It's surprising to me how many people don't seem to know that the theory that the legalization of prostitution actually reduces trafficking is actually heavily debatable. In countries like the Netherlands, it's been found that having an open and active red light district actually encouraged more trafficking - and I…

Many people who are smart in certain ways are very dumb in other ways.

Honestly, this sounds more like a liberation for me. My friend is a sports journalist and said that sometimes it feels a little like freshman year clubbing rules - you see what the other girl's wearing and you have to beat it in skin showing so that all the boys will like you more.

I am extremely scandalized by the un-strapped tops! I've always wondered how anybody was able to pull off the bandeau top with smaller boobs and now I know it is ALL a LIE.

Wait, are we getting older younger or are we staying younger too long?

Invest your Chinese New Year/Christmas money in Amazon and Apple stocks. Yes, Amazon looks like it's near dead after the tech boom & bust, but they are going to own all your shopping in the future.

I was the one to give the talk/books/advice to my little sister (she's 10 years younger than I am) - which I think was actually a good thing. Besides all the "period and pregnancy stuff," I also was able to at least make her somewhat aware of the structures surrounding male-female interactions.

It has something to do with your eyes looking larger if you have double-lidded eyelids, which may have come down from the North, where the seat of power in China was for quite a while.

What's interesting is that it's actually quite hard to grow the female plants, which are the ones that are actually worth smoking. If they actually managed to grow female plants, then that is pretty amazing considering the climate/amount of sunshine.

I admit, I was one of the people who was disappointed in Girls because it was such a white view of a world that I happened to know was not all white, but oh. goodness. gracious. people need to fuck off about Lena Dunham. Even if you don't like her show, it positively gives me conniptions the amount of people willing…

I bet you see what you want to see. And when you want to see a dickwad "winning", you don't watch past minute two of this video.

After a month or so of being unemployed, I've realized I've begun to play this head game with HR response emails.

Not a bad article at all, but I thought it was funny that...

I wish they still made flip phones! I hate touchpad keypads and worrying about scratching that damn screen all the time.

What's a "emphasizing my potential" phrase besides "I have potential, you gotta believe it!"?

I'm sure someone's already mentioned this, but I think the assumption that using data to determine points where you lose people is a "nerdy guy" thing is sexist in itself. If supermarkets can use what you buy to determine if you're pregnant, or use Harvard professor ranking data to show inherent bias against female…

That's an interesting theory. Another theory I read about way back in college purported that the reason fashion trends change is so that there will always be a class to look up to. The ones in power will always be dictating how the masses should be dressed in order to differentiate themselves from the masses. As soon…

Was in Cambridge here. They do it here too. I've been called on to translate "No, they're not being racist, you're just not allowed to go there. That's what the sign says."

I don't know. I'm Chinese-American and have lived for quite a while in China (speaking Chinese, but maybe not in the specific local regional accent) and I still get the "Where are you from?" question all the time there followed by a long debate about what area of China my features must come from (I have a Hunan face,…

I can only imagine a NASA kickstarter working if there was hot aliens, something on Mars explodes every now and then, and it was all broadcast back in HD.