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faddism
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The best disinfectant
A start-up’s plan to make US health care cheaper: Tell people what it costs
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Why GM’s car sales are cratering in Europe while Ford’s are almost steady
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Rabbit Hole
The Google footnote that perfectly captures US government surveillance secrecy
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The unbearable sweetness
The US government lets sugar farmers charge inflated prices, and now it’s paying them, too
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China’s pricey seafood fetish is pushing fish prices to record highs
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bamboo curtain
North Korea’s new rich love buying refrigerators, but not for what you’d think
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tinderbox
Brazilians spend as much as 26% of their income to ride the bus
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The secret to viral success is there is no secret to viral success
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health and wealth
Say goodbye to the company’s summer softball tournament—and all those emails about practicing for it
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Why Canada will quickly forgive its deviant mayors
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Shifted During Flight
The average destination of international flights from every country in the world
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All the web's a stage
3D opera, Shakespeare on Twitter, and donkeys on Google+: How the performing arts got wired
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playing host
Burma’s beautiful version of hacky sack is driving its neighbors nuts
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O_O
Jack Lew’s signature loses a few loops for its US currency debut
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A Prius costs $154,000 in Singapore and people are still buying them
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The new scourges of the sea: Nigerian pirates
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Shibor
Here’s what’s behind the Chinese cash crunch
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Robots won’t be stealing our paychecks in the future—they already have
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free mail
Americans gave away online privacy to advertisers long ago
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twitter's hero
Cory Booker says Washington could use a small-town mayor with a big view
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end game
Here’s what will really happen to global growth if China’s economy suddenly tanks
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choose your poison
This cult brand made Indians the world’s biggest rum drinkers
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scuttlebutt
Sometimes even Steve Jobs got his Apple news from rumor sites
Brazil's economy grew 0.6% in the third quarter, according its national statistics agency today, about half the rate expected by most economists and Brazil's finance minister Guido Mantega. Two days ago, Mantega told reporters that economy had probably expanded between 1% and 1.3%, compared the previous quarter. The data is also more disappointing given government stimulus efforts to inspire investment. At this rate, Brazil – the slowest growing economy of the BRIC bloc that includes Russia, India and China – will have trouble meeting its goal of 4% growth in 2013.
