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Environment
How to Host the Greenest Olympics Ever
In order to make such a gigantic event as sustainable as possible, there's only one answer: Don't keep moving it.
Culture
FIFA Headscarf Ban Crushes Olympic Hopes for Iranian Women's Soccer
The Iranian women's soccer team has been banned from Olympic competition, all because of uniforms. Who's to blame: FIFA or the Iranian government?
Lifestyle
Surprise: 2012 Olympics Are Not Making the Brits Exercise
Even with the Olympics coming to town, Brits are still not buying into the idea of exercise.
Culture
Super Bowls (and Other Major Sporting Events) Are Terrible for Homeless People
The city of Dallas threatened its homeless with arrest if they frequented places close to Super Bowl events. This sort of thing happens a lot.
Lifestyle
How Curling Works
This helpful chart (full version here) explains curling, the most confounding sport of the Winter Olympics. Basically it's shuffleboard with...
The Community Board
Canada Strikes Back
In the wake of Olympics criticism, letter writers from the gentle north roar to their country's defense Original Source: Canada Strikes Back
News
National Anthem Quiz
The Olympics will start tomorrow. Once people start winning medals, you will hear a lot of national anthems, especially Scandanavian anthems. To...
Culture
Can the Olympics Really Bring Nations Together?
There's a good quick piece in New York magazine this week that answers the question in the negative. Actually, the writer Jason Zengerle goes a...
Technology
Olympic Medals Made out of Recycled Electronics
Apparently this isn't breaking news, but was to me, and is very cool: A Canadian company has found a way to source gold, silver, and bronze out of...
News
Obama 0 for 1 on Trips to Denmark
Obama's last-minute trip to Copenhagen to appeal to members of the Olympic Committee to pick his hometown (and, you know, U.S. city) has failed,...
Environment
If Tokyo Gets the Olympics, They'll Build This Thing
Who cares what Obama and Oprah think? If Tokyo gets the 2016 Olympic games, they'll build this stadium powered entirely by the sun. In fact,...
News
Obama Flies to Copenhagen to Lobby for Olympics; Will He Do the Same for Climate Change?
Quick poll: President Obama is indeed flying to Copenhagen to lobby on behalf of the city of Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Olympic games. Will he...
Transparency
Alcohol Olympics
Drinking has always been a mainstay of human civilization. In moments of joy, sadness, boredom, and even holiness, we drink. But what? And...
The Community Board
China NOW
I think your article about China was great. I think the Olympics came off great. But, in my opinion, we should revisit the country now that the...
Transparency
Lords of the Rings
The Japanese have a yen for the gold medal in Judo. Fencing has been an idée fixe for the French. In honor of the XXIX Olympiad, we take a...
