Worldwide Lifestyles
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- When Cities Treated Cars as Dangerous Intruders ★★★★★ https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/when-cities-treated-cars-as-dangerous-intr...
- The History of Passport Photos, From 'Anything Goes' to Today's Mugshots ★★★★★ https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/passport-photos-history-development-reg...
- All poverty is energy poverty ★★★★ https://omnibudsman.substack.com/p/all-poverty-is-energy-poverty
- Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes ★★★★ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/08/man-who-built-isp-instead-of-payi...
- People from elite backgrounds increasingly dominate academia, data shows ★★★★ https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/07/08/dept-of-data-academia-elite/
- Privatization, poverty threaten water affordability | Cornell Chronicle ★★★★ https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2022/04/privatization-poverty-threaten-water...
- Finnish as a world language? ★★★ https://www.hagen-schmidt.de/suomi/worldlanguage.html
- Ask HN: Anyone else feels the commoditization of real estate is unethical? ★★★ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32448825
- ‘The Russian soldiers raped every German female from eight to 80’ ★★★ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/may/01/news.features11
- I assure you, medieval people bathed. ★★★ https://going-medieval.com/2019/08/02/i-assure-you-medieval-people-bathed/
- Color has been disappearing from the world. ★★ https://tumblr.macleodsawyer.com/post/691054353059053568/color-has-been-disap...
- This Is South Korea’s K-pop Soft Power Moment ★★ https://thediplomat.com/2022/02/this-is-south-koreas-k-pop-soft-power-moment/
- 99% Of Us See Daylight at This Moment (Or Do We?) ★★ https://www.timeanddate.com/news/astronomy/99-percent-sunlight-july-8