Stalin hated independence, he hated religion, he hated culture, and he hated 'Girl With An Oar', a statue by Ivan Shadr.Well, it's a 23 foot tall nude so I imagine plenty of people in the West would hate it too, murderous savage dictators or not. A gigantic naked chick in Gorky Park in 1934 was a tough sell.Young people like retro, and that includes young people in Russia, who really know...
read moreThe Lacey Act is one of few government regulations I have praised for its effectiveness. Few government regulations are actually designed to help anyone, they are either designed to hobble someone in order to artificially level the playing field or they are designed to boost a special interest. This act levels the playing field, but for the benefit of companies that are ethical. read...
read moreWho knew pizza was so competitive? I thought the truly ridiculous ideas would come from the uber-egos of Richard Branson and Larry Ellison but, no, it's about pie.Pizza Hut delivered pizza to pizza to the International Space Station in 2001 and Dominos...well, all they did was pay someone in Japan 25 grand for an hour's work. But they have a new advertising company now and apparently...
read moreIt is sometimes said that top people in their fields are 'a mile deep and a yard wide' because they lack perspective about the broader world.Dr. Judit Nadal, 47, director of the Proteomics Facility at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College London, was politically correct - she was driving an electric car, a blue G-Wiz, when she died. It basically disintegrated when...
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Haute couture through history? It is when St. Pölten takes the Catwalk!If your only knowledge of Stone Age fashion is stricly limited to old Flintstones cartoons, you are in luck. On September 23rd the University of Applied Sciences (UAS) in St. Pölten, Austria will be parading clothing from over ten millennia, a journey through time and the world of fashion. Wilma Flintstone -...
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