Postcard from Madagascar: In Pursuit of the Plowshare Tortoise
This week’s issue features William Finnegan’s piece about a Manhattan night-life baron’s race to save the world’s rarest species of tortoise: the angonoka, or plowshare tortoise, which is coveted by collectors on the illegal market. We sent the South Africa-based photographer Jonathan Torgovnik to Madagascar, home of the last remaining habitat for these animals, to capture that night-life baron, Eric Goode, in the field with the tortoises he has committed himself to protect.- For more of Torgovnik’s photos from Madagascar: http://nyr.kr/xNAjAh
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Elite Wall Street Donations Jumped 700% in the Last 20 Years
Banks “frankly own the place,” Sen. Dick Durbin famously said of Washington during the debate over financial regulation in 2010. And when it comes to total contributions for big donors, you can see what he’s talking about in this chart. (FIRE = the Finance, Insurance and Real Estate sector) Read more.
[Image: Sunlight Foundation/Highcharts]](http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyh86sM0en1qcokc4o1_400.png)
Elite Wall Street Donations Jumped 700% in the Last 20 Years
Banks “frankly own the place,” Sen. Dick Durbin famously said of Washington during the debate over financial regulation in 2010. And when it comes to total contributions for big donors, you can see what he’s talking about in this chart. (FIRE = the Finance, Insurance and Real Estate sector) Read more.
[Image: Sunlight Foundation/Highcharts]
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Where Did All the Workers Go? 60 Years of Economic Change in 1 Graph
President Obama’s State of the Union speech was surprisingly bullish on reviving manufacturing, prompting one very clever person on Twitter to say something along the lines of: “Democrats want the economy of the 1950s, while Republicans just want to live there.”
It got me thinking: What did the economy look like in the 1950s? If you could organize all the jobs into buckets and compare the paper-shuffling professional services bucket to the manufacturing bucket, what would they look like around 1950, and how has the picture changed in the last 60 years? Read more.
[Image: Brian McGill and Peter Bell/National Journal]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyfd35PcEC1qcokc4o1_400.png)
Where Did All the Workers Go? 60 Years of Economic Change in 1 Graph
President Obama’s State of the Union speech was surprisingly bullish on reviving manufacturing, prompting one very clever person on Twitter to say something along the lines of: “Democrats want the economy of the 1950s, while Republicans just want to live there.”
It got me thinking: What did the economy look like in the 1950s? If you could organize all the jobs into buckets and compare the paper-shuffling professional services bucket to the manufacturing bucket, what would they look like around 1950, and how has the picture changed in the last 60 years? Read more.
[Image: Brian McGill and Peter Bell/National Journal]
What is “kung fu?” Kung Fu is time. The longer you practice, the deeper will be your kung fu.
Chin Na: The Art of Seizing and Grappling
Just came back from a financial seminar
The three main takeaways I got out of the two hour session were:
- Understand the basic workings of what is available
- Use your common sense
- Do not be greedy
The first victims of Luftwaffe bombing in England during WWII: a pair of rabbits.
via RealTimeWWII on Twitter — the war as it happened, in 1939.
(Source: twitter.com)
They were trying to levitate the plaza. Don’t interrupt my meditation practice, bro! #OccupyNothingness
(Source: madeygaga)
