Here’s some of our top picks for stories in culture:
The New York Times: Islamic Poultry for Latino Tables (Yes, They Have Chilies, Too) – LOS ANGELES “” Sebastian Flores walked out of Al Salam PollerÃa with a free bag of white-feathered chicken heads. Mr. Flores, 26, an immigrant and a regular customer of Al Salam, a Muslim, family-owned halal poultry shop, was driving home when he developed a craving for the treat. He was planning on sprinkling the chicken heads with poultry seasoning and roasting them in the oven, the way they did back home in Puebla, Mexico”…Continue Reading
Fast Company: The Rise Of Visual Social Media – Social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest have ushered in visual marketing as the breakout trend for 2012. When it comes to their products, businesses are learning to show, not tell, and visual content sites are fueling our desire for beautiful photography and sensational design. Two years ago, marketers were spreading the maxim that “content is king,” but now, it seems, “a picture really is worth a thousand words.””…Continue Reading
Good: ‘Girls Who Code’ Graduates Its First Class – In his crowd-rocking speech at the Democratic National Convention, President Bill Clinton noted that “the old economy is not coming back. We’ve got to build a new one and educate people for those new jobs.”Girls Who Code, the New York City-based nonprofit that launched last spring with the goal of ensuring teen girls from low-income backgrounds are ready for the tech economy is certainly part of that educational process and they’re closing the computer science gender gap to boot. They just graduated their inaugural coding and tech bootcamp class of 20 girls between the ages of 13- to 17-years-old”…Continue Reading
Time: Are Prisoners Entitled to Sex Changes – In Garamba National Park in the northeastern corner of Congo, thousands of elephants are being killed each year for their tusks, their carcasses discarded like hair clippings on a barbershop’s floor. In a beautiful and brutal report, New York Times reporter Jeffrey Gettleman describes the carnage, both animal and human, in harrowing detail. Last year, he writes, “broke the record for the amount of illegal ivory seized worldwide, at 38.8 tons (equaling the tusks from more than 4,000 dead elephants)”…Continue Reading