Como sempre recomendo, todo mundo devia ler o Weekly Review da Harper's. Você assina e recebe por e-mail, toda terça-feira, um texto brilhante que encontra poesia, com uma dose saudável de sarcasmo e crítica, no ritmo das notícias da semana. É sensacional.
Semana passada eles mandaram o Yearly Review:
Thousands of people died in the Iraqi civil war, which was costing the United States $100,000 a minute. U.S. forces began to negotiate with Sunni insurgents, and the Pentagon, short of buglers who can play taps at military funerals, ordered 700 automated digital bugles.
Polls found that while only 36 percent of Americans worry a great deal about global warming, 90 percent were prepared to fight its effects by caulking.
Twenty percent of U.S. teenagers admitted to huffing household products in order to get high. SAT scores in the United States showed the largest decline in 31 years, and after 15,000 tries a California scientist was able to teach starlings some grammar. At least 2.5 million American children were taking antipsychotic drugs; the same number of Kenyans were close to starvation. The United Nations said that 1,200 people were dying in Congo each day, and Zimbabwe faced an acute tampon shortage. At a zoo in the Netherlands three bears ate a monkey.
("Caulking", acabo de descobrir, é "vedação".)
Serve também para descobrir algumas notinhas importantes que você deixa passar batido durante a semana. Ou, no caso, durante o ano. Sério que descobriram que computadores quânticos atingem resultados sem fazer cálculos?
