Culture Buzz Cramming for that Western Civ final? Here's a video that shows the changing borders from 1000 A.D. - 2003. There! Now your studying is done and you can read BuzzFeed without feeling guilty. [Editor's Note: the video has been taken down from YouTube for a copyright claim; we're trying to find a new version for you!]
Culture Buzz Color Forecast tracks the colors being worn in Europe's fashion capitals in real time and let's you know what's totally in right now. Check out this video of how it works and make sure to keep up with the forecast here. (via laughingsquid.com).
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In France. Sorry American ladies, but if you want strange artistic inspiration to shed a few pounds, you’re going to have to move.
Europe is super hot on the BuzzFeed Network right now. Here's all the best viral buzz on Europe.
This new set of ignorance and bias was originally published on a Croatian website. A better title for the top image would be “How An Idiot In Eastern Europe Thinks The USA Views Europe”. (via 9gag.com)
Culture Buzz London-based designer Yanko Tsvetkovâ's Mapping Stereotypes Project puts a humorous spin on how we view the world around us. Visit his site to see more maps of european and world stereotypes. (via)
Spain's Party Alert System is now stuck at code red thanks to this video. (via pinkisthenewblog.com)
Science Buzz A never before seen strain of aggressively virulent E. coli, possibly a mutant combination of two existing strains, is being blamed for at least 18 deaths and 1,600 cases of illness in Europe. The outbreak was originally thought to have originated in Spanish cucumbers (an accusation from Germany which is vehemently denied by Spain), triggering quarantines and bans of all European produce.
What's that boot-shaped country called again? In response to an earlier post, here is the opposite view.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/magazine/06Soccer-t.htm...
In Europe, a cutting-edge talent factory trains elite soccer players starting at age 7.
Oh look, Marge took a little vacation. I've always heard that Bretagne is particularly lovely in the summer.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100410/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia...
Poland's president and 96 others — including the army chief of staff, the navy chief commander, the head of the national bank — were killed as their plane crashed while trying to land in Russia. Lech Kaczynski and the many other national figures were en route to the 70th anniversary of the massacre in Katyn, where thousands of Polish officers were murdered by Soviet secret police in 1940.
New favorite Furry! There's plenty more where this came from, including Ladybear performing karaoke!!!
Music Buzz Unless you were introduced to this baby popstar in your middle school French class like I was, you might not know of Jordy Lemoine — the world's youngest singer ever to have a #1 single. At four, his song 'Dur Dur D'etre un Bébé' ('It's Hard Being a Baby') hit the charts, leading not only to charges child exploitation, but some of the most incredible live performances of all time.
An epic rant about the impact of the global economic crisis on the UK. British people sound so classy when they're mean.
Miley Cyrus's model boyfriend shows up on the cover of Electric Youth! - a homoerotic version of Bop and Tiger Beat - looking like a barely-clothed, uncomfortably vulnerable French farmhand circa 1985. “I would like to be famous one day,” reads the quote on the cover of the magazine, proving that anything can happen when your standard of fame means living in the same house as Billy Ray Cyrus.
Two artists held an exhibit in Zurich in which they sculpted the alphabet out of human excrement. Good thing a lot of the words are in English. Otherwise, we'd have been really confused…by this exhibition featuring letters made of poop.
Click on these European folks and watch their clothes magically disappear! So …nobody gets circumcised in Europe, huh?
We track the battle between left-wing and right-wing sites on important news topics. At 12:36pm on March 03, 2009. we detected breaking news about “Obama's Secret Letter To Putin Offered Deal On Missiles”. This page shows the headlines about “Obama's Secret Letter To Putin Offered Deal On Missiles” from both sides.
Tech Buzz The internet, which is basically a series of tubes, is facing a potential apocalypse today after breaking news that three of it's undersea cables were cut or damaged! The Middle East and Europe are the hardest hit right now, with the blame probably lying on something as ridiculous as a boat anchor. Welcome to 2009, everybody, where boat anchors break the internet.
Style Buzz Being shown only in France, the print ads and TV commercials for the denim company’s campaign, “We Are Animals,” are being called misogynistic and obnoxious. Hey, you know what they say: nothing sells a pair of jeans like implied rape.