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The price of love
Your wedding is meant to be one of the happiest days of your life. It will also probably be the most expensive. In 2017 tying the knot cost the average American couple $26,000, according to the Wedding Report, a market-research firm. The country’s newlyweds spent a total of $56.2bn last year on getting hitched at 2.2m ceremonies, more than the annual GDP of half the countries of the world.
There’s a huge global black market for fake “designer” chairs
It's time to learn the difference between design and mere style.
Delicious but cruel. Can foie gras be produced and enjoyed ethically? | Aeon Videos
Foie gras is a delicacy that dates back millennia, and is loved by chefs and connoisseurs for its rich texture and flavour. The food has recently faced a major backlash, however, due to the inhumane way in which it’s produced, which involves tube-feeding geese and ducks to engorge their livers. In this short film, the US director Julian Tran travels to Extremadura in Spain, where Eduardo Sousa and Diego Labourdette produce perhaps the world’s only ‘ethical foie gras’, made by exploiting local geese’s natural instinct to gorge themselves before their winter migration. While the method results in a more widely varied product, Sousa is content to sacrifice productivity for a more humane delicacy – one that he enjoys only at Easter.
Ecommerce as Video’s Killer App
As online video platforms seek a business model beyond advertising, and short videos start to look more and more like commercials, it turns out that commerce may be video’s killer app. And not only…
Top 5 investigative videos of the week: “Winning” Afghanistan
From predatory soldiers to corrupt politicians, a look at the finest documentaries YouTube has to offer
A Private Investigator Wanted to Prove His Clients Innocent. Were His Methods His Own Undoing? by Saki Knafo · Longform
In the poorest congressional district in the country, where thousands of people are arrested each year, one former cop with a complicated past made high-profile cases fall apart by insisting that the ends justified his means.
W.E.B. Du Bois Creates Revolutionary, Artistic Data Visualizations Showing the Economic Plight of African-Americans (1900)
Few people have done more to accurately foresee and help shape the century ahead of them as W.E.B. Du Bois. And perhaps few intellectuals from the early twentieth century still have as much critical relevance to our contemporary global crises.
Steve Jobs: "The unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education"
What does Steve Jobs have to say about education reform? You might be surprised.
What Really Drives Ivanka Trump?
One of the greatest enigmas of 2016, explained.
Life on Mars? The fantasy that fuels Curiosity – Michael Hanlon | Aeon Essays
Our curiosity about the Red Planet has always been tinged with fantasy – but wishful thinking needn’t be mistaken
You Can Go to the Top of Africa, But You're Not Getting a Cocktail
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