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This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor - the Sunday Times Bestseller by Adam Kay

airport security, butterfly effect, Kinder Surprise, post-work, Skype

This is my first leap year working as a doctor and the Great British public have pulled it out of the bag for me with a very, very specific injury. Patient JB decided to take advantage of tradition and propose to her boyfriend – going to the expense of buying an engagement ring, the trouble of putting it inside a Kinder Surprise egg and the imagination of inserting it vaginally. She would suggest some finger-work to her partner, he would discover it, retrieve it, and then she would go down on one knee (and, presumably, him). Equal parts unexpected, disgusting and, I suppose, romantic. Unfortunately, he was unable to retrieve it as planned – it had rotated itself lengthwise – and no amount of shoogling from either of them would get this particular goose to lay her golden egg.

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She hadn’t told me about the contents of the egg either at this point, so there was a moment of confusion for both me and the boyfriend when she asked him to open it. I gave him a pair of latex gloves, sandblasting the very last pico-trace of romance from the scenario. She popped the question and he said yes; presumably out of shock, or fear of what a woman who does that with a Kinder Surprise would do to him if spurned. I wonder where the best man will keep the wedding bands during the ceremony? Monday, 17 March 2008 I’m unsure who decided that junior doctors have so much spare time on our hands that we should conduct annual audits, but the audit meeting is this week, so I’m sitting reviewing patient notes after my night shift, going through the motions like Lady Chatterley in her marriage to the cockless Sir Clifford.

Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World by Srdja Popovic, Matthew Miller

Albert Einstein, Berlin Wall, British Empire, corporate governance, desegregation, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Jane Jacobs, Kibera, Kickstarter, Kinder Surprise, Mahatma Gandhi, McMansion, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mohammed Bouazizi, Nelson Mandela, Occupy movement, Rosa Parks, Twitter Arab Spring, urban planning, urban sprawl

So it went a number of times, until nally even the most idealistic of the bunch realized that they would never be able to stage a demonstration in town. But their toys could. (illustration credit 5.4) One freezing day—imagine Siberia in February—the activists gathered in the center of town with all of their children’s favorite playthings. They had a hundred gurines collected from the popular candy-toy combo the Kinder Surprise egg. They had a hundred Lego men. Twenty toy soldiers. Fifteen plush animals. Ten model cars. The toys were all carrying tiny signs—the penguins crying out against corruption, the moose denouncing electoral malpractice. Snapshots were taken, of course, and soon all of Russia learned about the famous toy protest.

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Within weeks, teddy bears, action gures, and stu ed animals all across the vast country were mobilized, given small hand-painted signs, and sent to the streets. Encouraged by the spread of this miniature protest movement, the Barnaul organizers of the original toy rally applied to hold another Lego and Kinder Surprise demonstration in their city, but by now the humorless Russian authorities had had enough of all these disloyal toys. The Kremlindirected bureaucracy decided to put an end to the childish protests once and for all. In the local paper, the government informed the public that congregations of inanimate objects could be considered against the law.

Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food by Chris van Tulleken

"Friedman doctrine" OR "shareholder theory", biofilm, carbon footprint, clean water, Columbian Exchange, conceptual framework, cotton gin, COVID-19, delayed gratification, Donald Trump, food desert, Gary Taubes, George Floyd, global supply chain, Helicobacter pylori, Kinder Surprise, longitudinal study, luminiferous ether, meta-analysis, microbiome, NOVA classification, parabiotic, Peter Thiel, phenotype, profit motive, randomized controlled trial, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits, Stanford marshmallow experiment, twin studies, ultra-processed food, Vanguard fund, Walter Mischel, Wayback Machine

Officials have been particularly alarmed by childhood obesity rates that are among the world’s highest, with over half of six-year-old children overweight or obese. In 2016, Chile implemented a set of policies that put marketing restrictions and mandatory black octagonal labels on foods and drinks high in energy, sugar, sodium and saturated fat. These foods were also banned in schools and heavily taxed.46 These policies banned treats from Kinder Surprise eggs and removed cartoon animals, including Tony the Tiger and Cheetos’ Chester Cheetah, from packaging. PepsiCo, the maker of Cheetos, and Kellogg’s, producer of Frosted Flakes (known in the UK as Frosties), have gone to court, arguing that the regulations infringe on their intellectual property, but at the time of writing Tony and Chester are not on the packs.‡ It was a masterclass in the technical side of policy making, developed in consultation with the public and then tested and trialled.

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Formula in every country is associated with significantly increased risks of all-cause mortality, diarrhoea and pneumonia mortality,29 obesity and type 2 diabetes,30 otitis media,31 malocclusion,32 asthma33 and sudden infant death syndrome.34 Non-breastfed children also demonstrate significantly lower IQ scores even after accounting for maternal IQ.35 Formula feeding affects maternal health primarily due to foregone protective effects of breastfeeding against ovarian cancer, breast cancer and type 2 diabetes.36 † Like Dr Helen Crawley, for example, who worked with Oliver for years and emphasised Oliver’s good intentions to me. ‡ After the banning of Kinder Surprise, a company executive from Ferrero claimed that the toy was not a promotional gadget but an ‘intrinsic part of the treat’, while the Italian ambassador to Chile accused a public health minister of waging ‘food terrorism’.47 20. What to do if you want to stop eating UPF If you personally want to stop eating UPF, then you could try what Xand and I did: go on an 80 per cent UPF diet for a few days.

