Politisches Plakat. This poster blog boasts images of over 1,900 political posters from the radical left in Germany. They have a Flickr account, too! (thanks sandy)
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Girl Power. In advance of the 20th Human Development Index release, a new paper finds that a country’s economic development does not necessarily lead to human development factors like longer life expectancy, community health, or even a decent standard of living: “Although correlated, we do not find evidence to suggest that human development trends can be explained by factors associated with economic growth.… Social factors seem to be driving the aggregate human development story.… We believe the underlying drivers of these changes are linked to individual and household-level decisions concerning fertility and female schooling.… Changes in gender roles (literacy, fertility and labor participation) are a robust driver of human development achievements over time.” (via)  ¶

Conflict Kitchen. “A take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries that the United States is in conflict with. The food is served out of a take-out style storefront, which will rotate identities every 4 months to highlight another country.” The current iteration, Kubideh Kitchen, serves Iranian kubideh from a stylish pop-up facade. “The sandwich is packaged in a custom-designed wrapper that includes interviews with Iranians both in Pittsburgh and Iran on subjects ranging from Iranian food and poetry to the current political turmoil.”  ¶