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It's the best German beer commercial ever:

Are airlines' carbon offsets pointless?

I blogged about why "Ecologically misaligned market incentives have squeezed our bodies and forced us all to hurry quite needlessly -- even on holiday!!" 

When in Japan should you shake hands or bow?

The trigonometry of President Obama's bow to the Japanese Emperor illustrates why a foreigner in Japan is almost always better off shaking hands.