All posts tagged topstoryops
Holy Fizz: Rethinking the Role of Coca-Cola in Rural Mexico
1906: “Great National Temperance Beverage” 1937: “America’s Favorite Moment” 1945: “ A Passport to Refreshment” 1948: “ Where There’s A Coke There’s Hospitality” 1955: “Americans Prefer Taste” 1958: “Refreshment the Whole World Prefers” 1975: “Look Up America” 1985: “America’s Real …
Twitter and the End of Historiography
On April 14, 2010, the Library of Congress announced on their blog that they would be archiving “every public tweet, ever, since Twitter’s inception in March 2006.” In
THE OCEAN VS OUTER SPACE
POSITION: OCEAN > SPACE Badass. That’s the ocean. Everything about it—its direct beauty, its intense and original perfume, its physical and spiritual power to move, the way it crashes and cradles, its unbridled
Vote for ____ in 2012
Much to my surprise, I agree with something Tom Friedman wrote in his weekly new york times col- umn from September 29 (“Where Did ‘We’ Go?”). As much as I usually
Objections
Things, historically speaking, go badly when only one person is allowed to have an opinion. It’s how dictators happen, and hugo Chavez’s variety tV show. Ask any Fukuyama
FUNNY WOMAN
Tina Fey is everywhere these days: writing and starring in television's best comedy, almost singlehandedly taking down Palin last fall (and momentarily reviving SNL). She even starred in




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Meghan: Interesting scientific findings Maggie! I've also recently read an art...