Public Notes
by Max Becher
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Countries
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SNL and the international comedy delay
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Saturady Night Live is now being licensed, not just imitated, in other countries (see links): Japan , Korea , Spain , Italy , Brazil ...
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European and American population scales in relation to economic diversity
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I wonder if there is a connection between the fact that Europe has countries with more similar population sizes and more equitable distribut...
God, guns, and gold
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A few decades ago it first occurred to me that American conservatism can be boiled down to an obsession with god, guns, and money (or to com...
Americans' knowledge of geography is inversely proportional to their influence on it.
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Or, more precise but longer: The influence of the American economy and foreign policy on the world is inversely proportional to the American...
Cars create an environment which demands cars.
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Cars create an environment in which the pedestrian seems lost, inefficient, backwards, derelict. In the US, pedestrians on the side of the r...
Switzerland is a clock.
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This could be meant as a reference to Harry Lime in The Third Man: " In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of dem...
The Netherlands repeat a picture of tall people on big bikes in front of small houses made of tiny bricks and gigantic windows.
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