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed

6. The Geopolitics of Language in the Himalayas - highly recommended

7. Preston Porter Jr.

8. Maximum City

Reading Lounge

1. Taiwan to crowdsource its laws

2. A Dali moment - Metamorphosis of Hitler's Face into a Moonlit Landscape with Accompaniment

3. Elizabeth Warren Has Got It All Wrong about Germany

4. Parrots' economics

5. Markets in everything - today the giraffe

6. Bret, Unbroken

Reading Lounge

1. Man is pleading people to stop ‘having sex’ with his hedge

2. Moncler's New Identity

3. What if U.S. retail prices were not denominated in U.S. dollars, but instead were denominated in gold or Bitcoin?

4. Life as a North Korean living in the South.

5.  “All credit card PIN numbers in the World leaked”

Reading Lounge

1. Our Gilded Age (India version)

2. Meet the ladies of Japanese wrestling

3. “I licked the chair and voilà,” he says. “I could taste the fraud.”

4. Interference in furniture

5. A $2.1 billion bomber

6. As the telegenic fist-puppet of the global elite, Justin Trudeau does everything his string-pullers tell him to do: He pretends that Muslims are human, that trannies are women, that white people need to be eliminated, and that women never lie about rape.

Reading Lounge

1. Taiwanese Artist Recreates Realistic Japanese Life in the 80’s Miniature Models

2. German ostalgie

3. Incongruant with Christianity

4. Nearly 1,000 Paintings & Drawings by Vincent van Gogh Now Digitized and Put Online

5. the hike that changed pasadena and human knowledge

Reading Lounge

1. Itsy-bitsy 72 sq ft Beijing space sells for a whopping US$384,500 - no toilet!

2. Aspiring Day Trader

3. Finally, Ernest worries of the personal impact math has on “less-successful students,” especially women, since math is often perceived as a “masculine” and “difficult” subject. 

4. Happiness Around the World--And For Migrants

5. P.R. company stumbles over own P.R.

Reading Lounge

1. Why Are People Still Dying in China’s Dragon Boat Races?

2. Showers – 19th century luxury and health

3. Krugman on trade war

4. The Psychology of Money

5. Meditation and yoga good for ego - another illusion shattered

Reading Lounge

1. Islam's clean bill of mental health

2. Exploring The Digital Ruins Of 'Second Life'

3. A very British desease

4. Why are there so many different scripts in East Asia?

5. Hey Boss, You Don’t Want Your Employees to Meditate

6. Ridiculed three years ago

Reading Lounge

1. This fashion show is being called the latter for its ridiculous catwalk.

2. Foreign languages used in Japanese courts

3. Competition in everything - gardens on wheels

4. Fleet Street’s Greek comedy

5. EU is financing Greece – as the Greek government persecutes ex-head of ELSTAT

6. And now for some sick chick. It's complicated.

7. After the IT miracle

Reading Lounge

1. some Vienna-hating

2. Anna Delvey

3. China's Complicated LGBT Movement

4. The "Laffer Curve" Was Discovered by a Medieval Islamic Philosopher

5. Robert Shiller Thinks Bitcoin Will Probably Go Extinct, But If You Want To Trade It During His Final Exam, Then Go Ahead And Be A Moron

6. Instant Rice Production at All-Time High in Japan

Reading Lounge

1. Fantastic French Publicity Caravans of Yesteryear

2. Bread Beds Let You Sleep in the Warmth of a Loaf

3. Them Chinese not only buying German companies - Ding Liren nears 2800 Elo, passes Kramnik

4. Summit uncertainties

5. Oettinger - view from Italy and in their language

Reading Lounge

1. from The Volokh Conspiracy

Germany's misbegotten effort to tame hate on Facebook is going to end up censoring what Americans can read. When will Congress act to preserve the first amendment from other governments?

2. German Police Are Cracking Down on Family Vacations from School — Is American Policy Very Different?

3. China's communists fund Jacinda Ardern's Labour Party?

4. The Tōkaidō Shinkansen’s World-Class Safety, Reliability, and Frequency

5. A dearth of jobs? Nah - Jobs of the future according to MIT

6. Why did the human brain evolve to its large size?

Reading Lounge

1. What Happens in an Internet Minute in 2018?

2. There are Muslims in Tibet, too

3. The arrival of Rohingya refugees in Nepal earlier this year was just the latest wave of the Muslim group fleeing violent persecution in Burma

4. And more on the Rohingya

5. The Amazing Psychology of Japanese Train Stations

6. WeChat Ends Relationship With American Sugar Daddy App

7. Got hot water? Hot water revolution: how Chinese tourists are changing the world

Reading Lounge

1. Trade, Institutions and Ethnic Tolerance: Evidence from South Asia

2. Based on the above study: How Trade Leads to Tolerance

3. A surplus of trade discussions - This is also a response to Steve Keen

4. Against metrics: how measuring performance by numbers backfires

5. 50% of people cheat at Monopoly, so Hasbro redesigned it for them

6. The very best at last.

"It said it had sponsored four Ukrainian “crypto enthusiasts” to climb Mount Everest and bury a hard drive holding cryptocurrency at the summit"

Reading Lounge

1. Why Are We So Fascinated by Cults?

As Swami Prem Niren, Bhagwan’s lawyer and member of the inner circle, puts it, “Anyone that [Bhagwan] gave juice to, Sheela was gonna fuck over.”

2. Should big tech companies like Facebook be broken up?

3. Religion is failing us - not that one

4. Proud mom orders ‘Summa Cum Laude’ cake online. Publix censors it: Summa … Laude.

5. SODOMY, SAKE, MURDEROUS MONSTERS & SKETCHES STRAIGHT FROM HELL: THE ART OF KAWANABE KYŌSAI

6. The decentralized Central Bank of North Korea at work

Reading Lounge

1. How romance novels are getting a makeover in the Trump era - responsible romance

2. Even very simple fluid systems can have surprising complexity.

3. Sue Gross didn’t wait until she and Wall Street titan Bill Gross had finalized their split, swapping out a 1932 Pablo Picasso painting entitled “Le Repos” hanging in their bedroom with her own rendering. - via Dealbreaker

4. Bhutan’s Happiness Faces the Growing Pains of Development

5. All about Musk

6. What Does Facebook Consider Hate Speech? Take Our Quiz - in case you care