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Is Spain becoming lame? Or just maturing?

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While such a schedule might indeed be healthier, and questionably better for economic productivity, blog correspondent Sasha Vartelskaya, who brought this story to FWIW’s attention, exclaims: “Kakoi-to ujas! [Horrific!] Soon there might not be anything pleasant left in the world…”

 

Screen Shot 2014-02-18 at 4.44.07 PMSpain, Land of Siestas and 10 PM Dinners, Asks if It’s Time to Reset the Clock — NY Times

A pro-efficiency movement is pushing Spain, with its long siestas and late nights, to reset its clock to align the country with the rest of Europe’s 9-to-5 schedule and become more productive. 

 

 

 

 

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Cry of the Collective Unconscious

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A 36-year-old woman was charged Wednesday after punching, scratching and sliding her buttocks against a painting worth more than $30 million, authorities in Colorado said. . . 

 

 

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Five Elements of French Culture

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Jennifer L. Scott arrived in France as a California girl, but she returned home as a Parisienne. . .

 

 

 

 

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The cultural roots of malady

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In 1951, Hong Kong psychiatrist Pow-Meng Yap authored an influential paper in the Journal of Mental Sciences on the subject of “peculiar psychiatric disorders”—those that did not fit neatly into the dominant disease-model classification scheme of the time. . .

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Mind is matter: telepathy needs a conduit

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The miraculous life of Tatiana and Krista Hogan and what it could reveal about the human brain.
 
 
 
 

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Abandoned Cities

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pripyat, ukraine - Tim Seuss - creepiest cities

“Some cities die. The people leave, the streets go quiet, and the isolation takes on the macabre shape of a forlorn ghost-town— crumbling with haunting neglect and urban decay. . .”

 

 

 

 

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People Is Evil

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SAN FRANCISCO – When faced with a thorny moral dilemma, what people say they would do and what people actually do are two very different things. . .

 

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