‘The evidence against tipping is voluminous and damning: it plunges workers into sub-subsistence wages, subjects woman servers to sexual harassment, encourages servers to deliver poor service to people of color (and old, young, and foreign people), incentivizes workers to take actions that harm the business (free drinks for big tippers!), and covers up a system of widespread criminal wage-fraud that lands disproportionately on the backs of workers who are already poor and marginalized…’

Source: Boing Boing

From the National Geographic twitter feed:

‘Monlam, the great prayer festival is being celebrated this weekend throughout the Tibetan world. Here in Labrang Monastery, novice monks (trapa), practice blowing the dungchen, the Tibetan long horn, that will be used in ceremonies and the call to prayer. The sound can be compared to the singing of elephants.’