Spaghetti Tacos: Silly Enough for Young Eaters [via The New York Times] A visual gag on a Nickelodeon show has spawned a new trend, the trendspotting New York Times reports: spaghetti tacos. Syracuse University pop culture professor Robert Thompson provides some expert commentary: “This combination seems to be an inevitability, sort of like chocolate and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘France’
Morning Briefing: 7 October 2010
Posted in Morning Briefing, tagged Art, France, New York Times, Spaghetti Tacos, Trends on October 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The French Burqa Ban and America
Posted in Law, Politics, tagged Burqas, Constitutionality, France, Islam on September 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
France’s senate yesterday approved by 246-1 (with 100 abstentions) a ban on burqas, a traditional Muslim garment for women that completely obscures the face. The ban comes with some severe penalties: women caught wearing burqas or other obscuring veils in public face a €150 fine and a “citizenship course”; men who force women to wear [...]
Morning Briefing: 15 September 2010
Posted in Morning Briefing, tagged Chimpanzees, Doctorates, France, Islam on September 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Report: More women than men in U.S. earned doctorates last year for first time [via The Washington Post] Women have been increasingly present in academia, but just recently they passed a new benchmark: for the first time ever, more women that men earned doctorates last year, the Council of Graduate Schools reported. In 2008-09, 28,962 [...]
Morning Briefing: 9 September 2010
Posted in Morning Briefing, tagged Fish, France, Tom Stoppard, Turkey on September 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
‘Desperate’ Sir Tom Stoppard seeks death by bookcase [via The Daily Telegraph] Tom Stoppard, the British playwright responsible for “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” said in a recent interview that he would like to be killed by a falling bookcase. “I have a spasm of envy for the person that was killed by a falling [...]
