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We discovered the work pictured below, created by artist Mike Wilkins in 1987, at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. (Now that we are back in the States, we will blog about our impressions of Havana in the next … Continue reading →

1. Is it unethical for Americans to visit Cuba? (via Market Watch) 2. Luxury mall in Havana (via Slate) 3. Meet Cuba’s first internet entrepreneurs (via TechCrunch) 4. Cuba after communism (via Council on Foreign Relations) 5. Jacob Forever (via YouTube)

Keep moving and go visit some other website, since we won’t be blogging during the next two weeks. (We will be visiting the University of Havana and going on a family vacation in Cuba until the middle of May.) Hasta … Continue reading →

Why are most contemporary minivans and SUVs so damn ugly and uncool? (The new Jeep Compass is especially hideous.) Via Popular Mechanics, check out this essay by Ben Stewart on the original VW bus.

What question keeps you up at night? By way of example, in the opening scene of the movie “The Social Network,” a fictional Mark Zuckerberg begins by asking, “How do you distinguish yourself in a population of people who all … Continue reading →

Why don’t award shows reveal the actual vote tallies (not just the winners) when handing out awards? We were bummed, for example, that Luke Bryan did not win the “entertainer of the year” award and that “Dig your roots” didn’t … Continue reading →