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Prevention? They've got it covered guardian.co.uk

Stop dressing so provocatively, ladies, and you won't be buried under the rubble.

At least that's the "wisdom" being dished out by Iranian cleric Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi, who claims that scantily clad women are the reason his turbulent country is so prone to earthquakes, according to the Guardian.

"Many women who do not dress modestly ... lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which increases earthquakes," he told Iranian reporters following a prediction that the city of Tehran will collapse in a violent quake.

The only thing that's shaky here, it seems, is Sedighi's logic. Is this guy completely off his Richter scale?

Good things in Small packages Designboom.com

You'll never look at an electrical box the same way again, if you ever bothered to begin with. Evol, a Berlin-based street artist, has turned the bulky things into mini apartment buildings by pasting them with a window scape. His mini-city extends to tree planters and dumpsters around Berlin, too. Talk about rocking the Eastern Bloc.

Big debate stylelist.com

"It's not such a good thing to show plus-size because it's not really physically healthy and not always flattering to fashion."

Blogger Garance Doré stoked controversy this week after weighing in on fashion's curvy-model moment. But Doré is no champion of the waif either, telling the Huffington Post she only meant that voluptuous girls should walk alongside underfed models.

Way to eat your words, Garance, hopefully with a hearty helping of gravy.

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