Peers Inc: How People and Platforms Are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism by Robin Chase

Airbnb, Amazon Web Services, Andy Kessler, Anthropocene, Apollo 13, banking crisis, barriers to entry, basic income, Benevolent Dictator For Life (BDFL), bike sharing, bitcoin, blockchain, Burning Man, business climate, call centre, car-free, carbon tax, circular economy, cloud computing, collaborative consumption, collaborative economy, collective bargaining, commoditize, congestion charging, creative destruction, crowdsourcing, cryptocurrency, data science, deal flow, decarbonisation, different worldview, do-ocracy, don't be evil, Donald Shoup, Elon Musk, en.wikipedia.org, Ethereum, ethereum blockchain, Eyjafjallajökull, Ferguson, Missouri, Firefox, Free Software Foundation, frictionless, Gini coefficient, GPS: selective availability, high-speed rail, hive mind, income inequality, independent contractor, index fund, informal economy, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Internet of things, Jane Jacobs, Jeff Bezos, jimmy wales, job satisfaction, Kickstarter, Kinder Surprise, language acquisition, Larry Ellison, Lean Startup, low interest rates, Lyft, machine readable, means of production, megacity, Minecraft, minimum viable product, Network effects, new economy, Oculus Rift, off-the-grid, openstreetmap, optical character recognition, pattern recognition, peer-to-peer, peer-to-peer lending, peer-to-peer model, Post-Keynesian economics, Richard Stallman, ride hailing / ride sharing, Ronald Coase, Ronald Reagan, Salesforce, Satoshi Nakamoto, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, self-driving car, shareholder value, sharing economy, Silicon Valley, six sigma, Skype, smart cities, smart grid, Snapchat, sovereign wealth fund, Steve Crocker, Steve Jobs, Steven Levy, TaskRabbit, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, The Future of Employment, the long tail, The Nature of the Firm, Tragedy of the Commons, transaction costs, Turing test, turn-by-turn navigation, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, vertical integration, Zipcar

“Crowdsourcing Apps and Government Innovation,” talk given by Peter Corbett, iStrategyLabs CEO, fedscoop, ca. 2011, http://vimeo.com/25385952. 21. Will Bradden, “Henri, Paw de Deux,” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q34z5dCmC4M. 22. Vi Hart, “Wind and Mr. Ug,” 2011, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mdEsouIXGM. 23. DC Toy Collector, “Giant Princess Kinder Surprise Eggs Disney Frozen Elsa Anna Minnie Mickey PlayDoh Huevos Sorpresa,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R91WnllMcNA. 24. Marco della Cava, “SoundCloud’s Growth Tempts Suitors,” USA Today, May 20, 2014. 25. Ibid. 26. Josh Dean, “Is This the World’s Most Creative Manufacturer?,” Inc.com, October 2013. 27.

Money Men: A Hot Startup, a Billion Dollar Fraud, a Fight for the Truth by Dan McCrum

air gap, Amazon Web Services, Bernie Madoff, Big Tech, bitcoin, Brexit referendum, Buckminster Fuller, call centre, Cambridge Analytica, centre right, Citizen Lab, corporate governance, corporate raider, COVID-19, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, fake news, forensic accounting, Internet Archive, Kinder Surprise, lockdown, Market Wizards by Jack D. Schwager, multilevel marketing, new economy, off-the-grid, offshore financial centre, pirate software, Ponzi scheme, Potemkin village, price stability, profit motive, reality distortion field, rolodex, Salesforce, short selling, Silicon Valley, Skype, SoftBank, sovereign wealth fund, special economic zone, Steve Jobs, Vision Fund, WeWork

Marsalek talked a good game, but he seemed more like the person to let others do the fighting, running in with a punch once his opponent was firmly tied to a chair. Samt had actually started with two masters at Wirecard, reporting initially to the CFO, Alexander von Knoop. What Samt liked to do with clients was give them a large box of Kinder Surprise as a personality test. If he started to see the plastic toys dotted around the office on return visits, it was a sign of a healthy workplace. He arrived one day in the Aschheim headquarters with 108 eggs each for von Knoop and Marsalek, offering them as a small token to cheer staff; everybody loves the little reminder of childhood.

ZeroZeroZero by Roberto Saviano

Berlin Wall, Bernie Madoff, call centre, credit crunch, double entry bookkeeping, Fall of the Berlin Wall, illegal immigration, Julian Assange, Kinder Surprise, London Interbank Offered Rate, Mikhail Gorbachev, new economy, open borders, planetary scale, Ponzi scheme, Ronald Reagan, Skype, Steve Jobs, uranium enrichment, WikiLeaks

During the first phase of their training the mules swallow big grapes, chunks of bananas or carrots, then condoms filled with confectionary sugar. Two weeks before departure the mule goes on a diet to regularize his digestive cycle. The mule has to eat light: to keep down the capsules, which are the size of those containers inside a Kinder Surprise Egg, you have to stick with fruits and vegetables. It takes a mule two hours to swallow the capsules and settle them in the bottom of his stomach. It hurts; it hurts a lot. So the mule paces, palpitates his stomach to make them go down, helps them along with a little Vaseline, or at most some yogurt.

Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination by Mark Bergen

23andMe, 4chan, An Inconvenient Truth, Andy Rubin, Anne Wojcicki, Big Tech, Black Lives Matter, book scanning, Burning Man, business logic, call centre, Cambridge Analytica, citizen journalism, cloud computing, Columbine, company town, computer vision, coronavirus, COVID-19, crisis actor, crowdsourcing, cryptocurrency, data science, David Graeber, DeepMind, digital map, disinformation, don't be evil, Donald Trump, Edward Snowden, Elon Musk, fake news, false flag, game design, gender pay gap, George Floyd, gig economy, global pandemic, Golden age of television, Google Glasses, Google X / Alphabet X, Googley, growth hacking, Haight Ashbury, immigration reform, James Bridle, John Perry Barlow, Justin.tv, Kevin Roose, Khan Academy, Kinder Surprise, Marc Andreessen, Marc Benioff, Mark Zuckerberg, mass immigration, Max Levchin, Menlo Park, Minecraft, mirror neurons, moral panic, move fast and break things, non-fungible token, PalmPilot, paypal mafia, Peter Thiel, Ponzi scheme, QAnon, race to the bottom, recommendation engine, Rubik’s Cube, Salesforce, Saturday Night Live, self-driving car, Sheryl Sandberg, side hustle, side project, Silicon Valley, slashdot, Snapchat, social distancing, Social Justice Warrior, speech recognition, Stanford marshmallow experiment, Steve Bannon, Steve Jobs, Steven Levy, surveillance capitalism, Susan Wojcicki, systems thinking, tech bro, the long tail, The Wisdom of Crowds, TikTok, Walter Mischel, WikiLeaks, work culture

Each week the unit sent around the “What’s Trending” report, a roundup of the site’s emerging fads. Business staff also monitored a chart of the site’s top one hundred ad earners. One odd channel started landing in the trending reports and soaring up the earnings chart. DisneyCollectorBR: “Giant Princess Kinder Surprise Eggs Disney Frozen Elsa Anna Minnie Mickey Play-Doh Huevos Sorpresa.” March 24, 2014. 14:27. “Hey, guys, Disney Collector here.” We see two dozen toy eggs of various sizes, bearing recognizable figures on their wrappers from various children’s entertainment franchises. The voice is feminine, lilting, slightly accented.

Lonely Planet Southern Italy by Lonely Planet

Airbnb, car-free, carbon footprint, centre right, clean water, Google Earth, Kickstarter, Kinder Surprise, land reform, low cost airline, mass immigration, Murano, Venice glass, Pier Paolo Pasolini, place-making, post-work, Skype, starchitect, urban decay, urban sprawl, women in the workforce

Queues here can be notoriously long so consider purchasing your ticket online in advance for fast-track entry into the chapel; it’s worth the extra €2 booking fee, especially during peak holiday periods. Chiesa del Gesù NuovoCHURCH (map Google map; %081 557 81 51; Piazza del Gesù Nuovo; h7.15am-12.45pm & 4-8pm Mon-Sat, 8am-2pm & 4-9pm Sun; mDante) The extraordinary Chiesa del Gesù Nuovo is an architectural Kinder Surprise. Its shell is the 15th-century, Giuseppe Valeriani–designed facade of Palazzo Sanseverino, converted to create the 16th-century church. Inside, piperno-stone sobriety gives way to a gob-smacking blast of baroque that could make the Vatican blush: a vainglorious showcase for the work of top-tier artists such as Francesco Solimena, Luca Giordano and Cosimo Fanzago.

Italy by Damien Simonis

active transport: walking or cycling, airport security, bike sharing, Bonfire of the Vanities, call centre, car-free, carbon footprint, centre right, clean water, company town, congestion charging, dark pattern, discovery of the americas, Frank Gehry, haute couture, high-speed rail, illegal immigration, Kickstarter, Kinder Surprise, large denomination, low cost airline, Murano, Venice glass, pension reform, period drama, Peter Eisenman, Pier Paolo Pasolini, retail therapy, Skype, spice trade, starchitect, sustainable-tourism, trade route, urban planning, urban sprawl, women in the workforce

Eschewing the modern penchant for junk food, this once-powerfulcity-state has redirected its energy into showcasing the fine art of real cooking, with fresh ingredients plucked from within spear-throwing distance of your restaurant table. Gastronomically, the town is famous for its Ferrero Rocher chocolate factory (Kinder Surprises and Nutella), white truffles and aged wines – including the incomparable Barolo, the Ferrari of reds. All becomes clearer at the annual truffle fair and the equally ecstatic vendemia (grape harvest). Alba’s fertile larder, the vine-striped Langhe Hills, radiate out from the town like undulating vegetable gardens replete with grapes, hazelnut groves and fine wineries.