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Current events, yoga, economics, food, travel, and all things cute.
Interests:
Current events, yoga, economics, food, travel, and all things cute.
The Most Popular Month for Birthdays
Amitabh Chandra, a professor of public policy at the Harvard University, earlier published a data table detailing how many babies were born in the United States on each date between 1973 and 1999. September 16th happens to be the most common birthday while December 25th is the least popular birthday
Matt Stiles, data journalist at NPR, converted this NYT table into a static heatmap for easy visualization (the darker the color, the higher the probability of births happening on that date) and Andy Kriebel made an interactive heatmap of the same data using Tableau – this version lets you hover over any cell and you can see the underlying data.
MY BIRTHDAY IS THE MOST COMMON BIRTHDAY WHATWHATWHAT
Of each dollar the federal government spends, how much goes to defense? How much goes to Social Security? How much goes to interest on the debt? And how has this sort of thing changed over time?
This graphic answers these questions. It shows the major components of federal spending 50 years ago, 25 years ago, and last year.
Read more here.
Excuse the ugly cell phone photo, but this is BIG NEWS. Went to Momofuku Ssam Bar (again) with a big group on Monday night and had a five-course prix-fixe menu with the famous bo ssam. It’s a huge whole pork shoulder that just peels away from the bone so easily, with the best skin ever. Not seen in the photo is how it’s served with Bibb lettuce and various sauces.
Even bigger news is that we spotted David Chang, the father of the Momofuku empire, at the table next to us entertaining some of his important-looking clients. CRAZY.
Even if they didn’t agree with Obama on everything in 2008, many in the financial industry looked at him then and saw a reflection of their imagined best selves: brainy, self-made, above the mewlings and histrionics of partisan politics. He seemed like the kind of Democrat even white-shoe Republican bankers and libertarian hedge-funders could get behind, and many of them did.
(Source: notalkingplz)
(via Matt Abramcyk and Nadine Ferber’s Party Primer - Interactive Feature - T Magazine)
THE DRINKS
‘‘I’m a wine gal,’’ says Ferber, who always has a bottle of Sancerre handy (her current favorite: Michel Brock). Abramcyk recommends Campari sunrises made with soda and a splash of orange juice, and garnished with a blood orange slice. ‘‘You can drink it in the morning — all day long,’’ he says, ‘‘though I’m sure at some point you’d fall asleep.’’
(via @raekwon | Princeton frat house!!! | Webstagram - the best Instagram viewer)
Raekwon posts photo of himself performing at Princeton, hilarity ensues. A collection of some noteworthy comments:
