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...people actually have interesting thoughts on a regular basis, and a few of the better blogs began drawing sizable audiences. Blogs multiplied and evolved, slowly becoming conduits for legitimate news and serious thought. In 1999 a few companies began offering free make-your-own-blog software, which turbocharged the phenomenon. By 2002, Pyra Labs, which makes software for creating blogs, claimed 970,000 users...
Although there are a few Christmas attractions, such as reindeer and sleigh rides on tree farms, the weeks leading up to Halloween and Thanksgiving are the peak season for agritourism, especially in the Midwest, where the phenomenon is booming. Young's Jersey Dairy in Yellow Springs, Ohio, attracts more than 1.4 million visitors a year to its dairy farm, which also offers baseball batting cages, a miniature-golf course and homemade ice cream. Eckert's Country Farm & Stores, near St. Louis, Mo., brings in $10 million annually, about 80% of the farm's revenues, from its restaurants, bakery and gift...
Henry: Is there something inherently wrong with Pitchfork, a phenomenon that sparked a convergence in the evolution of musical tastes and the boring conversations about who discovered Modest Mouse first? Maybe not. But there IS something wrong with taking any musical advice at its word, and, what’s more, with ignoring certain music because other people choose...
...year-old remains of a 1-m-tall woman with a braincase the size of a chimpanzee were discovered at the same site. Some experts remain skeptical, saying that the specimens are Homo sapiens, whose diminutive size may be the result of a genetic disease or an adaptive phenomenon known as island dwarfism...
What makes this phenomenon intriguing is that its subtly yet substantially regressive nature is masked by a veneer of progressiveness. Unlike those of the 1950s, today’s women are not forced to play any traditional female roles. Because of this, some might argue that the gender revolution has pushed through a full cycle: young women like Anne are now assuming the roles their grandmothers once filled, not by default but as a deliberate choice...