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South Korean whistleblower Kim Yong-chul breaks silence on Samsung

South Korean whistleblower Kim Yong-chul, who has written a book about his efforts to expose alleged corruption and greed at Samsung, faces censure and isolation.Continue

Adderall and Havard

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Men are brainier than women

Baroness Susan Greenfield is one of Britain's best-known female scientists; she's a professor of neurophysiology at the University of Oxford, a former director of the Royal Institution and an accomplished writer and broadcaster on scientific matters...

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All food is poison

Why I'm not a teacher

Wobble Girl

Japan is Weird

Not Safe for Work

Notsafeforwork

70s party

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Tik Tok Parody

The Internet Bah

After two decades online, I'm perplexed. It's not that I haven't had a gas of a good time on the Internet. I've met great people and even caught a hacker or two. But today, I'm uneasy about this most trendy and oversold community. Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive libraries and multimedia classrooms. They speak of electronic town meetings and virtual communities. Commerce and business will shift from offices and malls to networks and modems. And the freedom of digital networks will make government more democratic.Continue

Cost of technology

Women

How the stock market really works.

Japanese Breakup

He was charming and single, she was bored and stuck in a sterile marriage, and their encounter in the aisles of a local supermarket seemed like a chance for them to change their lives for the better.
But the affair ended in betrayal, recrimination and death after a sequence of events as lurid as the plot of a pulp novel.
Prosecutors in Tokyo called yesterday for a 17-year sentence for Takeshi Kuwabara for murdering his lover, Rie Isohata, last year.
But the most extraordinary thing about the case was not the killing — by strangulation, after a bitter argument last April — but the circumstances in which the couple met.
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U.S. dollar

India's vs China's economy

The scale of China has always fascinated merchants. In 19th century England, spinning-mill owners were convinced they would reap profits beyond their dreams if they could just get every Chinese to buy one handkerchief. Alas, the one man one handkerchief plan never took, and for multinationals hoping to tap China's masses, the country continues to disappoint. Since the global economic crisis, Beijing has constructed a way around a slump. Roads, ports, railways: Name it, and China is likely building it. But its consumers aren't pitching in. As a percentage of gross domestic product, Chinese consumption is the lowest of any major economy, at less than one-third. Almost all the country's growth this year has come from infrastructure spending or speculation in domestic assets. Continue