oh, larissa

I love the asymmetrical Rick Owens men’s leather jacket. (via)

Whenever Norway’s extensive social welfare system and high standard of living is discussed, conservatives like to say that they can only afford it because they are sitting on so much oil.

If that’s the case, then why does Sweden have a nearly identical system and standard of living, without much oil at all?

(click to enlarge; via axinomancy)

Why Cutting Carbon Emissions is not Enough

Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and UN Environment Program Executive Director, on lessons from the Montreal Protocol on chlorofluorocarbons in relation to COP15’s focus on carbon emissions and climate mitigation.

Atheists are the most mistrusted group in America

“It is interesting to note that this group (which incidentally includes the great majority of intellectuals, scientists, and philosophers) is not largely accepted within the greater American society…  Findings are from a recent article published in the American Sociological Review by Penny Edgell, Joseph Gerteis, and Douglas Hartmann.  A national survey found that they are the most mistrusted group in comparison to nine others: religious groups (Muslims, conservative Christians, Jews), racial groups (Hispanics, Asian Americans, African Americans, and White Americans), homosexuals, and recent immigrants.”  (via Psychology Today)

I really like the contrast here.

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jakelodwick:

This song is from the new Muse album. I like the album so far because it makes me feel like I’m standing up to an overwhelming authority.

I am a fan of some of MUSE but this is so completely unexpected and makes me want to buy the new album NOW.

Lines, lines, lines! Eric Rasmussen’s home in Sag Harbor as designed by Paul Masi. Skatelite, a pressed paper-and-resin material made for skateboard parks, covers the floor and counters.

From Donna Karan’s spring show.

“In its annual “World Development Report” published on Tuesday September 15th, the World Bank notes that they accounted for 64% of global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels between 1850 and 2005. In 2005 itself, however, this share had fallen to 50%, and middle-income countries such as India and China (now the world’s biggest emitter) accounted for almost half of CO2 emissions and more than half of wider greenhouse-gas emissions. But rich countries’ 1 billion people emit far more on a per person basis compared with the 4.2 billion people who live in middle-income countries.”

Agnes Thor

Douglas Coupland: the writer who sees into the future

“In the end I never really understand what Coupland feels about the future, but he doesn’t seem to mind…

A friend asked him recently, if he had the choice would he go back to the 90s? He might as well have suggested returning to the middle ages; Coupland was horrified.

“No! Because I would miss the sense of frontier that we have right now. Soon it won’t be the internet any more, it’ll just be like air, like somehow they’ll integrate the internet into the air. And God’s name will have ended up being Google, because that’s the way it worked out.

“It could have worked out that God’s name ended up being Yahoo, of course,” he adds. “But they lost out.”“