Clue or clew? Before the word clue became associated with mystery novels, it meant a ball of string or thread, a definition dating back to Greek mythology. Jessica Oreck unravels this mystery of the vernacular. H/T TEDEducation
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What are the canaries in the coal mine that is our global economy? The bank crisis in Cyprus? The election of a socialist president in France? Should American taxpayers expect European policies like bank deposit taxes, and 75 percent tax rates? Find out as Bill Whittle gives you the answers in Afterburner. H/T PJTV
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China’s remote Bama County is home to a significant number of the world’s oldest people but what is the secret of a long and happy life? Today, this remains the eternal unanswered question.
“I don’t have any secret of living a long life. You need to be a good person with a balanced mind,” says Huang Xu Ping, who is currently 113. According to locals, the abundance of “sunshine, clean air and water” is reason for their longevity. But with more and more tourists coming to see them, could the trappings of the modern world end their old way of life?
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Improv Everywhere organized a flash mob of 2,000 to pull off an epic April Fool’s Day prank — all of the participants walked, ran, biked, skipped or jumped backwards through Times Square in New York, much to the astonishment of tourists and bystanders.
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Fair pricing? Reliable technical support? Superior service? Who are you kidding?
Here’s the latest sketch from Extremely Decent, YouTube personalities who promise a new video every Tuesday, “or the next sketch is on us.”
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“If you really want to know people, start by looking in their bedrooms,” says Shereen El Feki, author of the new book Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World.
El Feki, who was raised in Canada and is a practicing Muslim, is the former vice chair of the U.N.’s Global Commission on HIV and Law. Born to an Egyptian father and Welsh mother, she was motivated by 9/11 to seek a better understanding of her Arab and Islamic heritage.
El Feki found that demonstrators for political freedom in Tahrir Square during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution had little interest in also promoting sexual freedom. That’s because most Arabs derive their sexual mores from their religious beliefs. The only way to bring more sexual freedom to the Arab world, she argues, is through Islam, which was far more tolerant of the needs of the flesh a thousand years ago than it is today. H/T Reason TV
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Hopper Penn accosted a member of the paparazzi, calling him the n-word. Is Hopper Penn learning such insults from his paparazzi-hating, Hugo Chavez-loving father Sean Penn? Hear what AlfonZo Rachel thinks in this edition of ZoNation. H/T PJTV
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Vihart goes into rewind mode. She explains, “This isn’t the epic video I’ve been working on for months, I just couldn’t sleep last night and had been reading too much Borges so this fell out.”
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Reason TV’s Nick Gillespie joins John Stossel to talk about the use of performance enhancing drugs in sports.
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The discovery of court documents exposes William Shakespeare as a ‘ruthless businessman’ who cheated on taxes and exploited the poor.
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