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14:56 UK time, Friday, 4 November 2011
A look at the stories ranking highly on various news sites.
of young men, according to a popular Wall Street Journal article. It claims groups of聽grown聽men meet up, start bands, even cut back on college courses all in appreciation of the magnificence of a cartoon series meant for little girls. They even have their own moniker: bronies. And apparently there is a lot of appreciation for the complex characters portrayed. "They have flaws, they have backgrounds they're ashamed of," explains 15-year-old Christian Leisner. At a brony gathering in Berkley, 27-year-old Ohad Kanne said his sisters wonder what is wrong with him but "luckily, we have this community that understands".
It鈥檚 nothing new for readers to flock to animal stories, rocketing them up most read lists of news sites. So it is unsurprising that Daily Mail readers are clicking on聽striking pictures of a . But what many may miss out on聽are the words written around these pictures. This is a shame (ahem) as the incredible detail like 鈥渢hey also took the opportunity to cut his nails鈥 would be missed. Gripping.
We鈥檝e had Beckham studies and Madonna studies, now a popular Washington Post article hails . This time Georgetown University is offering a course called Sociology of Hip-Hop - Urban Theodicy of Jay-Z. The piece explains that Georgetown isn鈥檛 dumbing down - or as Michael Dyson who鈥檚 leading the course puts it: 鈥淭his is not a class meant to sit around and go, 鈥極h man, those lyrics were dope鈥欌. Instead, he says, he wants people to ask 鈥溾淲hat鈥檚 the intellectual, theological, philosophical predicate for Jay-Z鈥檚 argument?鈥 Too much for a Friday afternoon, surely.
A popular Huffington Post article says a survey shows the . It claims that four out of 10 couples admit to having 鈥渢wo tiffs a day鈥 about whether or not to turn on the heating. So who has done the survey? Thermostat company Honeywell. Hmmm
