Be grateful for what you do have.
Daily Chart: how hunger has changed across the developing world. Since 1990, two-thirds of developing countries have reduced their populations’ hunger levels. But twenty-nine countries still suffer from “alarming” levels of hunger.
A litany of scandals in recent years have made the corruption of college sports constant front-page news. We profess outrage each time we learn that yet another student-athlete has been taking money under the table. But the real scandal is the very structure of college sports, wherein student-athletes generate billions of dollars for universities and private companies while earning nothing for themselves. Here, a leading civil-rights historian makes the case for paying college athletes—and reveals how a spate of lawsuits working their way through the courts could destroy the NCAA.
Our October 2011 cover story. Do you think college athletes should be paid? Read the rest at The Atlantic
Yes, it’s totally silly that one year after launching Tumblr, we’re moving the official Tumblr blog off of Wordpress because it was too much work to update.
We want to spotlight all of the neat stuff happening on Tumblr. So today we’re announcing the official Tumblr tumblelog: staff.tumblr.com
There’s a lot we want to do here. In addition to showing off the new features we’re building, we’re dying to brag about everything we see
Our final conversational piece this week comes from a rad mashup with SimpleGeo which means you can listen to the new Blink 182 “Neighborhood” album in your own “Neighborhood”.
Using SimpleGeo‘s GPS technology, it will locate your neighborhood through your browser and drop you in a chat experience combined with our listening technology. ENJOY!
