Articles of Note: December 2009

• Trying to raise awarness of the impact of global warming, Nepalese politicians met at Kalapattar Plateau near Mount Everest #;

• A Day In The Life of Gen Y: China #;

• Ever wondered how gender stereotypes can be more or less colorful? The Pink and Blue Projects set to sort out gender  # (via `);

• Downloading really LARGE files can be terribly burdensome, as Christian Sandvig finds #;

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• The 2009 edition of the Year in Ideas is out from the New York  Times Mag #

Here are some of the remarkable concepts mentioned there: social networks seen as foreign policy tools,  thirdhand smoke, real-time searching, the Obama effect, the greatness of good enough and the failure of fakery, random promotions, printable batteries, bicycle highways.

• New Yorker has a portfolio worth checking consisting of portraits of some of the world leaders present at a United Nations meeting in September #

And so what did the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, ask the photographer before the shutter clicked? “Platon,” he said, “make me look good.”