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The Century Of The Self
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Clever Images of Human Consumption
This image depicts 32,000 Barbies, equal to the number of elective breast augmentation surgeries performed every month in the US in 2006.
In 2005, 291,000 American women had bags implanted in their breasts, 324,000 Americans had fat vacuumed out of their bodies, and 231,000 had fat, skin and muscle cut from around their eyes.
If you include less common operations such as buttock lifts, pectoral implants and vaginal rejuvenations, as well as "minimally invasive" procedures such as Botox injections, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons estimates that Americans underwent at least 10.2 million cosmetic surgery procedures in 2006.
Findings from epidemiological studies indicate a link between cosmetic surgery and suicide. Five studies, including a US study of over 13,000 women who received breast implants and another of 24,000 from Canada (American Journal of Epidemiology, vol 164, p 334), set out to investigate the alleged link between silicone breast implants and cancers, autoimmune diseases and other disorders. Though they failed to confirm any such connection, another striking link did emerge: women who have received breast implants are two to three times as likely to kill themselves as those who have not.
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Twittering away Standards or Tweeting the Future of Journalism?
Reuters journalist, David Schlesinger, has been tweeting from the World Economic Forum, his tweets being published before Reuters got his stories out.
Here he discusses how journalism, as one of the great self-declared professions, now has a choice of platforms for publishing work, in his case social media sites and Reuters. Read his article.
Star Fans in their Homes
Photographer Steve Scholfield Land of the Free series capture the eccentricity of these enthusiasts, mainly Star Wars and Star Trek, relaxing at home with family and pets. Gold.
Tombstone Containing Electronic Memories
Japanese tombstone manufactures are embedding bar-codes into their tombs. The scanable bar-codes have the capacity to hold an electronic scrapbook of the life of the deceased. The audiovisual material can then be accessed through the mobile phones of their loved ones.
Guide to Online Video
Today the web fully supports video. And that requires a new paradigm for how you think about video, how you document your work, and how you reach out to your constituents.
This 7-part introduction is designed to get you thinking about online video, and to get you started on the path toward becoming a more web-centric organization. By See3 Communications.
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