Douglas Coupland: Why I love shopping

I had a hard time selecting a blockquote from Douglas Coupland's essay on retail shopping because every paragraph is a gem.

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Russian Wikipedia Editors Weighing Options After Site Is Blacklisted In Russia

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Watch this mind-blowing spintop demonstration

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A 12-year-old girl got a higher IQ score than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking

Nicole Barr, a 12-year-old in Essex, London, just scored a 162 on her Mensa IQ test — that's two points higher than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking scored.

A "genius" score on the test is a 140

See also: Can you solve this super simple logic question that's stumping the Internet?

Nicole's father, Jim Barr, took Nicole to take the test with the hunch that she would likely be accepted into Mensa

“I was expecting her to do well. I knew she had a quick mind for working out problems and puzzles,” Jim told Yahoo. “I didn’t want to put any pressure on her, so we went for the fun of it. I had the idea in my mind that she would get into Mensa, but when I got the results back, I thought, ‘Wow that’s a high score!’ It wasn’t until later that I learned it was the top score possible on that test.” Read more...

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