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Six Masai warriors, in London to run the London Marathon for charity, give a difficult-to-believe interview with the Guardian: “I miss meat and blood … gulfstream/2424

Clay Shirky’s tantalising suggestion that perhaps TV is a temporary spare-time-filling measure, and that sometime soon we’re going to come up with … gulfstream/2431

TV show invites five Pacific tribesman to the UK. What they find strange: homelessness, artificial insemination of pigs, the time spent cleaning and washing … gulfstream/2326

The best places to live, according some calculation. (Only three countries in the top ten: Canada, Australia and Switzerland.) The problem with … gulfstream/1845

The restaurants in Ikea’s German stores are apparently very popular: there’s only 37 stores, but they have the 11th highest revenue.“Flocks … gulfstream/1921

Eurasians are more beautiful, healthy, intelligent, etc.? (Nice theory, not very convincing.) gulfstream/1945

Why is there such a big market for skin lightening creams in Asia? (“4 out of 10 women in Hong Kong, Malaysia, the Philippines, South Korea and Taiwan … gulfstream/2073

Andrew Sullivan wants to call the view that “religious faith is so important that it must also have a precise political agenda” Christianist (parallels … gulfstream/2085